Category: Society

  • Scoble and Israel join up the dots #AoCUK #CIPR

    Scoble and Israel join up the dots #AoCUK #CIPR

    About 100 people gathered in Google’s London campus last night to hear Robert Scoble and Shel Israel talk about concepts, ideas, experiences, trends and realities surrounding some of the themes and topics in their new book, Age of Context, published…

  • Don’t ignore social voices, Knight Frank #LostMyGiggle

    It’s always very interesting seeing how the mixture of empowered social communication, Twitter and a hashtag can totally disrupt traditional communication and command and control behaviours. We’ve seen this during the past week in two specific examples – the negative…

  • Making a difference, one conversation at a time #BAD13

    Today, in blogs big and small around the world, people are talking about human rights. It’s a topic of universal interest yet often it’s one of universal fatigue, too. You get fed up hearing about famines, wars and human suffering…

  • Filters and trust

    As we get exposed to more and more information online, two elements assume great importance – filtering in the things we want to see; and verifying those things so we trust our filtered-in information along with the purveyors of it.…

  • The difference between America and Europe

    Reshared post from The Economist: Today’s #Dailychart shows how entrepreneurship differs wildly among countries. America is an engine of innovation, as attested by the upcoming public listing of Twitter, which aims to fetch a cool $1 billion. How do other countries rank…