What a day! I’ve just arrived home from Sydney’s Think Big Forum at ANZ Stadium… I was invited to ‘keynote speak’ at the Forum when I was in Beijing and I decided to change my flights to be included on the speaker list. The way it was put to me was simple, “It’s a business [...]
Think Big Forum – quick post-talk notes
September 3rd, 2008 · 1 Comment
Tags: · Australia 2020, change agent, Dell, E-Myth, futurist, google, Ideastorm, innovation, Innovation Programs, Kylie Kwong, NSW Business Chamber, The Clean Plumber, Think Big Forum
Category: Change Agency
Henderson & Horning – a lesson in stakeholder relations
August 14th, 2008 · 3 Comments
A woman’s legs in a pair of fishnet stockings is being used to show how out of touch the management/marketing teams over at Henderson and Horning really are. Well, the Henderson Horning team (a real estate company, apparently) no doubt think they’ve got their market just right, but if Wade and Gavin are anything to [...]
Tags: · activism, blogging, change agent, communication strategy, henderson horning, public relations, social media, stakeholder relations
Category: Corporate craziness
Hey Visa: Trashing a neighbourhood with your brand is not good marketing.
July 29th, 2008 · 10 Comments
Beijing’s “Nanluogu Xiang” Hutong (alley) is a bustling mix of stores, bars and eateries… A favourite of ex-pat’s and locals alike. At night, the alley is illuminated by the lights from within the restaurants, street lamps and bright red Chinese lanterns. But tonight, all of this has been washed out in a sea of tacky [...]
Tags: · 2008 Olympics, Beijing, change agent, china, environment, Selfish Corporations, Visa
Category: Corporate craziness
Big Ideas – James Harkin’s book – plus, what are your big ideas?
July 25th, 2008 · No Comments
Scanning the “Media” section at Blackwell’s bookshop is one of my favourite things to do in Oxford. Sure, I love the web, but being able to scan and access books in real-time using my eyes and hands is something I still enjoy, while I’m sure it seems a little quaint to many of my techno-futurist [...]
Tags: · Badvertising, Bare Branches, big ideas, Black Swan Theory, Boomergeddon, Brand America, change agent, Citizen Journalism, Collective Action Problem, Compassion Fatigue, Cosmopolitan, Crowdsourcing, Crunchy Conservatism, Curation Nation, Declinology, definitions, Democratization, Digital Maoism, Digital Mapping, Electronic Frontier Justice, Flash Mobs, futurist, futurology, Generation Gap, Good Business, Gotcha Politics, Happiness, Incentivization, Infomania, james harkin, Libertarian Paternalism, Life-Caching, Maturialism, Muscular Liberalism, Neurotheology, Peer-to-Peer Surveillance, Pension Fund Capitalism, Philoanthrocapitalism, Playtime, Positive Liberty, Pre-heritance, Proletarian Drift, Protirement, Public Value, Regretful Loners, Resilience, Slacktivism, Smart Mobs, Social Jet Lag, social networking, Social Physics, Soft Power, Status Anxiety, Synthetic Worlds, The Advocacy Revolution, The Cosmetic Underclass, The Cyborg, The Economy of Prestige, The European Empire, The Experience Economy, The Free Rider, The Long Tail, The Menaissance, The New Puritans, The New Utopisanism, The Paradox of Choice, The Precautionary Principle, the Prisoner's Dilemma, The Singularity Thesis, The Support Economy, The Time Economy, The Tipping Point, Transhuminism, True Cost Economics, Urban Gaming, Urban Villages, Virtual Anthropology, Virtual Politics, War Porn, Wild Card Theory, Worst-Case Scenarios, Yeppies
Category: Communication and connection
China Internet Censorship Index – Scoring Chinese Internet Freedom
July 23rd, 2008 · 2 Comments
Amnesty International’s campaign for China to set a ‘New Human Rights Record’ is gaining momentum in the run-up to the Olympics. The NGO is scoring Chinese internet freedom via an index (see below). 100% represents total internet freedom, the current figure is just above 30%. This is from the Amnesty CICI website: “This chart shows [...]
Tags: · amnesty, censorship, change agent, china, freedom, ngo, olympics
Category: Change Agency
