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What do we need managers to do better?
I spoke at Social Media for Business ’10 the other week and in the panel session afterwards we were asked what we thought social media in the enterprise meant for leadership and management. Big...
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Keeping out of the gutters
I was struck by a piece by Scott Walker a few weeks ago on the use of the gutter in comic-strips and relating it to transmedia storytelling. I identified with it immediately because I know that the...
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What’s with the lines and boxes and backstory?
What’s all this about then? Well it’s becoming clear to me that there are two things that I need to do that I’m not doing enough of. First is that I should be writing more publicly about what I’m...
View ArticleGetting people to do stuff
I was prompted to write about this by a twitter exchange this morning. Sophia Looney from Lambeth Council was wondering about getting some help around data visualisation for reporting. “Heh” I chuckled...
View ArticleFacebook misuse of “via”
This has been bothering me for a while but I only really understood it when I just used it (Life Lesson #348). Facebook has a kind of retweeting function so if you see something that someone else has...
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My passport expires tomorrow
Yikes! When I got this, 25th October 2010 seemed a very very long time away. It was still a massive novelty to be saying 2000-and-something and being in the noughties, let alone considering the second...
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The Social Art of Travelling across the USA
Hmmm… that feels like a big title for something important. Well I suppose it is. In a way it’s what I’m thinking about all the time – how might I repeat the adventure of last March? Do I want to?...
View ArticleControl again
I got an e-mail today saying: “I am part of the web development team for XXXX where we are constantly trying to improve the http://www.XXXXX.com site’s user experience. Part of this improvement...
View ArticleNone of us know the whole story… *ever*
But that doesn’t stop us believing that we do. My twitter stream this morning is full of bile, shock, disgust, fear, misanthropy and argument about a young man who’s been arrested for trolling the...
View ArticleTuttle needs to move
Tuttle is a travelling circus. It needs to move and it needs to go where the people are. I needed a rest from herding the Tuttle cats and C4CC was a great place to let the show rest and settle and for...
View Article[bds] People, places and things. Oh and time.
[This post is about the Bromsgrove Digital Shoebox project – bds] I’m thinking about the scope of media/content/stuff. It’s a balancing act, working out where to draw the lines – what should be...
View ArticleSome Hows of Timelapse
I made a little timelapse this week and put it in my flickr stream because I found, to my chagrin, that it made instagram video barf. Robert spotted it (see? he *is* looking, watching, lurking quietly...
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[insert celebrity name] died in January what’s up with that?
We have seen some cultural icons pass in the last month. And whenever we hear of another individual death, we’re tutting on social media and giving January 2016 a bit of a hard stare. It’s had me...
View ArticleAudioblog 160220 – Why So Serious?
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/2098876/whysoserious.mp3 Download 5.7MB I recorded this on Waterloo Station shortly after the Devoted & Disgruntled Vaults Festival Open Space on Saturday. The...
View ArticleSelf Care: Things To Do
This is by no means a canonical list, but I remembered on Saturday that I had it with me and so I shared it with people. It occurred to me that it might be useful to share here too. I could add to...
View ArticleAudioblog 160223 – Walking by the canal thinking about @solobasssteve
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/2098876/audioblog160223.mp3 Download .mp3 (7.9MB) Walked by the canal this morning, nice and slow and easy. Reflective, as canals are and encourage us to be. Not...
View ArticleTheatre Blogging: it’s not what it could be
I heard recently about a director having the nasty experience of inviting a journalist into rehearsals and then having an unhelpful (I haven’t read it, it’s paywalled) preview article published just...
View ArticleHow do you find a smell?
Often, if I’m out in town, I will catch a whiff of something nice. Some cologne or perfume or something that transports me to a happy warm childhood place or an image of someone or something or just a...
View ArticleWomen’s work #IWD2016
I don’t work for free, that’s a firm rule. But when Helen asked me to help with making a series of podcasts with women in tech for International Women’s Day, I said yes without hesitation. I’m proud...
View Article“Why can’t you just… be a better person?”
This was an old joke between my first wife and me, when a discussion or argument that had reached the point where one person wanted to shout “Why can’t you just do what I’m telling you to do?” – the...
View ArticleSimple body maintenance things
One of the things they tried to instill in us at drama school was the idea that if you’re going to be someone who creates through performance or just your presence in the world, some exercise first...
View ArticleWhat even *is* an idea?
David Lynch talks about ideas as fish. He says if you sit still and wait and are open to catching one, they’ll just pop into your consciousness, so you right them down and then others come and join it...
View ArticleOpening Space – Invitations
The crafting of an Open Space invitation will be iterative. I like to have an overarching single question as the title of the event. How broad it is does depend on the subject and also how big the...
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The Climate Crisis Will Be Televised Trivially
A screenshot of me sitting in church on local news on the evening of 8th March 2023. Caption reads “Lloyd Davis, Community Worker, Guildford United Reformed Church” We got a call just after 10:30am on...
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August 28th 2024 – Morning Notes
So many breakfasts, so little time The quiet early hours, from 5 to 7 in the morning, have always been my most fertile time for ideas. However, there’s a catch: when I sit down to type, I lose the...
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