All Blog Posts Tagged 'innovation' (18)

The Future of the Web - where will we be in 5 years

Whilst wandering around the Internet at lunchtime today I came across an interesting article by Cameron Chapman discussing the future of the Web and where it will be in 5 years time. Some of the items on the list include micro payments for quality content, more semantic content (and apps that expoit them), augmented reality in web apps and the reduction in importance of search engi… Continue

Added by Lynn Banks on November 4, 2009 at 1:24pm — No Comments

Art of With 2

Following the success of The Art of With seminar in June this year we are presenting The Art of With 2 on 23rd November this year. The Art of With featured essays from Charles Leadbeater and T… Continue

Added by Dave Moutrey on October 22, 2009 at 12:48pm — 1 Comment

Filmtrip Wins Creative Industries Innovations Award .. Twice

CREATIVE INDUSTRIES INNOVATIONS SUCCESS The Dept Culture, Arts & Leisure announced a funding scheme called the 'Creative Industries Innovations Fund' [CIIF] last year. It was hugely popular and was a great insight into how many creative companies & individuals there are in N.Ireland. Filmtrip have been fortunate enough to have both of it's projects awarded : 'Holosuite', which is the partnership with Queens University's Sonic Arts Research Centre, investigating emotional respon… Continue

Added by Gawain Morrison on September 21, 2009 at 4:28pm — No Comments

My police described as 'timely', 'on the ball' and 'something that needs to happen now' at the SIPR conference

SIPR = The Scottish Institute of Policing Research. I attended their third conference yesterday. The emphasis was on the discussion of community policing, a term coined by John Aldersham back in the 70s, and first met with scepticism, which is what I thought my meet mypolice too. How very wrong I was. I took along visuals to aid my explanation to attendees as to what mypolice i… Continue

Added by rufflemuffin on September 3, 2009 at 1:38pm — No Comments

Alba Innovation Challenge - prize package worth £50,000

An exciting new competition has been launched to attract innovative new businesses to West Lothian. The Alba Innovation Challenge hopes to attract entries from firms who seek to gain commercial success through knowledge-based activity, such as software development, digital m… Continue

Added by Sue Bedford-Visser on September 1, 2009 at 5:30pm — 1 Comment

Mypolice heads down south

Well, its been a busy couple of weeks for mypolice. I’ve been down in London working with Think Public who are focused on using design to improve service experiences in the public sector. It was great for mypolice to… Continue

Added by rufflemuffin on July 22, 2009 at 12:48pm — No Comments

SICamp: My favorite submissions

So unless you've been under a rock lately (or not in the Tech scene in Edinburgh), you will know that the Social Innovation Camp is rolling into town. I've submitted two ideas of my own: GiveKnitting.org and Girls in Tech. But I've been keeping an eye on the other entries, and wanted to talk about my fav… Continue

Added by Kate Ho on May 22, 2009 at 5:00pm — 1 Comment

PICamp is in Belfast on Tuesday 26th May

There are only a few places left for Slugger O'Toole's PICamp in Belfast on the afternoon of (next) Tuesday the 26th May. Some of the questions that people will be asking: - Northern Ireland - what would O… Continue

Added by Paul Evans on May 20, 2009 at 5:06pm — 1 Comment

The Art of With, New essay by Charles Leadbeater published today

How should a contemporary arts organisation work with audiences, artists and curators in this early part of the 21st Century at a time when; • the boundaries between consumer and producer are becoming increasingly blurred, in a world of infinite communication possibilities, • where people are increasingly collaborating to create and innovate, • where many artists are working with the grain of these changes, • where new business models are developing with these approaches and embedded within them… Continue

Added by Dave Moutrey on April 29, 2009 at 11:02am — 3 Comments

Prizes announced at half-time for Social Innovation Camp call for ideas!

You've only got four weeks left to enter your idea for Social Innovation Camp Scotland. Over one weekend at the Saltire Centre, Glasgow we’re bringing together some of the best of the UK’s software developers and designers with those at the sharp end of social problems. Their mission will be to turn six back-of-the-envelope ideas that could change the world into social start-ups - complete with working software. And all in under 48 hours. And here's what the most promising idea will win: - Up… Continue

Added by Katherine Hui on April 28, 2009 at 10:50am — No Comments

Measuring the Contribution of Collaboration Technologies III - The Outside World

"Thank you for not discussing the outside world" (The Simpsons - sign outside the Springfield Retirement Community) No decision making framework would be complete without considering the outside world. There are four groups to conside… Continue

Added by Ray Macsweeney on April 23, 2009 at 7:06am — No Comments

Measuring the contribution of collaboration technologies Part II - Objectives, Organisationals and Outcomes

“The only things that evolve by themselves in an organization are disorder, friction, and malperformance” (Peter F Drucker) Collaboration technologies are a bit like Lego.

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Added by Ray Macsweeney on April 2, 2009 at 1:31pm — 2 Comments

Measuring the contribution of collaboration technologies

'Count what is countable, measure what is measurable. What is not measurable, make measurable' (attributed to Gallileo) I've recently been struggling with ways to measure the contribution of social media and other collaboration technologies for existing businesses… Continue

Added by Ray Macsweeney on March 25, 2009 at 10:46am — 3 Comments

What's that Mr Brown, Mr Obama, Mr Sarkosy. You want to put it all on green?

I'm just wondering if writing economic development papers is really a very simple process. 1. Watch bubble burst 2. Open word document "We need to grow our internet industry" 3. Find "internet" 4. Replace with "housing" 5. Save 6. Watch bubble grow 7. Watch bubble burst 8. Open… Continue

Added by Ray Macsweeney on February 26, 2009 at 4:11pm — No Comments

About state, structural and environmental support for start-ups, and why I think that makes 4IP interesting.

For one reason or another, I’ve spent most of the last week thinking about how innovation and entrepreneurship is promoted within an economy. In doing so, I’ve stumbled upon large amounts of documentation on “creating an innovation economy” and other such documents – primarily in the UK and Scotland. I've tried to pull together my thoughts on this subject in a coherent fashion to try and get at what I think could improve in how we as a society try and build and encourage our entrepreneurial vent… Continue

Added by Ray Macsweeney on February 24, 2009 at 7:27am — 5 Comments

Winning through Innovation Events

Whether you are a small company looking to change the nature of your business and develop your own products or services or an established company looking to develop leading edge products through the exploitation of new technology or bringing in new technical knowledge or expertise, Winning Through Innovation can help. Winning Through Innovation is a series of events with a compelling programme of motivational speaker… Continue

Added by Lynn Banks on February 23, 2009 at 3:30pm — No Comments

£5m programme to help creative industries commercialise IP

Hi everyone - forgive my shameless cut and paste job for this posting, but the following describes a competition which presents an exciting opportunity for media practitioners... The Technology Strategy Board is to invest an indicative £5m in a programme to help digital content creators and rights holders realise and maximise the commercial return potential from their intellectual property (IP). Target sectors are: Advertising, Computer games, Content creators, Digital content distribution, Di… Continue

Added by George Falconer on February 12, 2009 at 1:30pm — 3 Comments

4iP pushing forward, the right way...

All too often I hear about ideas where the success of the project lies in having a large number of users – the usual “and then with all these users it works amazingly like this and that and opens up the potential for so and so”. This is the point where in mid-conversation I frown; I’m not listening to the potential, I’m listening to the mechanisms that get it to the point of providing this potential. This is really a simple thing: a huge following of people can pretty much make an… Continue

Added by Sam Collins on November 28, 2008 at 2:08pm — 1 Comment

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