Digital Consultant links for February 19th through February 22nd

These are my links for February 19th through February 22nd:

  • What women want… from online games – Summary of research into habits of women who play social games. In short: they like to play for a short amount each week, they don't want to pay, they still feel stimatised as 'coming out' as a gamer.
  • Blogging Innovation: Four Models for Competitive Crowdsourcing – An explanation of how different forms of crowd engagement can work, by filtering through experts or directly to an audience, and the relative merits of both.
  • HOW TO: Make Your Small Business Geolocation-Ready – Mashable article great for retail and 'real world' businesses on places to get listed and take advantage of the new phenomena of connecting real world places with mobile digital interaction, e.g. virtual loyalty cards.
  • There’s No Future in Digital Strategy… – Well I may as well pack up and go home then.
    Ah…
    …But there will always be a future for strategy in a world going digital.
    It's subtle, I think I agree. It's a business strategy for a 'going digital world' not just limited to the strategy for what we do using digital. And this fits perfectly with the ethos of what Digital Consultant do: helping you to succeed by building strategies for the digital economy. Voila.
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Digital Consultant links for January 31st through February 3rd

These are my links for January 31st through February 3rd:

  • TRIZ – A powerful methodology for creative problem-solving – TRIZ is a technique of applying 40 different parameter queries to a problem which is used extensively by engineers. It's a technique that could, at some levels, apply to business process, e.g. considering segmentation, 'nesting' (store within a store), or local variations.
  • Six Ways to Find Social Media Talent – Some savvy words from Harvard Business Review on recruiting social media talent – that elusive combination between deep social media skills and fit with advancing your business objectives – which involves, basically, empowering other employees to recruit using social media tools in those spaces.
  • WikiLeaks whistleblower site in temporary shutdown – Sad news for open democracy: WikiLeaks, anonymous uncensored site closed due to lack of funds. The price of 'open information' is, it seems, to high.
  • Context is King: How Videos Are Found And Consumed Online – Great article featuring facts & figures on how people are consuming video content online. As cable TV and web video has increased overall consumption, the attention span of video duration and spread of number of views has shifted downwards, creating a mass divide between amateur and professional content. There is a rise in niche content, but a decrease in the likelihood of having a 'hit' which could come from either user-generated or professional content.
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Today’s Digital Consultant Links for November 23rd

These are my links for November 23rd from 19:10 to 20:14:

  • Entrepreneurs: Stop Innovating, Start Minnovating – Forget big scale change and disruptive innovation, start 'minnovating' small ordinary changes to make big business differences
  • North West: Europe’s Second Largest Media Hub – Obviously a wishful thinking rather than reality title (and with an odd soft porn-esque cover), this brochure gives an overview in case studies and numbers of the North West creative sector, with an emphasis on the investment and all those opportunities that the funders keenly hope will come out of MediaCity:UK.
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Digital Consultant links for November 2nd through November 3rd

These are my links for November 2nd through November 3rd:

  • Constant Transformation Is the New Normal – Piece by disruptive innovation expert Scott Anthony on how 'business as usual' ain't coming back: you need to be customer-focused, adaptable to change and have distinct, autonomous spaces for innovation.
  • Lord Mandelson sets date for blocking filesharers’ internet connections – In full: the timetable and approach for UK government to impose the "three strikes and your offline" policy to tackle file-sharing; which, interestingly, WASN'T a recommendation of Lord Carter's Digital Britain report from this year.
  • A fistful of (internet) dollars – The Guardian have produced this useful round up showing the size of the digital industries (music, TV, film, games, publishing) in 2000 compared to now, and how they are siddling with Lord Mandelson and the government on the issues around downloading and regulation.
  • To Be a Better Leader, Give Up Authority – Prof Vlatka Hlupic believes that in complex trading environments in knowledge industries, the leader who delegates more control to their workers can see improved levels of innovation and results. Command and control models are broke.
  • Expansive English Game Development Hub Discussed – The long-running 'games centre of excellence' proposal seems to be zoning in on becoming a reality, with a research, training and testing facility mooted to be established in MediaCity in Salford – which could put the noses out of joint in Liverpool, where most of the North West games industry are based.
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