This article was originally posted in Future of Sex magazine. Social gaming giant Zynga, purveyor of Facebook games such as CityVille and FarmVille, is making things a little racier with its latest product The Ville, launched today. As the video shows, users can build the “home of your dreams” and invite their Facebook friends over […]
Sorry, Grant Thornton, I think your instinct is very likely wrong. I saw this advertisement (also in French and Flemish) in Brussels-Midi station when I was recently passing through. Grant Thornton claims to have an ‘instinct for growth’. For some reason it seems to have an instinct (it appears without any evidence) that expanding into […]
Yesterday morning I appeared on the Sunrise national breakfast program together with science broadcaster Dr Karl Kruszelnicki, being interviewed about the big ideas and new technologies that will change our lives. The video clip is below. The four ideas that I pointed to were:
Gerd Leonhard is a greatly valued friend and colleague in our shared calling as media futurists, and work together in The Futures Agency. As part of our intent of working more together in both public forums and with leading media organizations we are announcing a free webinar: The Future of Media: Mobile, Social, Cloud… and […]
Last night I was fortunate to be at a dinner with innovation strategist Charles Leadbeater, hosted by Martin Stewart-Weeks of Cisco. One of the conversations we had together with Hugh Morrow was about the potential of gamification of weight loss and personal savings. Diet and savings habits aggregated across a society have a massive impact […]
I was recently in Rome for 24 hours to run a workshop for the senior technology executives of a global Fortune 50 company. While I was in town I was keen to try to catch up with collaboration and new media expert Robin Good, who I have known online for many years but never met, […]
Today’s ‘Fairfax of the Future’ announcement from Australia’s second largest newspaper publisher Fairfax is massive news in Australia, and very significant in a global media context. It has been a busy media day for me, so far doing interviews for SBS World News and ABC24 News as well as a number of radio stations, due […]
Over the last 9 weeks I’ve been on a plane every week, have been on 26 flights or inter-city trains, and delivered 28 keynotes or workshops across 8 countries. This week I will be at home all week :-). I have long had the concept of “the right amount of travel”, that is enough but […]
I will be presenting a free webinar on June 14 at 11am US EDT, organized by Ketchum’s Global Media Network. Webinar details are here or you can register directly here. In the wake of the launch of my book Getting Results From Crowds, one of the fields I am spending the most time on is […]
I have just participated via Skype in a BBC Creative Collisions debate in Northern Ireland, centered around how the media landscape is changing, and the implications of the rise of open innovation. Some of the comments from the locals involved in the debate were that while there is ample talent and innovation in Northern Ireland, […]
