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I’ve written several times about internet bandwidth across countries and why it matters, including some interesting research back in 2007 correlating time spent on PCs with bandwidth and a more recent post on bandwidth and economic growth. Now Royal Pingdom has compiled a nice list of real connection speeds in countries around the world, using
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Today’s Media & Marketing section of the Gulf News, the largest English-speaking newspaper in the region, published our Newspaper Extinction Timeline and a brief interview with me, which is below in the print version, and also in text at the bottom of the post. In the interview I emphasise the opportunities on the other side
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After Future of Crowdsourcing Summit in San Francisco next week I will be heading on to New York, where among other things I will be at the Ketchum Global Media Network meeting where I will do the keynote and participate in a panel on the BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India, China) media landscapes. Here is the
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In my keynote speeches over the last couple of years I have often talked about how there is an increasing divergence in business performance. This theme was particularly pertinent at the height of the global financial crisis, when it was important to make people understand that there were still some companies and sectors that were
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Micro-messaging processing company Semiocast has just released research showing that Asia has overtaken North America as the biggest user of Twitter, with 37% of total tweets. Source: Semiocast In June 2009 the US still accounted for 55% of tweets, in February 2010 statistics showed that half of tweets were in languages other than English, and
At the end of every year media call on futurists to ask them what to expect in coming years, reflecting the appetite from their audiences for future thinking. One of the best ways to feed this desire is with infographics, distilling ideas into an accessible visual representation. For the last four years a Trend Blend
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One of the topics that interests me the most is the variety with how different countries and cultures engage with social media, so I was very please to see in the current issue of Harvard Business Review a great spread on Mapping the Social Internet. Click on the image below to see the central visualization
A couple of weeks ago I flew to Perth to participate in a scenario planning project for a mining company. As I struck up conversation with the person next to me, it turned out we would both be presenting and contributing to the same workshop. I was kicking off the two-day workshop with a broad
Continue reading Infographic: Used mobile phones yield 1000 times more gold than gold ore
In January I looked at the just-released Nielsen data on global social media usage, and wrote Australians are #1 globally in usage of social media: Why?. New data from Nielsen shows an updated picture from April 2010, including the proportion of people online in each country who are using social networks. Click on image for
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Today I spoke at the Critical Horizons Regional Futures conference held in Bunbury, Western Australia,which “examines emerging global trends and how they might affect regional communities in the South West Region of Western Australia”. It is fantastic that a non-urban region runs a regular event to examine its future. It is clear that the attendees
I recently spent three days in Kuala Lumpur, running a two-day workshop for a client and meeting a number of very interesting people. I hadn’t been to Malaysia for six years, so it was great to get back. I thought it was worth sharing a few top-of-mind impressions and thoughts from my brief time there.
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A commenter on my last blog post The latest country comparisons in that key economic driver: broadband speed questioned whether bandwidth does drive economic growth. While it is easy to take that for granted, there are in fact many studies that have demonstrated this fact. One of the more interesting is a Booz & Co
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I am just back from Phuket in Thailand where I facilitated the offsite session of the top 120 executives of a major professional services firm in Asia. This is staple work for me. My role at these kind of events ranges from delivering a keynote presentation that brings forcibly home the key themes of the
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Last year I kicked off a strategy session of a major infrastructure company with a presentation to the executive team on the world in 2030. This used a set of four scenarios to provoke new thinking about the world moving forward. I wrote about these in The World in 2030: Four scenarios for long-term planning
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Last week the ABC’s 7:30 Report spent the entire week looking at the drivers of Australia’s long-term future. The fourth program, on The social impact of the population boom, was an excellent examination of the diverse issues and perspectives on the implications of rapid population growth, including interviews with a diverse range of politicians, demographers,
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Well there are already plenty of opinions flying around and some excellent comments on my post yesterday Australians are #1 globally in usage of social media: Why?, which pointed to new research showing this startling result. I guess it’s time for me to offer some of my thoughts, helped along by the conversation so far.
