Wednesday, March 26, 2008

Innovation is for everyone

I've always been an advocate for small wins.

Certainly work on the big wins in the background, but deliver ongoing small wins over time and you build the organisational cred to take on the bigger projects.

I've also a big fan of reusing the good ideas of other and building on them. Few 'new ideas' are actually new, most are simply well executed twists.

As such I found this article on innovation by Scott Berkun very refreshing.

How to innovate right now

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Sunday, May 27, 2007

Where do you start with Web 2.0?

I've never liked the term Web 2.0, but it's become established as the 'in term' for websites involving more than flat pages and information.

These days everyone wants to be seen to be doing Web 2.0 - even when they are not.

But what really IS Web 2.0?

What separates the sites that are really engaging in an interactive way with their audience? That are driven by participation rather than command and control?

And what does this mean for government (a user-participation activity!) and business in the future?

Professor Michael Wesch has some ideas in his video, The Machine is Us.

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