9. begun. Through the
Internet, people
are discovering and
inventing new ways
to share relevant
knowledge with
blinding speed. As a
direct result,
markets are
getting smarter—
and getting
smarter faster
24. Why the internet makes
things shit
Amount of media
Amount of attention
25. Read this
"When the news is decided not by what is
important but by what readers are clicking; when
the cycle is so fast that the news cannot be
anything else but consistently and regularly
incomplete; when dubious scandals pressure
politicians to resign and scuttle election bids or
knock millions from market caps of publicly
traded companies; when the news frequently
covers itself in stories about 'how the story
unfolded'--unreality is the only word for it. It is,
as Daniel Boorstin, author of 1962's T
he Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America
, put it, a 'thicket ... which stands between us and the facts of life.'"
31. Buy this shit that’s
slighter better than the
other shit
32.
33. We are no longer
creators and
consumers but
rather we are all
plugged into a
kaleidoscope of
choices, sharing and
sifting, refining and
disguarding
35. What can brands do
about all this?
• Be morally and socially
purposeful
• Be tastemakers not
followers
• Create high quality
experiences
• Be useful and be
entertaining
• Lead culture, don’t follow
46. Getting people to
buy stuff they
don’t need with
money they don’t
have to make
themselves feel
better about the
fact they work all
the time and aren’t
famous
47. To add value
richness and
purposeand beauty
to products and
services, so
economic dignity
grows and we all
get happier
Hinweis der Redaktion
Agencies are intrinsically innovative, so why do we have a specialist innovation team?
If you go back 20 years or so when we started, everything in digital was innovative because it was all new. It was also easy for companies to do innovative (and so risky) things because digital was not core to their businesses.
For all the technological change over the next twenty years, the real growing up was in the relevance of digital on our clients’ businesses.
The slide shows a presentation by Sir Tim Berners-Lee from 1993 where he describes the possibilities for the Web. Seems even his vision was a little limited.
http://www.w3.org/Talks/OnlinePublishing93/
Power on a network goes to the biggest computer
Andy Law
There are plenty more where they came from. There's the dust-proof, waterproof Samsung Galaxy S4 Active, which is designed for mermaids and moles. There's the Samsung Galaxy NX, which is a DSLR-sized camera with a Galaxy shoved into it. There's the Samsung Galaxy Galaxy, which is a Galaxy with a secret compartment for storing Galaxy chocolate bars. And there's the Samsung Galaxy Horse, which is a Galaxy stapled to a horse.
As the leading digital agency we expect to do innovative work across the board. So why do we need an innovation team?
Today, “digital” is all grown up. Our clients — typically CMOs — are focused on these kind of metrics because small percentage changes translate into large amounts of money. And because our clients focus on them, quite properly so do we. The create a natural [click] “envelope” of digital marketing activity. Within this envelope we do innovative work in pursuit of our clients’ goals.
However, [click] there is still a world of opportunities outside it. Because of the massive focus inside the envelope it’s hard for clients and their agencies to break through. It’s easy to have a fascinating conversation with a client about a great idea — but the next moment the conversation will likely turn (eg,) to the conversion rate this month and attention comes back to the immediate business-critical challenges at hand.
That is the reason why even an innovative agency needs an innovation team — to take clients to places they never expected to go; to take them beyond business as usual.
, digital is pervasive. This little story illustrates this.
Oct 2012, via MIT Technology Review and Gizmodo
Ethiopian children using OLPC tablets.
"We left the boxes in the village. Closed. Taped shut. No instruction, no human being. I thought, the kids will play with the boxes! Within four minutes, one kid not only opened the box, but found the on/off switch. He'd never seen an on/off switch. He powered it up. Within five days, they were using 47 apps per child per day. Within two weeks, they were singing ABC songs [in English] in the village. And within five months, they had hacked Android. Some idiot in our organization or in the Media Lab had disabled the camera! And they figured out it had a camera, and they hacked Android.”
http://www.technologyreview.com/news/506466/given-tablets-but-no-teachers-ethiopian-children-teach-themselves/
http://gizmodo.com/5956417/ethiopian-kids-hack-their-olpc-tablets-in-5-months-with-no-help