Upcoming events – June 2013

I've got a couple of public events coming up in the next month if you're interested: I'm running a short online presentation for The Marketer magazine on the subject of Online Communities on June 5th 1-2pm London time. You can register for that here, and if you are a CIM member it can count towards … Continue reading Upcoming events – June 2013

Weeknote 147: insert obligatory snooker joke here

  Achievements this week included: - shaping of a couple client events coming up in the next month - one retailer, one marketer - some positive reflections on The Consumer at Work event... - ... and finding some folk interested in taking the format idea further - good catch up with former Imagination colleagues - … Continue reading Weeknote 147: insert obligatory snooker joke here

Weeknote 146: consumers at work

Achievements this week included: - a successful event with software houses, enterprise customers and agencies at Modern Jago - a fun conversation in the heart of start-up land with Shhmooze CEO @michellegallen - a peer into the world of Geo with some time at a Bing Maps app event Next week: a moment to reflect, … Continue reading Weeknote 146: consumers at work

Bing Maps Apps event: slides and links

Here's the slides from my presentation today at the Bing Maps event: http://sdrv.ms/10mKUkM There's a bit more commentary on the content here: https://mmitii.mattballantine.com/2012/01/09/types-of-app-business-models/ and here: https://mmitii.mattballantine.com/2013/04/18/seven-reasons-to-app/

The Consumer at Work: slides

We spent an entertaining day today at our East London venue Modern Jago with a mix of folk from software companies, design agencies and big enterprises thinking about how consumerisation is impacting the world of business systems. Over the next day or so the slides from the event and notes taken during the day will … Continue reading The Consumer at Work: slides

Weeknote 145: on the farm

Achievements this week included: - preparations for next week's Modern Jago event 'The Consumer at Work' - a fine team building event down on the farm - two days offsite with the management team Next week: it's neither premier, nor a ship... (but promotion would be fun nonetheless)

Weeknote 144: speaking of which

Achievements this week included: - a successful series of speaking engagements including TH_NKTank.... - ... Em Stone's mobile app evening... - ... tech days online... - ... And the IPA DBG - some interesting developments on the new project - plus plan b emerges Next week: skiing and a trip to the farm

Weeknote 143: parentally

Achievements this week included: - final tweaks (almost) to the IPA session next Friday - presenting to the full team on the App Acceleration work we did a couple of months ago - planning for an editorial theme of business of apps next month - pulling together a presentation for a mobile apps event next … Continue reading Weeknote 143: parentally

Weeknote 142: hundreds and thousands

Achievements this week included: - good planning sessions for the event we're hosting with the IPA at the end of the month - a great seminar on the subject of Digital for the CIM - some intriguing conversations with an old colleague now at Virgin... - ... and with others on what will now be … Continue reading Weeknote 142: hundreds and thousands

Weeknote 141: Post 700

Achievements this week included: - this, my 700th blog post. Nothing but a number, but a number nonetheless. - some fascinating catch ups with colleagues old and new - more planning on the ISV/Enterprise/Agency event in May - the beginning of a plan for the celebration of (what would have been) my Granddad's 100th birthday … Continue reading Weeknote 141: Post 700