Category: people
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Fanfare For The Common Brand
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I’m fresh out of presenting the below for the first time at the latest intake of Squared. For the last two years, I’ve presented various iterations of ‘Are Brands Fracking The Social Web?’, but over the last month or so, I realised that there’s something in the water around the relationship between the brand idea,…
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Fighting Fires or Lighting Fires?
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This flew by my eyes yesterday (HT Mark Storm)… The bit I’m most drawn to is the pithiness of definition – it’s by Kenneth Mikkelsen: If Management is about Fighting Fires, Leadership is about Lighting Fires It’s so easy to get drawn into fighting fires. The machinations of the organisation around us make it easier…
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A Flow Guide For Field Trips
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I’ve been using the Flow Engines principles a lot since late August, when it arose from the Culture Mapping blog project. It’s certainly the most developed, fully realised tool that came out of that burst of work. Anyway, I used it last week to write a general guide for people to run field trips. I’m…
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Interview with Beth Kolko
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As part of the preparation for running the third lab of the Stirling Crucible at the University of Stirling, I spoke to Beth Kolko, Professor of Human Centered Design & Engineering at the University of Washington, about an Experiment called Hackademia, which is “an attempt to infect academic pursuits with a hacker ethos and challenge…
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Interview with Nell Haynes
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As part of the preparation for running the third lab of the Stirling Crucible at the University of Stirling, I spoke to Dr Nell Haynes, one of the team who’s working on the Global Social Media Impact Study, about their approach to recording and sharing the project as they go. It’s very interesting specifically in…
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2014 – Fracking The Social Web
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It’s always a pleasure to speak at Squared, and today I was back with a new version of the ‘Are Brands Fracking The Social Web’ talk. As always, shared for everyone, and all thoughts, builds and ideas around the topic are most welcome: just click here to see the presentation.
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Continuity vs Copying: a dialogic conversation with Martin Weigel
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You might remember, dear reader, that earlier this week I told you about this dialogic experiment I was doing with Contagious? Yes? Well, the first response piece to my original provocation has gone up, from Martin Weigel over at W+K in Amsterdam (Martin’s blog over the last year in particular has been a constant source…
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Forget Tone of Voice; Find A Certain Tone of Action
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I had the pleasure of speaking at the first ever Folksy Summer School a couple of weeks ago, to their burgeoning community of Designer-Makers about brands and ideas around how to talk about themselves. The video’s just gone up here: John V Willshire at Folksy Summer School from Folksy on Vimeo. When writing the talk,…
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Maeda’s Leadership Map
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Just stumbled across this – a map that’s probably based on the same software platform as Tuneglue, called ‘powershop’ apparently – in John Maeda’s TED talk on Leadership from last year: He talks about the importance in Leadership in finding connections between two things (and specifically groups, people and the like) which aren’t immediately…
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Are Brands Fracking The Social Web? – V2.0
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I’m really enjoying talking at Squared every quarter. Notionally it could be the same talk, but what I’m finding is that it’s a question I’m asking out loud all of this year, and so as I get a better grip on the question and its many answers, the presentation changes. And gets better, hopefully. I’m…
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The Do Lectures: notes from a field
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I was lucky enough to be at The Do Lectures Start Up the other weekend. There are many stories to be shared from that another day, especially around the ‘start up bit’. But for now, I thought I’d share this – it’s my notes from the weekend’s speakers, which I captured on Artefact Cards rather…
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