by JAK | Jun 16, 2014 | big ideas, industry futures
On Wednesday this week we have Matt Mullenweg in Auckland for a flying visit. Matt is CEO of Automattic which is the company behind WordPress. As the co founder of WordPress Matt has also learned a huge amount about how to grow a distributed business which is global...
by JAK | Jun 15, 2014 | big ideas, TEDx
TEDxAuckland 2014 event will be held on August 16th this year. The theme is Ascending – “a celebration of resilience, courage amidst adversity and the achievements of individuals who are making a better world.” This will be the 5th TEDxAuckland event...
by JAK | Jun 6, 2014 | big ideas, industry futures, video
New Zealand is a small snow covered rock south of Fiji that depends on its clean, green “100% pure” marketing slogan to pretend that we value our part of the planet. It is very clear that our politicians are too busy with the sophistry of their own...
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...
