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Transformation and Innovation

May 30, 2019June 12, 2019 Cameron D. Norman 265 Views 0 Comments aesthetics, AI, change, Charles and Ray Eames, design, developmental design, developmental evaluation, Facebook, innovation ecosystem, Instagram, Jaron Lanier, Living History, Marshall McLuhan

Innovation can involve small adjustments or great transformations. Social media provides a case study for understanding why ongoing monitoring and

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Genetic engineering for your brand

April 5, 2018April 5, 2018 Cameron D. Norman 110 Views addiction, behaviour change, brand, business, business model, DNA, emotion, emotional baggage, epigenetics, Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, marketing, organizational psychology, psychology, system dynamics, systems science

DNA doesn’t predetermine our future as biological beings, but it does powerfully influence it. Some have applied the concept of ‘DNA’

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My troubled relationship with social media

April 1, 2016 Cameron D. Norman 84 Views Clay Shirky, Douglas Rushkoff, Facebook, Instagram, journalism, LinkedIn, mental health, mindfulness, Pinterest, psychology, social media, social networks, technology, Twitter, YouTube

Do you care about donuts? I did, once. I’m not so sure anymore. I used to love donuts, was passionate

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Frogs, Pots, Blogs and Social Media

December 30, 2015 Cameron D. Norman 197 Views blogging, climate change, complexity, design, Facebook, Hossein Darakhshan, information design, information literacy, information technology, ISIS/ISIL, journalism, obesity, politics, social media, social networks, systems thinking, terrorism, wicked problems

Our information landscape has been compared with our diets providing an ample opportunity to compare what we ‘consume’ with how

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Social innovation, social inclusion

August 27, 2015August 28, 2015 Cameron D. Norman 86 Views Apple, culture, design, Facebook, gender, innovation, Silicon Valley, social innovation, social media

Social innovation is about bringing new ideas, products and services out into society with others for social benefit and improving

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The New Zombie

October 24, 2013 Cameron D. Norman 123 Views CDC, Clay Shirky, complex systems, contemplative inquiry, design thinking, Facebook, John Bohannon, journalism, metacognition, mindfulness, mobile phones, organizational change, public health, research, resilience, science, social media, systems thinking, The Economist, tribes, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, zombie

Information is everywhere (and if you live in cities, people might be everywhere, too) and yet the volume of information we see is overwhelmed by what we do not see. Zombies are among us like information and because of that information might be less attuned to what is going on around them. This has enormous consequences and most of it is not good.

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One leg, two leg, three leg, more?

September 5, 2013September 5, 2013 Cameron D. Norman 64 Views anthropology, developmental design, developmental evaluation, emergence, evaluation, Facebook, feedback, relationships, Robin Dunbar, scale, scaling, shower, social innovation, social psychology, Star Trek

In Orwell’s classic Animal Farm the characters often oscillate between their evaluative assessments on the merits of two or four

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Social Media and the Changing Role of Journalists Covering It

October 13, 2012October 13, 2012 Cameron D. Norman 63 Views Facebook, Jack Dorsey, journalism, Mark Zuckerberg, OM Malik, social media, technology, Twitter

Om Malik from Giga OM writes today about the changing role of media and how the new media is transforming

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The Business Model of Social Media: Who Owns the Presses?

October 1, 2012 Cameron D. Norman 78 Views advertising, business model, capitalism, Facebook, innovation, Karl Marx, marketing, markets, social media, socialism, Twitter

When Karl Marx asked: Who owns the presses? he was referring to the ability of wealthy private individuals to control the means of knowledge production and dissemination and thus, influence society as capital owners, not as citizens. The unequal voice of the bourgeoisie over the proletariat was what gave them undue social power. But what happens when the owners and generators of wealth (knowledge, information) shift and the result is a community that relies on the medium of production without the control of it?

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Too Much Social Media, Not Enough Social Message

July 30, 2012July 30, 2012 Cameron D. Norman 93 Views Cluetrain manifesto, communication, complexity, Edmund Snow Carpenter, emergence, Facebook, idea markets, knowledge integration, knowledge translation, learning, markets, Marshall McLuhan, media ecology, social media, Twitter, Web 2.0, YouTube

Social media is any networked information technology, tool or platform that derives its content and principal value from user engagement

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