Tag Archive for "innovation"

Closing the Digital Divide

by Jye on May 28, 2010 with 3 Comments

Pranav Mistry: The thrilling potential of SixthSense technology Through innovation in technology we can be more connected to our physical world, we can be more connected.  Rather than being machines, sitting in front of other machines. Swankins passed this video on. And it really blew me away.  Forget about tablets, iPads, surfaces for a while - and think about all this.  It's already miles ahead of what we're considering new releases. To imagine this technology is incredible. To build it is genious.

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Vibewire: FastBREAK – Innovation presentations

by Jye on May 08, 2009 with 1 Comment

Today I gave my presentation for Vibewire Youth event FastBreak Breakfast, which was coordinated between Vibewire and Gavin Heaton (Obi-Wan).There were over 70 people in the room to hear my thoughts around creativity, Scott Drummond talk about connections, Isadore Biffin (and oh my fuck was she a passionate speaker!) talk about collaboration, my new favourite speaker Elias Bizannes who discussed true “commercialisation” and the rock himself Matt Moore who dropped the F bomb of the presentations. Then we got to chat with all the people in the room under our topic headings. But, my 4 minutes of spotlight has been overshadowed with ...

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Elements of Story

by Jye on Feb 26, 2009 with 4 Comments

Attending The Creative Leadership Forum's latest event The Art of 360 Degree Presentation I was given the opportunity to hear some great insights from Matt Moore on Innoecture. A regular at coffee mornings, I was soon enthralled as he continued through some very engaging demonstrations of story telling and how we percieve story telling. Some quick points from my notebook: Stories allow us to make sense of the world - that is why they engage us best, it's a familiar medium Elements of a story: characters, setting, events and an emotional component Not all stories are 'epic' stories (nor should they be) Fundamental for the ...

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AGSM Rountable: Creativity and Innovation – What does it mean to you?

by Jye on Feb 25, 2009 with 1 Comment

"The word innovation, still in these very hard and disturbing times appears almost daily in the media. There are 360million references to innovation on Google and on my Google Daily RSS feed I receive notice of new books and articles released daily globally on the topic. And now I get emails daily suggesting that innovation will be the saviour of the current economic times. To-day, the word innovation in appears almost daily in the media.  Every job advertisement talks about the applicant having the need to be creative and innovative. It appears this thing called innovation is a common everyday occurrence. ...

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A question: are all our yesterdays now our todays?

by Jye on Feb 02, 2009 with 1 Comment

Guest post: Nick Tyler Are all our yesterdays now our todays? It seems that a lot of what we built and aspired to failed through a lack of Broadband and PC power or bubbles bursting. Now we have broadband penetration, PCs grunted up and internet here there and everywhere. And it has made a lot of what we dreamt of, what we made and failed with suddenly re-invented and now works. Have we so forgotten what has been done?  Thanks to that bursting bubble, that was is old is now new. That is not to say that it is not done better. Or that the ...

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Stephen Collins, AKA Trib, Founder, acidlabs

by Jye on Jan 23, 2009 with 1 Comment

Stephen Collins (aka Trib) is an exceptional voice for the digital media industry.  His straight forward attitude and down to earth approach to real business development and social media strategies make him a very influence profile in Australia. Follow him on Twitter and be inspired, read his blog and learn. Describe what you do (in your own words): It's probably best described as strategic communications advice. It's a bit of all of: future-gazing a lot of research, writing and investigation into clients' businessand how they communicate - both internally an across the wall to their clients, customers and stakeholders a lot of talking and listening ...

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A Changing Audience

by Jye on Sep 23, 2008 with 6 Comments

The readers of A Digital Perspective are growing each day, and so is my Twitter following.  As my audience changes on Twitter I've become much more focused with Tweets, and much more mindful of what I'm saying. I've been careless in the past, and I apologise. The audience is encouraging. It's cleansing. And it's making me really start to consider my thoughts, actions and broadcasts. It's making me think smarter, push the envelope and look for new ways to do things. This is change - this is good.

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