May 2012
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IBM: 57% of Global CEOs Want More Social with...
Social media will be used as it was meant: for communication, not serving up ads…
almiron:
IBM’s newest CEO study, which canvassed over 1700 CEOs from around the world, reports that CEOs see social media growing to 57% of their important customer interactions from 16% today.http://seb.tl/ME3umH #domainnames
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Why Companies Make Deals with Rivals →
Ties into my prediction CEOs will be replaced by Chief Collaboration Officers…
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Gerd Leonhard wants to 'reset the music business' →
The future of the music industry is no industry as we’ve known it…
futuresagency:
As seen on Wired UK: “At the Spot music conference in Århus, Denmark, musician and futurist Gerd Leonard discussed a series of possible futures for the music business.
Leonhard isn’t a fan of how the record industry has been run over the last decade or so. “The whole economy of…
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Everyone Should Learn the Entrepreneurial Method ~... →
Flipping entrepreneurism??? The future of teaching business…
akeiph:
“The idea that anyone can be taught to be an entrepreneur, to effect things for themselves, might seem ridiculous. But consider this. Every large corporation that exists today began as a small, entrepreneurial company started by ordinary people. In retrospect, their achievements seem incredible, almost magical, by no...
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Moguls with Hoodies →
The internet business is starting to shape into a business that is no longer a business due to piracy, entrenchment with ad capital and lack of creativity. We’re talking about the entertainment industry. Will the web in its egalitarian utopian spirit be the web we want it or that of a few power players serving the brand masters? Washington Post Innovations Blogger Dominic Basulto looks into...
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“Our God, the internet, is eerily similar to the gods of old. As it’s really just...”
– The future of religion. Is it the internet?
Benjamin Jackson at Buzzfeed: Is The Free Internet A New God? (via thisistheverge)
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“For the over 900 million people that use Facebook, the App Center will become...”
– Introducing the App Center - Facebook Developers (via futuresagency)
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“The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher...”
– Why the future of teaching needs to be disrupted through technology…
William A. Ward (via skillshare)
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Why CMO tenure is so low →
Many don’t understand technology. Thus another reason for the evolution of the CMO/CIO tag team or the rise of the CDS (Chief Data Scientist) and the extinction of the CMO altogether.
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“What many are missing in this day and age is they are thinking too much around...”
– Geoffrey Colon, Futurist Lab
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10 PREDICTIONS FROM THE FIRST INTERNET BUST AND... →
One of the original digital marketing execs, GM O’Connell, made some futurist predictions in 2002 about how the Internet would impact people and brands. Here, he looks back and assesses his accuracy, and, along the way, reveals some timeless truths about marketing in the digital age.
“Over the last few decades, nearly all the economic growth and job growth in the...”
– Future job growth is in technology…
Transformational Entrepreneurship: Where Technology Meets Societal Impact - Harvard Business Review (via courtenaybird)
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Emerging Term: "Human Think-in"
The term think-in first originated from an initiative in 2009 by Frog Design as noted in this Big Think “Endless Innovation” blog post by Dominic Basulto. It was described by Basulto as the following:
“The Digital Think In is an incredible initiative pulled together for NPR by Frog Design. For one day only, Frog brought together over 60 thought leaders who worked on an...
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