One of the extreme highlights of my visit to California during the past week was sharing dinner on Thursday night with Eric Mack (offline), Marc (the ZDNet blogger) and Sue Orchant, the highly talented artist who paints on silk (PDF, 307KB). Obvious I’ve met the Mack previously, but […]
It is so neat to be able to renew friendships that I’ve made through previous jobs and projects. On Wednesday night (August 2) in Huntington Beach, Fred and Barbara Berlack drove up from their home to share dinner with me. I met Fred at Ferris Research all those […]
On this trip to the US, I decided to go on Air New Zealand. I was fortunate enough to get an upgrade to the new Business Premier class, and it was worth writing home about. It was wonderful. The seat was totally lie flat, with a length of […]
In June 2005 when I came up to the US for the inaugural Collaborative Technologies Conference 2005, it took 40 minutes for my bag to come through at Los Angeles International Airport, and that was after clearing border control. In December 2005, when I came up for some […]
I’m in the US until Sunday night. I had a great view of the Californian coast as we flew in this morning.
Visualizing Time-Based Events Pascal commons on the Timeline project from MIT, for the visualization of time-based events. He is interested in it for his work teaching history … It naturally triggered my curiosity as an Historian and a teacher of History. Contrary to popular beliefs, there is of […]
He’s feeding well, sleeping well, growing well, and smiling lots. It is such a privilege to have another little life in our family. Tags: jonathan+sampson
Before I was the principal analyst at Shared Spaces, I was the Content Editor and Research Analyst at Ferris Research, a market research and analyst firm focused on messaging and collaboration. I learnt a huge amount from David Ferris … he was a wonderful teacher. Ferris publishes both […]
Cultivating Innovation Every employee can be a powerhouse for innovation, and entrepreneurs need to create a culture to encourage it. Guidelines in doing so: Set aside your ego. You can’t have all the good ideas. Eliminate perceived penalties for “bad ideas”. Innovation requires a bit of craziness. Hold […]
GatherPlace.NET for Web Conferencing A couple of weeks back, I had the privilege of giving Chris Brogan a run through Foldera (he’s just posted the podcast we recorded on our second talk). Although I use a Mac as my primary computer, I had set up a GoToMeeting session […]
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