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The Australian Effect and other perceptive influencers
Posted by jayvanzyl in 10 Uncontaminated Generation, Exploring the World, Personal Ramblings on March 30, 2009
Aussie bikie gangs are causing trouble in Sydney. Hoons race around having accidents on public roads. The Wallabie’s are working on their game. Breakie is what you have to eat in the morning. … language …
F1 Practice (short video) The Formula 1 race yesterday delivered some interesting results and was a great event to attend in Melbourne. Jenson Button won the race after an amazing performance. Richard Branson’s luck in top form: he signed the Brawn team the day before, and they delivered the goods. Button earned more points in this race than all the races put together over the previous two years. There are over 500 groups on Facebook dedicated to F1 and related activity.
Check this word: Facebookemon
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The term used for the collection of people, on your Facebook friends list, that you don’t actually talk to or know in real life. Related to popular tv program and game pokeamon, where the aim is to collect as many diffrent Pocket Monsters as possible.
Dave – “Hey, my friends collection is getting up to two hundred”
Steve – “How many do you really know? go admit it, most of them are Facebookemon”
John – “Gotta catch em all, gotta catch em all”
- from urbandictionary
All you can see are people on their notebooks catching up on their Facebook detail; what a sight. So, how many of those people in conversations are real? Do we care if all we need is to be connected and get feedback?
I had a great trip to Australia and am currently sitting in the Sydney airport after a strike was announced this morning. And, without any warning. There is no assistance in the airport and the ground staff don’t know what’s going on, so the flight is delayed for a while. I did see some “blue collar recruitment” people running around… Every now and then a voice comes over the microphone just saying “delays are to be expected” – and that’s it! Maybe someone on Facebook will know and I don’t care if I know them or not, does this make me a facebookemon?
Presentation: Built to Thrive and the human innovation imperative
Posted by jay in 10 Uncontaminated Generation, Making Memes (my presentations and workshops) on October 30, 2008
Sustainable and successful organisations explore new frontiers of competitiveness as a matter of doing business. Reframed thinking results in new business configurations being tested and uncharted territories unearthed. This results in businesses renewal activity that impacts the human component of the business directly.
Human Innovation is used as a driver to deliver new growth platforms. What are the new emerging practices of innovation? Can we learn from the history of innovation? How are successful companies using innovation to compete in this fast changing world? Where does human innovation fit in the new business?
This presentation covers four key areas when looking at Human Innovation:
- Capturing value by using emergent Social Networks
- Understanding the Human Eco-system by reading collaborative participative cues
- The drive towards Transparency creates new opportunities
- Forget about talent we need to focus on Managing Genius
These critical questions will be answered through case studies and insights into the latest innovation findings.
The situation trap
Posted by jay in 03 Business Philosophy, 10 Uncontaminated Generation on April 25, 2008
Clayton M. Christensen calls is disruption. Abernathy and Clark calls it radical innovation. But, at the end of the day industries and companies find themselves in a situation trap. How can organziations reshape alternate models while the existing ones are successful?
We are all trapped in a terribly organized and immersive set of circumstances that cloud our thinking and stop us from seeing the future for what it could be. People often describe their situations as if they have nothing to do with the potential outcomes and future potential achievements that might turn them into great innovators or leaders. We need to have very deliberate and directed thinking initiatives that can assist us in breaking loose from our situation trap. These types of thinking activities are called reframing.
It is not just about how we think about the future, but how we recall the past. The past, and history as we know it, is hardly ever recorded objectively. Even our thoughts and memories of times gone by, are shaped around our thinking of the time, our situation trap. Getting our minds right to accept the plethora of possibilities presented to us throughout our lifetimes, is where reframing takes affect. We need to have the skills and capabilities to renew and rethink our skills and capabilities. Now, this is where higher levels of thinking can really help you.
