This is quickly becoming a common figurine in Calabria, Italy, popping up in smal craft shops and supermarket chains. This was shot in the lodge at the beautiful, sacred woods of Santa Maria in Serra San Bruno, Italy.
Serra San Bruno, originally uploaded by KenEKaplan.
Tom Foremski has been saying this to me and many others for years: we’re in conversation overload. I agree, but I still see many people feeling like they’re in information overload. Both leave you starving for time to “get away” and “think.”
Today reading his “IMHO” ZDNet blog “We live in the conversation age and not the thinking age,” I felt the wonderful blend of new world desires tempered with old school reality. He does that so well. This got me thinking, “How do people do it?” “How am I staying on top of my game…of life?”
There are prolific people like Robert Scoble (coverage from Davos — even this YouTube brush with Bono paraphrasing writer Thomas Friedman: “don’t change your lightbulbs…change your leaders!”), Jeremiah Owyang (just spoke at Intel’s sales conference) and others who quickly, regularly consumer tons of “content,” blog posts, news, videos…then they make sense of what’s valuable, put it into context for themselves and share it. This is a creative process that require a wondrous metabolism. On top of that, they’re out meeting people, talking at events and helping, inspiring friends and business acquaintances to learn and move ahead.
I don’t have the wondrous metabolism, but I have changed some things in the past few years. I’ve pulled passion up front and center. I’ve opened up more and tried to help more people — more willing to make mistakes and more eager to include others who can help me. Although I’ve been temporarily separated from my wife and kids for 18 months, I dedicate time for talking, thinking, praying and taking care of necessities for them. I’d like my efforts to be more thoughtful and trusted by those I’m with, but this requires self enlightening time, time for dreaming and securing one foot on the ground.
So I’d agree that we’re swarmed by many conversations. Rather then duck and cover, I try to suck it up! Run with it. Remember my principles and build my character every chance I get. Whether its information or conversation or creation overload, what we do for ourselves and one another is only as good as our minds are sharp, spirits are alive, bodies are in motion and hearts are pumpin’ with love.
I better get more slim moleskin notepads!! By the way, I agree that Portland is a place the lets you think…or not think when you want. Love that city!
Cool video highlights of Intel inside and all around CES 2008. “Don’t be encumbered by history…go off and do something wonderful” is an Intel inspirational quote from co-founder and first CES Robert Noyce.
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Jennifer Jones’ “Marketing Voices” caught CNET’s Rafe Needleman at the PodTech BlogHaus at CES 2008. Needleman tells how CNET’s doin’ their thing and shares his views on “traditional” versus new media. Jones and Needleman discuss the frustration of journalists who wish many of the bloggers had more academic training and knowledge.
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I learned from Jackson West tonight that WordPress is getting even better! I’m gonna bump up to the pro account!
From his post today:
In addition to receiving a generous new round of venture capital, Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com (and the backend provider for NewTeeVee and the rest of the GigaOM network), has announced a storage upgrade for users. Combined with the beta video player, server-side transcoding and a new Flash-based uploading interface due to be released shortly, this makes the $20-a-year WordPress.com pro account a simple, turnkey solution for videoblog and podcast publishing.
Leaders from many countries are meeting in Davos, Switzerland this week to share wisdom, pain and real plans for making the world a better place.
We have more access to who’s there, what they’re saying and what are the real big ideas that can really be put into action. I’ll be tuning into YouTube and sharing some on Facebook (Intel World Ahead) some of the things Intel Chairman Craig Barrett and his team are doing at Davos. There’s a cool “The Davos Question” YouTube site where people can upload videos and share the stories they want world leaders to hear.
The Power of Collaborative Innovation is this year’s theme. What’s powerful is when we can begin to see leaders join forces and integrate their great efforts to make a bigger, quicker and more meaningful impact in places around the world.
Dr. Barrett will show how he is leading commitments to invest in teachers, education tools and even healthcare efforts around the world. In the February issue of Fast Company, Dr. Barrett tells it like it is — he’s working hard with many leaders around the world, and making real progress.
“The various ministers and presidents always ask Intel to build a plant in their country to create jobs,” says a former Intel senior executive. “That is obviously not possible, at least not in every country around the world. So the Intel execs give an answer along the lines of, ‘We understand your desire to join the digital revolution, and we are going to do even better than building a plant. We are going to train your teachers in the use of technology.'” That, says the former exec, means “more good PR at a reasonable cost.”
The Fast Time story — “Intel’s Amazon Ambitions” — focuses on Intel World Ahead efforts called “The Most Remote Digital City,” a WiMAX equipped city of Parintins located in the heart of the Amazon.
“The demonstration projects are a rip-off of the Nike slogan, ‘Just do it,'” says Barrett. “I’ve given presentations around the world about the latest broadband wireless technologies. People will say, ‘That’s very interesting,’ and go away. But if you do a demonstration like Parintins in their backyard, people take notice. And they start to say, ‘This is not theory. Look, it’s real. You can touch it.'”
The Fast Company article ends:
Hardly the hyperbolic digital makeover of Intel’s initial press release. “These kids now have a little more opportunity than they did before,” Barrett says, “and we’re seeding the forest for the next billion trees.” Not to mention the next billion customers.
Here a related videointerview with Dr. Barrett from February 2007. You can hear his heart’s in it!
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This is fun, done quickly and incredibly creative and memorable video about the new thin laptop, MacBook Air. Even Nats video description is great:
Has Apple considered the implications of its glorification of thin models? Has it once considered the feelings of my “big boned” HP, and how she’s felt living in a society where you’re only as attractive as you are THIN? And what about the young processors that are at an impressionable age. Do they need this pressure? I think not.
The more I see, the more I want one…or two! I\’m not the only one feeling this way after CES 2008.
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Impressive to see NBC go all out at CES — a huge presence! A whole booth devoted to broadcast live NBC and CNBC shows, and using their Website all the while. They became the story for many media watchers and social media buzzhounds.
Today Intel’s new CFO Stacy Smith did his first TV interviews explaining the company’s quarterly earnings. Record revenues but Wall Street had its way.
It’s interesting to see how Jim Goldman’s one-on-one interview with Stacy was released first on the Web. Much of it has to do with the timing — Intel announces earnings after the bell, making it difficult to feature the live interview in a show. So why hold the interview to air first the next morning in its entirety on cable? The value of web video audiences is gaining more ground, nipping on the heals of how media bosses value of broadcast audiences.
It’d be great if CNBC would let me copy and embed their videos into my blog. Coming soon?
Shel Israel is definitely among my top favorite social media wisemen and Jennifer Jones has a nice insight into Shel and so many communication gurus doing great things.
Like so many, I believe there’s an unstoppable swell of social media energy and needs inside companies and industries around the world. It’s up to us to help companies, industry and government leaders understand why we ought to keep forging into new ways of communicating better using the Internet. Younger folks, even my own kids, are already using the Internet like I used to use the phone, radio, TV and the yellow pages. Heck, my five-year-old knows how to answer a Skype call and turn on the video chat!
Let’s keep movin’ ahead with it!!
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Movin' Ahead 