I don’t have a dream, it is not mine to possess. I share a dream. This dream is one of collaboration, where public organisations recognise that their goals are more important than the means they use to achieve them. Where they transcend their structures and share knowledge, recognising that it doesn’t matter who achieves the […]
Author Archives: Jay Cousins
The Ideas Diary – Blog the Aged Project
Get younguns to film old uns talking about what life was like growing up in a particular geographic location. Will serve to include the old in the digital media revolution and hopefully break down a few of the perceptions that both parties hold. Plus it will create a sense of history around an area. I […]
The Ideas Diary – How YouTube can turn a profit
Photo Credit http://www.flickr.com/photos/iwaszewski/ Further to my previous post on Augmented Content, i’d like to follow with an example. The example in question, could remove some of the many issues of media rights that we presently face, if the right profits share systems can be created. Augmented Broadcasting Imagine your watching a film and you see […]
Jay’s Lexicon – Augmented Content
There’s been a lot of talk of content, and user generated content, but strangely the phrase augmented content I find greatly overlooked. Especially as the process of content augmentation is one which we appear to be constantly engaged in, albiet at the moment in a limited form. Augmenting tweets by linking to urls and blogs, […]
Response – will the internet kill think tanks?
First off why am I writing this on my own blog rather than on the Guardians comment pages? Because they’ve closed comments. Why? I can only presume it’s because they had too many responses, or that they think that the internet is like a newspaper and that after a few days nobody will read the […]
Creating tools for public engagement in secret
photo credit richard winchell This is a WTF post. There are several organisations that I’m aware of at present developing social media strategies in secret. At the core of all these strategies lie themes of transparency, accessibility, open communication, and community engagement. Yet the strategies themselves are being designed with the minimum of public consultation […]
Web Improvements
Pondering the world of web improvements, one of the joys is that if you can think of it it already exists. Fantastic as it means I don’t have to wait for the functionality, or if I do I don’t have to wait for as much of it. So first up – The split browser function. […]
Organisations and Social Media – Stage 1. The buy in
To start introducing social media into any large organisation, one must first recognise the obvious – Social media is social. It can only be as successfull as the number of people using in, and social forces will come into play. What do I mean by social forces? I mean your dealing with people, each will […]
Socialising Social Enterprise
At the Catalyst awards Dan Mcquillan asked “what next?” for the Catalyst Awards and Social Enterprises. He suggested a mash up of all the events together to bring them all under one roof. I suggest taking it a stage further. Why don’t we look in more detail at the collaboration opportunities that exist within these […]
“Anti Social” behavior
Ever since Thatcher denied it’s existence society has been in decline, like a Discworld god that no longer has a following. I found this great quote in the Private Eye this morning… “The government was concerned about ANTI SOCIAL BEHAVIOR and in 2004 passed a law about it. This law allows Police to break up […]
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