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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? Do you have [...]

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 fast, effective, [...]

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 is the [...]

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 longer on the [...]

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 and continue [...]

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 we love [...]

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 was [...]

Food for Thought.

TEDxDubai and TED.COM in general have provoked me to spend a lot of time thinking about how we communicate about the issues around us that we need to deal with now!
The short and simple answer is we do not communicate well about the micro issues that can/will and do impact upon our very lives.
Maybe we [...]

Old School Idea made new.

I have been thinking a lot about how it is that some ideas take off and others seems to sink before they have had a chance.
Of course the question of why some ideas work and others do not is the fuel for a whole shelf of books on innovation, management and leadership.
After reading HOT SPOTS [...]

NUDGE and the A+++ Example, TED.

Every so often you happen upon a book that has the potential to change the way you do something, maybe everything.
If you are like me you can list those books on the back of your hand.
NUDGE, by Dr. Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein, is one of those provocative great books.

Who hasn’t asked themselves, “how can [...]

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