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Ignite - Pecha Kucha on speed

PresentationZen has an interesting post about Ignite. Standard PK (Pecha Kucha) is 20 slides, each lasting 20 seconds, i.e. 6 minutes 40 seconds. Ignite is 20 slides, each slide lasting 15 seconds, i.e. 5 minutes in total. Surprisingly, the dynamics of 15 seconds are quite different from 20 seconds, the whole flow needs to be more continuous. With 20 seconds...

Who owns your profile?

Bombaycrow has an interesting post about a UK court judgement. A former employee of Hays has been forced to give his former employer the details of the contacts he built up in LinkedIn whilst he was their employee. This case does not necessarily mean employers can ask for a copy of your Facebook profile. Amongst the relevant factors in this...

Why are some many things less good than they could be? Because consumers want them that way!

I love reading Seth Godin’s blog because he takes such strong and clear positions. I find I am either appalled at his ignorance (IMHO) or amazed at his brilliance, there is very little mediocrity about Godin. Today’s blog is spot on the money (euphemism for very good, or agrees with what I would have said, if I had articulated my...

Why does the BBC think 90% is much bigger than 89%

The BBC have an interesting article about how Ryan Air is being taken to court by BAA because Ryan Air has not paid its bills. As part of the article the BBC talks about how times are hard for Ryan Air with the airline heading towards making an annual loss of £47million. Most of the reporting seems fine, but at...

Why can't MR presentations be this clear?

The people at Common Craft make freat videos to explain all sorts of things. The one below explains the US Presidential electoral system really well. When you look at it, think about how you might change your presentations to be as clear as this.
 

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Some things are older than you think!

Last week I was listening to This Sceptred Isle (a history of the UK on BBC Radio 7) and was struck by the use of a phrase back in the 17th Century. After the death of Oliver Cromwell his son became the Lord Protector after which the 'Rump Parliament' was reinstalled. This Parliament was thought to be so bad that the diarist Samuel Pepys wrote "...boys do now cry 'Kiss my Parliament' instead of 'Kiss my arse', so great and general a contempt is the rump come to...". I had, hitherto, always assu… Continue

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Most peopel are smarter than the average!

Seth Godin has an interesting post of the issue of people self-segregating themselves into the smarter half. A similar problem has been recognised in areas such as performance related pay for a long time, about 70% of people seem think they work harder than the average employee. What are the implications for researchers and marketers who want to engage in co-creation. The fact that a significant number of people… Continue

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Herd and Mark Earls

The high spot of BIG (the UK B2B group) this year was the closing session by Mark Earls, the author of Herd. One of the delightfully old fashioned things about BIG is that still have a 'goody bag' and in this year's bag, along with normal pens, pedometers, and digital speakers, was a copy of Mark's book. Mark's key point is a very simple, but very important one. Most of the time, people do not think, they just react. One of the key drivers of this reacting is to copy. We think we are making ind… Continue

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Paying people to remove negative reviews

Boing Boing has a post about a camera shop offering a customer $75 to remove a negative comment they posted on Amazon. The guy who had bought the camer, Jason Weisberger, was not happy was not happy with the way the camera was paked for shipping and then he thought the company were rude to him when he rang tham. The problem with the companies response is that it now looks like they are more keen to hide news than fix p… Continue

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Godin misues the infinite - is it time to take a stand?

I hate to sound like a grumpy old man! But, I am becoming increasingly frustrated when intelligent peopel do something dumb! Seth Godin is one of the best marketing gurus around, but his latest blog "Nearly Infinite" mangles a perfectly good term. Godin's point is that there are many choices available to us where the number of options is so large that we can't review/search them in the old fashioned way. For examp… Continue

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At 6:41pm on 21st April 2008, Jason Ho said…
Hi Ray,

I've sent you a link to a mrspace.corank.com site but realise you are already a member. That in my opinion is one cool white-label site for social bookmarking/ bookmark sharing to serve the mr space. Allows posting of your own writing so can serve as a job posting section as well.

If you think its useful, I will point a subdomain of http://mr-space.com to it e.g. http://bm.mr-space.com (or any you think is appropriate).

Also, I've pointed http://wiki.mr-space.com to http://mrspace.wetpaint.com and should work after url propagation (24 hours or so)

Jason
At 1:23pm on 20th March 2008, Tom Ewing said…
Thanks Ray - hope you like the paper!

This is a terrific initiative BTW.
At 1:34pm on 12th March 2008, Mario Menti said…
OK, let's talk next week. I should be around on both days.
At 12:53pm on 12th March 2008, Jason Ho said…
Hi Ray, I've pointed http://mr-space.com to http://mrspace.ning.com too.
At 5:01am on 10th March 2008, Vincent Fong said…
Hi Ray, I joined MRSpace to today and just emailed Eric Bell that I thought the MRSpace was a really neat idea.

I'm hoping MRSpace will continue to develop into a truly web2.0 space for researchers.

Kind regards,
Vincent
At 4:42pm on 5th March 2008, Mario Menti said…
Ray - I registered http://mrspace.org and have it redirect here. If you like and are willing to spend the extra $4.95 a month, we could use the mrspace.org domain for this network, and lose the "ning" URL..

Cheers,
Mario.
At 7:43pm on 27th February 2008, Mario Menti said…
(sorry for reposting this, just realised that I should have replied to the comment thread rather than leaving a comment on my own profile page in reply..)

Yes, in the sense that Ning can act as a container for OpenSocial gadgets (if you enable gadgets when you create your network). Only proof-of-concept at the moment, but by adding the gadget to your page, you could automatically be added to a research panel, and get survey invites etc. through that gadget.
At 7:01pm on 27th February 2008, Christian Lindknud said…
Ray,

I have to thank you for creating this initiative. I can imagine how much work has gone into this and it is truly being appreciated from Lyon, France.

Quite honestly I cannot promise to give too much time to make this tool a success but I will give it my best, modest try.

All the best and do keep this going!

Cheers,
Christian
At 2:52pm on 22nd February 2008, Vanessa Franklin said…
Oh nothing worse than noise keeoing you up all night. I just moved house a few weeks ago and needed to stay in a hotel for a few nights between houses.

I stayed in quite possibly the worst hotel in London. the only advantage was it was only a few tube stops away from work.
At 12:01pm on 22nd February 2008, Vanessa Franklin said…
Hi Ray,

You came and did a talk at Colmar Brunton in Melbourne when i worked there. Good idea to start this site. It will be great to see how it progresses.

Cheers
Vanessa
 
 

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