Digital Enlightenment
I have always been interested in the symbiotic interplay between technology and human systems, how humans invent and use new technologies and then how those technologies change or alter the human systems themselves. As I thought about how to approach this next post there are two streams that I wanted to explore and I have […]
Evolution of the digital brand
In my last post I began to explore the notion of transparency, and to ask how digital technologies are influencing us all on a personal – group – tribal – organisational and even national scale. What is emerging is the concept of the “digital brand” which I have come to understand more fully over the […]
Transparency and the digital society
There have been numerous themes I have considered exploring this week but the one that has fully matured in my thinking is that of transparency, and here is why. The big social media news story has been Facebook’s “revamp” with both Timeline and Open Graph. Some people described Timeline in particular as being a little […]
Observations from FutureGov 2011
In her latest contribution to “The Drum” journalist Annabel Crabb confronts what she describes as the “rootless and shallow” nature of current Australian politics. I’ve been covering politics since 1999 and I’ve never, until this year, ever sat in the press gallery, looked down and thought, “I actually don’t think I can bear another second […]
Remembering 9/11
As a brief thought I was quite literally just catching a taxi to the airport from my hotel directly under the Sears Tower in Chicago when the first plane hit the World Trade Centre. I was on my way to Toronto to meet up with friends that morning and what followed during the course of […]
Analogue versus Digital – It’s the people stupid!
The conversation which I find increasingly common at the minute is that of the interplay between the digital and analogue worlds. The Intersticia logo represents this and, for me, this is one of the most pressing challenges facing us all as we struggle to deal with the pervasiveness of technologies in the early twenty first […]
Communicators as catalysts for social business
Last week I participated in two educational settings which relate to both public relations and social media, and which have caused me to reflect on the evolving role of communications in the twenty first century. The first was the IBRC “Web 3.0: Public Relations and Social Media” Conference which sought to explore how the emerging […]
renaissance 2011
After a three year haitus Intersticia is back, with a newly designed livery, a revived energy and commitment. The reasons for both? The last three years have been full of challenges and insights, frenetic activity, and the privilege of working with a few incredibly inspiring people. As always it is people from whom we learn […]
The Opera uproar
You may (or may not!) be aware of the rumblings occurring about Opera Australia at the moment … My friend Fiona Janes has written to the Board of the company highlighting a number of issues to do with the engagement and casting of singers, particularly highlighting the discrepancy between the number of ‘older’ and more […]
Zero growth, perhaps time for a rethink!
We are facing a time of “zero growth” we are told! The Australian Treasurer Wayne Swan fronted the TV audience from New York and announced that growth in the major western markets was stalling. Aha! I thought! Could it be that the world financial crisis might lead to even a modest return to the ‘basics’, […]