by JAK | May 31, 2014 | big ideas, culture, development, video
One of the delightful things about being a parent of a curious child is that they keep asking the best questions of you and the other adults around them. There are many stories of that one teacher who inspired greatness and every kid ( and every adult) deserves to...
by JAK | May 22, 2014 | culture, industry futures, WordPress
Matt Mullenweg will be in Wellington and Auckland on June 17th and 18th this year. It is Matts second visit to New Zealand and five years since he came to the first ever NZ wordcamp held in Wellington in 2009. Since then WordPress has continued to grow to the point...
by JAK | Apr 27, 2014 | big ideas, culture, industry futures
Back in 2001 I was part of a grand digital futures experiment. Along with 3 others I was part of a small group named “the future” inside of a regular advertising agency and our mission was to explore the future of advertising and in our view that meant...
by JAK | Apr 25, 2014 | big ideas, culture, industry futures
Every so often on twitter I come across a sequence of tweets or ideas that seem to belong together. As humans we are wired for patterns and to make connections. This is what twitter is great for. A kind of essential randomness but at the same time an idea generator....
by JAK | Mar 31, 2014 | big ideas, crmthinking, industry futures, video
In 2011 and 2012 I taught a class on digital marketing at a local business school. Part of the fun was to explore the ways that changes in the make up of the various online marketing systems were offering up new alternative ways to reach customers by using social...
by JAK | Mar 24, 2014 | big ideas, TED, video
Last week Ed Snowden appeared at the TED 2014 conference via telepresence robot. Of the 2046 registered TED members who have rated that talk so far most of the votes were that the presentation was “courageous” and “informative”. I would...
by JAK | Feb 28, 2014 | big ideas, general business, industry futures
A week ago, Israeli equity crowd funding platform was released in Australia. It is aimed at investors who have more than $10k to put in and the tech sector. Founder Jon Medved says: “crowdfunding models are emerging for real estate and other ventures, but...
by JAK | Feb 22, 2014 | big ideas, culture, industry futures
The big news here yesterday was that local Telco ( Telecom) was changing their name to Spark. In my view the real news was the announcement of ShowMeTV which is their long awaited content play. Ever since Jason Paris joined Telecom back in August 2011 some of us have...
by JAK | Feb 3, 2014 | big ideas, development, TED, video
Back in Oct 2012 I spotted a new book by economist Dambisa Moyo on the rise of the Chinese economy and the pressure on global resources. The thesis of that book was challenging then and now in 2014 we are getting used to the idea it is the Chinese economy rather than...
by JAK | Jan 31, 2014 | big ideas, culture, TED, TEDx, video
Sheryl Sandberg wrote a book called Lean In – here is what has happened since then. I watched this clip last night and just loved hearing the update. This was recorded in Dec 2013 for TEDxWomen. An excellent clip for men (and women) to listen to and learn from....
