http://www.interactiveknowhow.com Bright ideas to grow your business Tue, 19 Aug 2008 21:24:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en One day, back in 2005, council worker Dominic Campbell found an unsolicited email in his inbox. The email was inviting him to a business breakfast on ‘customer insight’. The breakfast was at Mosimann’s and it was free, so Dominic thought ‘why not?’ At the time, Dominic was working in a back ... http://www.interactiveknowhow.com/2008/08/the-barnet-crusader/ Arseniy Rastorguev (known to his UK friends as Archie) works in the Moscow office of MMD, a leading corporate communications firm for central and eastern Europe. Clients include IBM, Visa and HSBC. MMD’s regional director in Moscow, Stephen Locke, is ‘a big fan of social media’. Archie started as a ... http://www.interactiveknowhow.com/2008/08/in-blog-we-trust/ Mala Bhat is over here from India on the government’s ‘highly skilled immigrants’ programme. (Well, with the lack of respect for good ideas in the UK, and fondness for lager, is it any surprise we need people like Mala?). “In Bangalore, like most of India, the big companies tend to ... http://www.interactiveknowhow.com/2008/08/the-view-from-bangalore/ It’s a non-committal sort of day (overcast, chilly) and I’ve got a fuzzy, non-committal sort of head (not enough sleep, one too many glass of red). Here I am, later than desired, dragging my feet through the urban roadwork frenzy that now marks the entrance to London’s West End. (Shaftesbury ... http://www.interactiveknowhow.com/2008/08/hello-20/ David Wilcox is a ‘social reporter’. He's always been a journalist, started out at the Evening Standard in the early seventies, when pay was okay and liquid lunches de rigour: “But then, the price of oil quadrupled - and everything changed.” He’s now interested in ‘how you can do good stuff ... http://www.interactiveknowhow.com/2008/08/your-friendly-social-reporter/ “In the future, organisations aren’t going to be the same. This is about different ways of organising. In fact, it’s not the ‘organisation’ we’re talking about any more, it’s the ‘collaboration’.” So says Lloyd Davis, consultant, ukulele player and all-around good egg. Since January, Lloyd has been running what is now ... http://www.interactiveknowhow.com/2008/08/lloyd-davis-on-the-birth-of-tuttle/ In 2001, Adriana Lukas was working for a large financial firm in the City of London when she started blogging with Samizdata, a quasi-political blog “for people with a critically rational individualist perspective”. Back then, there were dozens of bloggers rather than millions, and the term social media wasn’t even ... http://www.interactiveknowhow.com/2008/08/scaling-the-ivory-towers/ Clay Shirky makes a nice observation about the origins of knowledge mis-management, which he traces back to the US railway industry c.1855. In order to oversee the challenges of a rapidly expanding railway system, a superintendent for one railroad firm drew what was possibly the world's first organisational chart. The chart ... http://www.interactiveknowhow.com/2008/08/bad-habits-die-hard/ When Clay Shirky arrived in the UK in Feb 2008 to promote his book, Here Comes Everybody, he drew a great deal of interest – nearly all favourable. How could anyone argue with such ‘motherhood and apple pie’ concepts as empowerment, collaboration and improved communication? Of course, like the small print ... http://www.interactiveknowhow.com/2008/08/whose-side-are-you-on-anyway/ OK, so assuming that we (us little, geeky, leaders – with a small ‘l’ – of the digital revolution) all believe a positive change is going to come, how is it going to happen? Do we march in to corporate businesses like The Change Police, demanding an end to all this ... http://www.interactiveknowhow.com/2008/08/bring-on-the-change-police/