For the people, by the people?
Johnnic Communications have launched a new 'citizen media' site called reporter.co.za. The website is inviting people to become active participants in broadening the scope of news by reporting on issues that affect their lives. reporter.co.za will be completely...
Google Video should go back in the box
Google just launched the beta version of Google Video. It is in beta, and so we can expect something less than the real deal, but having looked at this beta site, one hopes it's light years away from the real deal. I only have iTunes to compare Google's offering with,...
Narrative: high concept and touch
Dan Pink, in his book, A Whole New Mind (get it at Amazon.com or Kalahari.net), captures nicely what relevance Story (which I prefer to call Narrative) has in our economy. In my own words: The information age was all about managing facts. The connection economy (or as...
An Idea: Customisable Music (and movies)
In a previous post, I explained that I collect Christmas music. One of my favourite songs of this year's crop comes from a compliation album (WOW Christmas - get it at Kalahari.net), and is "Little Drummer Boy", as done by Audio Adrenaline. AudioA is an alternative...
The Brussel Sprout and Christmas – an eBay parable
"All the world's a stage" eBay, the world's online auction place, continues to provide amazing 21st century "village square" stories. There are a number of people selling left over, or completely uneaten, Christmas meals. One item caught my attention: a single Brussel...
Ten practical marketing trends for 2006
The Wise Marketer today, gives a summary of Foxhound's top ten marketing trends for the year ahead. Read it here. Its a short read that will get you thinking, and prove again that the focus is moving to connections, rather than impressions. I have listed the headings...
It's tough at the top
I listened to the Vice-Chairman of Johnson and Johnson, Christine Poon, at a GIBS evening a few months ago. While cleaning up my office for the onslaught of 2006 I came accross some stats she talked to during her 60 minutes with us. It illustrates that even when you...
It’s tough at the top
I listened to the Vice-Chairman of Johnson and Johnson, Christine Poon, at a GIBS evening a few months ago. While cleaning up my office for the onslaught of 2006 I came accross some stats she talked to during her 60 minutes with us. It illustrates that even when you...
People Trends for 2006
Watson Wyatt Worldwide (NYSE:WW) is a global human capital and financial management consulting firm. The firm specializes in employee benefits, human capital strategies, technology solutions, and insurance and financial services and has 6,000 associates in 30...
Store layout for Gen X
We all know why milk and bread is found at the back of food retail store? It's because they're two things that everyone needs more often that almost anything else. By putting it at the rear of the store you get 'dragged' past hundreds of other items to tempt you to...
Outside of effective media strategies where else do monopolies hurt
South Africa is home to only one fixed-line-operator. It's name is Telkom and it's enjoyed this status for long enough to have generated a fair amount of frustrated customers. Screw the public! Do we care? NO! Why? Look how much money we're making! As from today, I'll...
Looking to Tomorrow – 2005 and Beyond
Synthesized from the futureneering work of the storytellers and organisational alchemists in the Business Intelligence Unit (BIU) of TomorrowToday.biz. - http://www.tomorrowtoday.biz During December and January every year, magazines and websites are filled with...
Black Marketing
Not like the name suggests, this is a strand of marketing that is being borne out of how the Smoking Co's have been cornered by global health legislation (and soon too the breweries!). Now that they're no longer able to utlise the 'tried and tested' marketing...
“Podcast” declared ‘word of the year’
This could be seen as another post giving you amunition for why you need an iPod for Christmas, or it could be an illustration of just how important social software has become. The New Oxford American Dictionary has declared 'podcast' as word of the year, and will add...
"Podcast" declared 'word of the year'
This could be seen as another post giving you amunition for why you need an iPod for Christmas, or it could be an illustration of just how important social software has become. The New Oxford American Dictionary has declared 'podcast' as word of the year, and will add...
Finishing Well – Boomers want to leave a legacy
I was recently recommended a book that sounds fantastic (its on my Christmas stocking filler list). Its "Finishing Well" by Bob Buford (Integrity Publishers, ISBN: 159145395X). (Purchase it online at Amazon.com or Kalahari.net). It is written from a Christian...
Why you need an iPod for Christmas?
I just had a birthday. My amazing wife bought me an iPod Video. It replaces my iPod mini that's given me hours of amazingness. I used my iPod mini for mostly travelling by plane to escape the mind-numbing experience of airline travel. As I discovered PodCasts I spent...
For the hang of it
It's a question I get asked often. Sure, the Web is evolving into a platform for ordinary people to share information with just about anyone who'll look or listen, but why put information out there if you're not making money off it? Why have a personal blog if people...
The dawn of the iPub
I'm always on the look out for new ways people are viewing and using the world (paradigm shifts). In a world of discontinuous change they're happening all around us. It's in these spaces that we see new innovations as people's minds are opened up to possibilities...
Get outta the way, here comes Google
Like me, you're probably bored of another Google 'the destroyer' story. But I found a great few paragraphs on Wired tonight outlining some of Google's expansion and a brief summary of what they're up to and who's in trouble if they manage to Googalize the world. Click...