there comes a point when tech is distributedwidely enough to make value for society and at that point you can make a decision about whether to adopt it. We are looking for ways to reconnect as we did in the past (cue photo of Breughal party). Partivipants to our culture to varying degress of importance. [...]








I found a good summary of the Panel session I did yesterday written by Scott. And Peter Kim fellow pannelist has found a couple of other summaries .








Kicking it off….








Well – better late than never, The lovely guys at SmallWorldLabs asked me to join their panel on Friday at #SXSW Hooray I am chuffed to bits. My Boss Doesn't Get It: Championing Social Media to the Man  Event added to My Schedule Friday, March 13th at 02:00 PM   PRESENTERS Nina Card – Scottrade [...]








My little SXSW tshirt campaign idea grew into a lovely flower.  Here’s how Friday – meet @yellowpark at Tuttle Club / Social Media Cafe London and chat it through.  Speak together to Dave Hughes on the phone. Monday – call Dave and place my order for T shirt; write blog post and rush round in [...]








There are more people than ever going to the SXSW Interactive festival in March – many coming from Britain.  I'd love to show all the attendees how many Brits are at SXSW this year and what great organisations are doing 'over here'.  So I had an idea. I met Dave Hughes at Amplified last year.  [...]








I got a surprising email in my in box today.  From the FCO (Foreign and Commonwealth Office) inviting me to a party during SXSW as a UK company attending the conference. Wow – I was impressed that they'd bothered to get someone in Houston to trawl the attendees list… But since you have to 'bid' [...]








I have blogged before about good and bad conference experiences .  Well have a read of this summary of SXSW from Jeremiah. He summarised four 'incidents' when the audience moved against what had been planned by the organisers as a groundswell of opinion in a new direction.   What I found interesting was the concept [...]








Peter Eckert, projekt202 Chris Bernard, Microsoft Kevin Flatt – Tribal DBB [agency of the year] Brooke Nonberg – Pixel Garrick Schmitt -Avenue A Razorfish [I came because this session is supposed to be about the intersection of the traditional agency and the new online agency and how they and clients transition]. PE – if you [...]








The dark underside of the internet – picking up all the things said about your brand online.  Within a short period of time things can go wrong and the internet can change.  But we can harness that open-ness for good.A future that is basically here, the near future.  If we all have access to all [...]