The Archives
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05.27.08Upcoming speaking engagementsA few announcements about speaking events I have coming up. You may be interested in them or wish to attend to hear me speak. Links to events are in the listings where available. The Art of Customer Engagement - 19 June 2008 My talk, entitled Turn on, tune in, drop out will discuss: ...the business context of participatory culture, addressing the need for organisations to reimagine themselves as their business is done more and more online. In this new world, people are engaged intellectually and given autonomy, information and knowledge is shared openly, collaboration is encouraged rather than hindered and productivity and morale ...
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05.08.08If you’re in the audience, what makes for bad manners?Interesting post at the Ragan blog about what amounts to bad manners when you're in the audience. Here's my take. If you're in the audience at a seminar I'm giving or at a conference I'm presenting at, I'd prefer it if you were paying attention. I guess I figure you're wasting someone's money if you're not. That said, these days, many people are getting very good at continuous partial attention, and what might look to some as not paying attention at all, could be quite the opposite. I know I can pay attention to a speaker, tweet, read related material on ...
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05.07.08I am an Insightory “Featured Expert”Insightory , a newish social tool for "sharing management insights" contacted me a little while back to ask if they could use me as a "Featured Expert". It's something they renew every few days and which they use to highlight the work of someone they consider has: Deep experience in a particular field of management Done interesting or innovative work Displayed consistent thought leadership (speaking, writing, blogging or similar "thought leadership" role) Naturally, I was flattered to be asked. Since they'd already featured my friend, Scott ...
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05.02.08Cognitive heatsinksLike a lot of other folks, I'm really excited and inspired by Clay Shirky's Web 2.0 Expo talk (video here). As usual for Clay, it's engaging, informed, informative and has you thinking "what if" just moments in. And as usual, it's full of great quotes like: Desperate Housewives essentially functioned as a kind of cognitive heat sink, dissipating thinking that might otherwise have built up and caused society to overheat. Gold. And he does it every time he speaks. I still chuckle every time I recall his talk at Supernova 2007 on changing the dynamics of business and his great line when discussing ...
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09.08.07Office 2.0 - Hear me roarMy brain is very full ¾ of the way through Office 2.0. There are some amazing things being discussed here, and I think there's enough of a business presence (rather than vendors and those who live in the Web 2.0 echo chamber) for some changes to take place. There are also some astounding new products on show - almost too many to take in in any sensible way. I've just given my presentation - I am Knowledge Worker 2.0 - Hear me roar which went really well. I got some great feedback from the audience and lots of ...
