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Banks: Engage or Die!

By Danielle Sheerin | Published: 6th April 2011

Yes, this is a blog about banking and finance innovation, but bear with me here.  Progress in this sector is actually pretty interesting.  Aside from affecting us all in our day-to-day lives as we try to manage our finances in pretty grim times, it also has  resonance for the way that other sectors will see [...]

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Design for the Wisdom of Crowds

By Tom | Published: 15th March 2009

More notes from SXSW. This was a great presentation by Derek Powazek. It was fast and covered a lot so I hope my notes make sense! Fire away in the comments if you want me to clarify anything.

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The future of social networks

By Tom | Published: 14th March 2009

My notes from Charlene Li’s presentation at SXSW… Starting off by going back 20 years to Tim Berners Lee in 1989 wrote about the web being a social creation rather than a technical toy. It’s only been in the last few years that we have had very simple tools to make that vision a reality. [...]

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Alternative Publicity: Grabbin’ Eyeballs and Sparking Buzz

By Tom | Published: 14th March 2009

I’ve sneaked into one of the panel sessions at the SXSW Film conference. Couldn’t resist a session about generating buzz. Once again, please forgive the typos and mistakes – I’ve just posted this straight up without editing. Audience in this session have notepads and pens – no laptops. Odd :) On the panel we have: [...]

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Emerging trends of mobile technology

By Tom | Published: 14th March 2009

Here are my unedited notes from this panel session at SXSW. On the panel as have: Rob Gonda – Director of strategy; Juan Morales – creative director, Sapient; Ryan Stewart – Adobe platform evangelist. 3 times more mobile subscribers in the world than Internet users. Japan: the phone is the core of all lifestyle activity. [...]

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Championing social media to “The Man”

By Tom | Published: 13th March 2009

I’m liveblogging this panel session from SXSW in Austin, Texas. I’m posting this without editing. Apologies for typos or bits that make no sense :) Social media projects have to be signed off by a senior exec. This is “The Man.” How do we get him (or her) on-side? Q: How much does getting the [...]

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