Case of Standard Bank: social media news on the go
Posted by jay in 09 Economies of Scope, 10 Uncontaminated Generation on April 9, 2008
Standard Bank has created a social news platform for their Pro20 series. It has the works; video, photos and the ability to make comments. Check this comment:
“By including an innovative social media strategy in this year’s Standard Bank Pro20 marketing campaign we believe we’ll reach a wider audience. More importantly, social media channels like blogs, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube mean that the supporters can actively get involved and create their own content.†– Bellinda Edge, Senior Manager, Direct and Online Marketing, Standard Bank
Looking good! It is a great step for banks to enter this field as people often become critical (or over-critical) about the implementation of social media concepts. Leaving it up to an open audience to rank and rate videos, pics and other media related artifacts can definitely win you some points with the “socialists”. The concern in South Africa is that the uptake of social networks by the mature individual (well, over 30/40′s ;- ) is still slow. They do however become great spectators while others (the younger ones) participate.
Banks like Macquarie has a different take on media where they use a controlled environment called Macquarie Digital. Well, it is different in that Standard Bank has launched their social media initiative in the context of sport. The concept of social media press releases is a recent phenomena and still needs some time to settle down and find its place in the overcrowded media landscape.
The Future of Media Report 2007 is a must-read as it provides great insights into the media landscape. Look on page 12 for some more information on the Macquarie Media business. The report also unveils that personalization is one of the major drivers of advertising value.
Innovation journalism driving epistasis
Posted by jay in 10 Uncontaminated Generation, 11 Information Epistasis on April 6, 2008
I’ve been following the Innovation Journalism community since 2004; the reason – David Nordfors makes a compelling point that many of the innovations today are not popularized through journalism because of the lack of innovation, but journalism on the other hand is going through radical changes with social networks, blogs, on-line news sites, etc taking market share from traditional print… The Innovation Journalism community published their previous conference proceedings on-line for those interested in downloading the material.
Here is a video of David presenting and introduction to innovation journalism:
Information sources as input into journalism, and journalism as an information source are angles now widely reasoned about (thanks to this community). But at the end of the day its about timing and relevance – you will not get the latest information in a monthly periodical where bloggers write about pressing issues daily. Profiled and contextual content aimed at your likes and dislikes, fears and pleasures, and moods are radically influencing the innovation journalism field of study.
Check out monitor110′s new information dissemination cycle.
People are more aware of developments then ever before – the challenge is that too much information creates confusion and disorientation. Who should I listen to? What is really going on around me? All of these questions influence us to want the authentic experience; the need to see it with your own eyes… And then; what about the new generation that has this digital media experience already wired into its existence.
Where are seeing not convergence or divergence in the media and journalism world, but a form of epistasis. The genetic makeup of the industry has been altered by innovations from other fields. Epistasis is the interaction between genes (industry structures that can be expressed as genes). Epistasis takes place when the action of one gene (traditional media) is modified by one or several other genes (digital revolution, social media), which are sometimes called modifier genes. The gene whose phenotype (currently expressed properties) is expressed is said to be epistatic, while the phenotype altered or suppressed is said to be hypostatic. More on this later…
Towards the synthetic white-collar worker
Posted by jay in 10 Uncontaminated Generation on March 13, 2008
This era of the web has been labeled Web 2.0 as we move towards a more interactive and integrated global platform. Thinking of the industrial era, we are reminded that the human race is OBSESSED with automation to increase productivity. We are moving out of the “industrial web” era into a more semantically connected world with bots and automated reasoning systems (Web 3.0 is on the cards, Hypercities claims to be the first…) and socially integrated networks.
Looking at the Most Innovative companies as awarded by Fast Company recently, you can see a shift towards a new kind of organization. The emergence of the social network and the business model, where monies flow in ways that are not understood – is clearly the focus-of-the-day. The concept has some challenges, but look at a company like Prosper that is now in the top50 most innovative companies. Yet, social banking did not exist a few years ago. Credit networks and social lending business modes are set to disrupt banks, especially in the micro-lending markets. We can now remove the human from the system and let the social network play its role. Reducing complexity, reducing costs possibly to the point of making it free (check Outercourtyard), simplifying the overall concept of lending?
Blue collar workers are referred to as people of the working class involved in manual labour. The blue collar revolution is a term used to describe move towards automation where the human component is not needed. White collar workers are people mostly employed in professional positions and clerical roles. There is a new form of revolution raging – one that focuses on removing the human from professional, services and other positions (a place where white collar workers could ONCE craft professions).
Check this “map of the web” and the development of the interrelationships between different communities. Obsessive automation and social network engineering are concepts set to bring us closer to the synthetic white collar worker. A NEW kind of worker that is not human…