Four Social Media Conversations

This is a very pretty bit of diagramming: The conversation prism, by Brian Solis and JESS3.

What is shown here is simply different verticals and environments in which social media conversation takes place: its pretty small, so you cant really see, but you can download the image bigger on their homepage – or buy a poster [...]

Looking Cool…

I was told this morning by one of the professors at my University that she’d used me as an example in a seminar…as ‘an organisational ethnographer who dressed appropriately to study advertising agencies and creative businesses’…and told me ‘not to be offended’. I don’t think I was; it’s a compliment in a way I suppose [...]

Define the Space: It’s all about Context #1

This is a ‘fail’ from failblog: illustrating nicely how ads are defined by their context…

Flow: Interpretations of Mihály Csíkszentmihályi’s Creativity & Flow…

“Flow is the mental state of operation in which the person is fully immersed in what he or she is doing by a feeling of energized focus, full involvement, and success in the process of the activity”.
According to Csíkszentmihályi, flow is this state achievable in work or play, characterized by the following seven requisites:
1. One [...]

Managing the Creative Process: Boundaries, Ownership and Expectations

This is a paper I’m writing at the moment. Was looking for any thoughts.
Specifically it looks at managing the Creative Process with regard to Boundaries, Ownership and Expectations. That is, ‘boundaries’ between individuals / disciplines / strategies / organisations / cultures, and the ‘boundary objects’ linking them; ‘ownership’ as in how vested individuals or organisations [...]

More Cadbury’s Bollocks might raise an eyebrow or two: I don’t like it

Yes, it’s funny and weird and quirky and different and gets people talking and you can love it or hate it and whatever. I don’t think that I get to say anything, without being branded a hypocrite though, seeing as I’m blogging about it. It’s just that I think I want [...]