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Idea Space… DIY!

I love the idea of Idea Paint. The 1st thing I love is the site. When you go watch the upload counter and stop it to see the words! 00=limitations or zero limitations, very cool! The second thing I like is the institutionalized idea of breaking the rules and thinking out loud all over the [...]

Does a University need a Chief Experience Officer?

I spend a lot of time reading business publications and blogs. If you put in a day digesting Seth Godin, Tom Peters, ChangeThis and then throw in IDEO, Diego Rodriguez and for good measure Mark Hurst you not only have a very sound reading list on business, creativity and leadership but also a question on your [...]

To be young and foolish!

I often ask myself if it was a perfect world how would I build a team to actually make change happen! And I keep coming back to the idea of being young and foolish! The people who we charge with making change, on the whole, are old, tired, jaded and pretty much worn out as [...]

Content is king!

Last night on Nightline I had a great conversation about content syndication! I am not talking RSS but how you can get content that is market ready into the market! Imagine that academic paper that can be reformatted and become a valuable business piece. How does this effect you? Are you a person who writes? [...]

Pick up the phone!

I think, just maybe, with all our text, tweets, SMS, MMS, facebook, Qik, blogs… we have forgotten how nice it is to just pick up a phone and tell someone something, anything! I think, just maybe, we are hiding behind technology when it comes to communication today! The old voice on the phone can be [...]

How to start!

We are bombarded with suggestions about what is the matter with the world and what we might want to do about it. We are buried in possibility really! After watching TED 2010, no I was not there but really did wanted to be, I realized that part of our personal problem with activating ideas t [...]

Thinking 2010

I stumbled on this nice little piece from TOM PETERS today. We must destroy “departments”–and create aggressive, imaginative, entrepreneurial Professional Service Firms in their stead. Two words that we need to infuse into our organizations in the New Year, education through plumbing, IMAGINATION and ENTREPRENEURIAL. We are living in a changed world, it is no [...]

The what have you published mentality

Today I was talking to a group of academics about convergent media. What I learned, to my surprise, is that even though I practice convergent media, see my nightline site, this does not count because I have not invested the painful time to write about it for some redundant academic journal. I have even taught [...]

Journalists need retraining, sort of!

Today more than ever journalists need to be retrained on how to connect their stories to their multiple audiences. The problem faced by journalists today is very simply that their occupation is transforming and they do not know how to transform along with it. When we academics talk about the changes taking place to journalism [...]

The Art of Travel.

I have just arrived back in Dubai from a 6 day trip to Canada, yes that was 15.5 hours in the air and a 9 hour time change for me. And don’t let me forget to remind you that we transited through Europe, where we did not stay over, so the door to door trip [...]

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