The first four Properties of Information

What are the common threads linking decentralized marketing, word of mouth marketing, viral loops and viral networks? The short answer is it’s the same question we’ve been asking in all of our Book Rapper issues: What does it mean to be living in the Information/Knowledge/Digital Age? Typically, it shows itself as the old way and […]

Redesigning Work and Organizations for the Digital Age (4)

Redesigning Work and Organizations for the Digital Age (4) Derived from… Seth Godin, Linchpin: Are You Indispensable PreviouslyRedesigning Work and Organizations for the Digital Age (3) Conversation Traditional big-media technologies like TV, newspapers, advertising and PR promoted one-way conversations.The internet and digital technologies have replaced this with two-way conversations.This is a significant shift that requires […]

Redesigning Work and Organizations for the Digital Age (3)

Redesigning Work and Organizations for the Digital Age (3) Derived from… Seth Godin, Linchpin: Are You Indispensable PreviouslyRedesigning Work and Organizations for the Digital Age (2) Leisure The work modes of the Industrial Age reflected the machinery of the time.We did standardized jobs in fixed locations and set blocks of time to produce standardized products […]

Redesigning Work and Organizations for the Digital Age (2)

Redesigning Work and Organizations for the Digital Age (2) Derived from… Seth Godin, Linchpin: Are You Indispensable PreviouslyRedesigning Work and Organizations for the Digital Age (1) Connection Traditional organizations were composed of various elements.Marketing sat over there, sales was here, production down there and management upstairs.No more.The internet and digital technologies dissolves the boundaries between […]

Redesigning Work and Organizations for the Digital Age

Redesigning Work and Organizations for the Digital Age Derived from… Seth Godin, Linchpin: Are You Indispensable PreviouslyRelated Reading to Seth Godin’s Linchpin BR Context : Business and Work Map Lets draw some loose threads together…Linchpin is another piece in the puzzle that we’ve been tracking at Book Rapper through most of our issues.It revolves around […]

IdeasCulture interviews Book Rapper

IdeasCulture interviews Book Rapper On Monday night I presented at National Speakers Victorian Chapter Meeting.During the break NSAA Vic President, creative thinker and ideas expert Yvonne Adele did a quick interview with me on her flipcam. Here it is… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbCb6p8UnIg Check out Yvonne’s cleverly creative crowdsourcing on her site: www.IdeasCulture.comAnd, follow her on twitter, she’s […]

Launching Twit Rapper…

Launching Twit Rapper… Every now and then you come across a book that truly inspires you. And, I don’t mean it makes you feel good. I mean, it puts a thousand volts of electricity in your head and sparks a lightning storm of ‘gotta do that’ ideas. Well, this book did just that for me! […]

What does it mean to be ‘Live’? Part 4

What does it mean to be ‘Live’? Part 4 Following from our previous posts on the ‘The Virtual Presenter’, “What does it mean to present in the ‘live’ world?” In this series of blog posts, we’ll take a tour of some of the industries that have already grappled with this question. 4 Comedy The role […]

What does it mean to be ‘Live’? Part 3

What does it mean to be live? Part 3Following from our previous posts on the ‘The Virtual Presenter’, “What does it mean to present in the ‘live’ world?” In this series of blog posts, we’ll take a tour of some of the industries that have already grappled with this question.1 Theatre2 Music 3 MoviesWhen movies […]

What does it mean to be ‘Live’? Part 2

What does it mean to be live? Part 2Following from our previous posts on the ‘The Virtual Presenter’, “What does it mean to present in the ‘live’ world?” In this series of blog posts, we’ll take a tour of some of the industries that have already grappled with this question. 2 Music Talk about comebacks! […]