by JAK | Dec 23, 2008 | big ideas, industry futures, online marketing
Back in the late ’90’s the ClueTrain Manifesto* was perhaps the first widely read document on the future of marketing as a (two way) conversation. *The manifesto is still a good read today – look at the 95 theses first or over here for more...
by JAK | Dec 1, 2008 | big ideas, culture, WordPress
This past weekend I was very pleased to be at the first second* Wordcamp in Australia. There were about 60 people present over a 2 day period to share WordPress related ideas and project experiences in the local area. Among other delights, I was very pleased to hear...
by JAK | Nov 26, 2008 | industry futures, online marketing, TED
Marshall McLuhan once said that “The old medium is always the content of the new medium.” He was talking about the way that movies were being morphed into TV but that idea is more than relevant now with all kinds of media being filtered through millions of...
by JAK | Nov 20, 2008 | big ideas, general business
One of my late grandmothers lived through the 1929 Depression in New Zealand and that stayed with her all her life. She lived for 90+ years but the memories of those times were never far away and it always seemed like a pivotal moment which shaped a generation...
by JAK | Nov 19, 2008 | culture
Ahh.. its that time of the year when everyone is hanging out for a Christmas break. Summer in the Southern hemisphere is a grand time and even with the “not so positive” news about an extra ray of sunshine goes a long way. After the elections in NZ it is...
