The ‘gasp’ model.
Experience is knowing. Understanding. Awareness. Expectation. Safe. Trusted.
See title / above.
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Libraries As Interfaces, Extending The Possibilities | LIANZA 2012 Keynote
My keynote presentation at this years professional organisation for the New Zealand library and information management profession (LIANZA).
My abstract: The opportunities to connect to audiences and markets are vastly changing due to the social layer the web and new technologies now offer. How can libraries leverage this rich source of interaction to aid their focus, deepen existing relationships plus help generate new ideas and solutions?
Thank you to the amazing (nearly 500 strong) crowd, the organisers, the tech staff etc
Here’s the humbling testimonial:
DK was an outstanding presenter — fast-paced, dynamic, fun and the audience just loved him! They loved his content too — challenging and ‘mind-melting’ but also with plenty of takeaway messages. His keynote was perfect as it delivered oodles of inspiration, and his workshop demonstrated how fast and easy it is to create exciting content in the social media world. He was very professional too, cool and calm during a few technical hitches, and great to deal with.
Linda Palmer
LIANZA 2012 conference convenor
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How To Empty A Plane | The Solution
I have too much time on my hands.
Once a plane lands, a flight attendants walks from the front (or back, depending on which ever way the plane is disembarking) and releases access to the overhead lockers. Only when the attendent has passed the row and released the lock can people get up and collect their things to exit.
This will cut down on the bedlam and scrum of disembarking, allows for a steady and simple flow of exiting people plus a more controlled customer experience.
Would love to do this as an experiment—do you think it would work?
Inspired by real life and this Oatmeal comic.
Mahi Papaho Conference | National Association Media Educators (NZ) 2012 Keynote
Social media killed mass Media (how social changed everything & nothing).
When we (the conference organisers) heard DK’s presentation on social media at a CORE Breakfast last year, we knew we wanted him to come and talk at the conference, and we were really excited about the eye-popping possibilities of social media in a classroom that he would introduce. We thought; we smiled. Thanks, DK!
Diane Henjyoji, Conference Organiser
The title of the above keynote I delivered for the National Association of Media Educators (NZ) and TRCC, Mahi Papaho Conference in Wellington, NZ, 6th July 2012.
It was a great opportunity to revisit some of the topics I studied during my degree days and it was delivered as part of my role as Social Media Manager for CORE Education.
Special thanks to the organisers for both filming and allowing me to share. As stated in the talk, would love to be involved with the curriculum development specific to this subject—anyone out there listening / watching from NZQA? Please get in touch.
YouTube version
Social Media Club Wellington | Back To Basics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hi1bfyHCfQE
The fundamentals (of social media).
It was a pure privilege to speak at the Social Media Club Wellington this week.
As a reflection of where I am, transitioning out of the social media specific career, the talk focussed on the idea of getting back to basics.
Here are the links to the stuff featured:
- FUNDAMENTALS—the zen book
- BEST—opening with the great Pirsig quote about it’s not what’s new but what’s best that matters, plus stuff here about how Quora didn’t live up to the hype and why Pinterest is not that new
- SHOW—the chapter, image credit
- OUTCOMES—the chapter and a great quote from Churchill
- EXPERTS—the chapter and the power of podcasting
- SIDEWAYS—the chapter and this crazy ass Google Translate video
- HOW—the chapter, Martini media and Mobile Vouchers idea
- PROCESS—the chapter and Moleskine Pen Holder
- BANDWIDTH—the chapter, image credit and KLM Surprise video
- FULCRUM—image credit, my Ignite talk on Change and new look on the map of the world
I’m available for hire if you liked what you saw / heard.
As always, I try to reference everything used but sometimes the content has no source or was collected years ago and has since been lost. Let us know if anything is yours and will certainly give proper credit.
School Scrabble Championships | One Million Kids On The Tiles
See also The Illiteracy Of Play | Pecha Kucha Night Christchurch.
School Scrabble is a big thing in the USA.
You can buy specially designed starter kits to start your school clubs:
The kit contains 6 boards, 6 sets of tiles, 6 tile bags, 12 racks and as a bonus The Official SCRABBLE Players Dictionary, Fourth Edition.
Great idea, superbly presented.
Love Letter to Plywood
Delightful.
Via The Awesomer
What It Is | Writing On The Wall
The above image was taken on Majoribanks Street, Wellington, NZ.
There is always intrigue in words written on the wall for passers by.
Google Translate said it was: “I’ll say it is the calculation”…
A little more searching revealed the lines come from a superb Erich Fried poem and this site offered the full translation (see first two lines of the second verse):
Was es ist (German)
Es ist Unsinn
sagt die Vernunft
Es ist was es ist
sagt die Liebe
Es ist Ungl’ck
sagt die Berechnung
Es ist nichts als Schmerz
sagt die Angst
Es ist aussichtslos
sagt die Einsicht
Es ist was es ist
sagt die Liebe
Es ist l’cherlich
sagt der Stolz
Es ist leichtsinnig
sagt die Vorsicht
Es ist unm’glich
sagt die Erfahrung
Es ist was es ist
sagt die Liebe
What It Is (English)
Rationality says
It’s nonsense
Love says
It is what it is
Reckoning says
It’s doom
Fear says
It’s nothing but sorrow
Sense says
It’s hopeless
Love says
It is what it is
Pride says
It’s ridiculous
Caution says
It’s reckless
Experience says
It’s not practical
Love says
It is what it is
Random words in another language leading to a fantastic poem. Do you do stuff like this or is it just me?
Think And / Or Smile
Something I hold dear.
This is what I believe in.
My ‘why‘…
To create an intellectual and emotional response in people.
Making folks think and / or smile.
Sometimes I fail.
Sometimes I achieve.
What do you believe in?
Creativity Is Not A Talent | Cultivating Innovation
Habitat cultivates habit (UPDATE: video now blocked due to copyright infringement. Other versions are here)
The above video is a feast for the brain / heart and introduces the conditions for creativity:
- Space—obviously, both the physical and psychological
- Time—half of creating the oasis
- Time—to play with the problem and solving it with something original
- Confidence—to get things wrong
- Humour—getting us from the closed to the open mode/mindset in the quickest way possible
For me the most compelling idea in the whole presentation is that creativity is not an in-built-DNA-traceable-disposition.
It’s something which can be learned.
Cultivated.
Encouraged.
So, do the organisations / companies we create / work for foster the above conditions so creativity / innovation can blossom?