Some very interesting data just out from Nielsen on social media usage. The headline is that people in developed countries are spending 82% more time on social media than they were one year ago. However the data point that struck my interest most is that… Australia is #1 globally in usage of social media This
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Software firm Sysomos has provided some more interesting research on Twitter usage. Using this data, we have analyzed which countries use Twitter the most on a per capita basis, shown below. I did the same analysis from Sysomos’ report in June, showing the most prominent Twitter nations on a per capita basis at the time,
Continue reading Top Twitter nations: USA, Singapore, Canada, Ireland, UK, New Zealand, Australia
When I wrote my recent article Creating the Future of Media: 4 Driving Forces, 4 Strategic Issues, 4 Essential Capabilities for Media Titles magazine, they kindly offered Future Exploration Network a full page ad in the magazine. The ad provides a nice overview of our current work with media organizations that are having to develop
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In his excellent book The Meaning of the 21st Century, James Martin asks when in human history you would most like to be alive. For me there is no question that it is now. The coming decade will be the most exciting in human history. The very challenging year of 2009 that we are preparing
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Other 2009 summary posts Top blog posts of 2009: 6 on Twitter and the media Top blog posts of 2009: Enterprise 2.0 and organizational effectiveness Top blog posts of 2009: The future Fourth in my series of summary blog posts from 2009 is selected presentations and videos from keynote speeches I’ve delivered this year (plus,
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To anticipate what will shape 2010, we need to understand the TENsions that will define the opening year of the TENsions decade. The TENsions that are most prominent will evolve during the course of the decade. However the accelerating pace of change means that TENsions will inevitably define the decade, in myriad forms. These are
This morning I gave the opening keynote at an internal leadership conference of a major Australian retailer, addressing the topic of Embracing the Future. One of the key issues for the long-term planning of any large organization is the basic demography of the country. While I spent much of my presentation looking at social change,
I was interviewed this morning on Sky Business Tech Report. Some of the things we discussed in the interview are: * How social media such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and many others change how companies engage with customers, become more efficient, and being competitive.
The Age today has an interesting article titled Outsourcing on steroids that looks at the array of online technologies that are enabling the outsourcing of small tasks and the crowdsourcing of design, innovation, and other key business functions. I’ve noticed that in just the last few weeks mainstream media coverage of online service exchanges and
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And one more! …continuing our series of translations of Social Media Strategy Framework, today we are launching the Korean edition. See the original post for the full overview of the Social Media Strategy Framework in English and compilation of the framework in 11 different languages. Click on image to download pdf Please share this with
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Last week I gave the opening keynote at IPZ2009 Interactive Marketing Summit in Istanbul. Here are my slides for my keynote on the Future of Interactive Marketing. It was a fantastic event, the fourth annual IPZ conference organized by Günseli Özen Ocako?lu and Hakan Senbir of Marketing & Management Institute, which publishes a range of
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Given the extreme popularity of our Social Media Strategy Framework, we decided to translate it into other languages. The translations have been serialized on my blog over the last couple of weeks, and here they are compiled into a single post. [UPDATE:] Korean has been added – now 12 languages! Social Media Strategy Framework in
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Continuing our series of translations of Social Media Strategy Framework, today we are launching the French edition. See the original post for the full overview of the Social Media Strategy Framework in English and compilation of the framework in 11 different languages. Click on image to download pdf Please share this with any French speakers
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Continuing our series of translations of Social Media Strategy Framework, today is Japanese. See the original post for the full overview of the Social Media Strategy Framework in English and list of translations. Click on image to download pdf Please share this with any Japanese speakers. Also be sure to let me know if you
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Continuing our series of translations of Social Media Strategy Framework, today we are launching the Portuguese edition. See the original post for the full overview of the Social Media Strategy Framework in English. Click on image to download pdf Please share this with any Portuguese speakers who would be interested. Also be sure to let
A couple of years ago Deloitte tempted John Hagel away from independent consulting to co-chair a new think-tank, now called the Deloitte Center for the Edge. I have been a long-time fan of John’s work, and find many parallels with my own path and research. The Center recently released its first major study, the Shift
Continuing our series of translations of Social Media Strategy Framework, today is Dutch. See the original post for the full overview of the Social Media Strategy Framework in English. Click on image to download pdf Please share this with any Dutch speakers who would be interested. Also be sure to let me know if you
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Continuing our series of translations of Social Media Strategy Framework, today we are launching the Spanish edition. See the original post for the full overview of the Social Media Strategy Framework in English. Click on image to download pdf Please share this with any Spanish speakers who would be interested. Also be sure to let
Continuing our series of translations of Social Media Strategy Framework, today we are launching the Russian edition. See the original post for the full overview of the Social Media Strategy Framework in English. Click on image to download pdf Please share this with any Russian speakers. Also be sure to let me know if you
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