Rougemont Global Broadcasting plans for three months and five years #RGBplan #EX1to4

This is a note as of this morning, there may be revisions in time for Monday.

Despite the rain the summer drift phase seems to have started. the next tech event is Cross Media Live in September. There are signs that the print world is ready for a detailed look at what is going on. Cambridge University Press is getting out of litho. Frank Romano is working on the production values for whattheythink  video.

http://www.crossmedialive.com/

So something may have been clear at drupa. But here in the UK not much will happen till after London returns to normal after the Olympics. Her in Devon the Sidmouth Folk Week will be another occasion for social media. The music stays mostly acoustic but the video has been cutting edge for a while now, at least social acceptance of a creative commons style. The audience has to do some searching and editing to find all the camera angles. The limitation is that local news channels can only put on YouTube what they actually broadcast. So if an ITV crew spend an afternoon in the Anchor Garden there will still be only three minutes that makes it to the public. Surely there could be legislation about this sort of thing.

http://www.sidmouthfolkweek.co.uk/index.php?page=sidmouth-2012

I will be looking out for phone cameras in actual use. Please make a note when loading to YouTube. I am still happy with the Kodak Zi8 and uploading from a card within a few days or so.

The 5 year plan assumes there is broadband in the UK and phone cameras similar to the current iPad ( by the way I find HD at 720 is ok for YouTube, 1080 just takes longer to upload) . Then with search tags for localities ( for example #EX1to4 ) there can be any quantity of local news. This could also be virtual worlds. I don't know what is happening with ExitReality3D and Twinity or whether the street maps will come back. Continuity announcing in a 3D world is likely to be cheaper than a real studio.

Around the time of Cross Media Live there may be a face to face version of #mtw3 and also a Futures Conference at the London College of Communication. From an online point of view it won't matter much if the dates are months apart. Issues include how academic publishing includes video. Journals seem to have moved to digital without much disruption of anything else.

The three month plan is to visit Sidmouth and consider the credibility of the five year plan.

Rougemont Global Broadcasting plans for three months and five years #RGBplan #EX1to4

This is a note as of this morning, there may be revisions in time for Monday.

Despite the rain the summer drift phase seems to have started. the next tech event is Cross Media Live in September. There are signs that the print world is ready for a detailed look at what is going on. Cambridge University Press is getting out of litho. Frank Romano is working on the production values for whattheythink  video.

http://www.crossmedialive.com/

So something may have been clear at drupa. But here in the UK not much will happen till after London returns to normal after the Olympics. Her in Devon the Sidmouth Folk Week will be another occasion for social media. The music stays mostly acoustic but the video has been cutting edge for a while now, at least social acceptance of a creative commons style. The audience has to do some searching and editing to find all the camera angles. The limitation is that local news channels can only put on YouTube what they actually broadcast. So if an ITV crew spend an afternoon in the Anchor Garden there will still be only three minutes that makes it to the public. Surely there could be legislation about this sort of thing.

http://www.sidmouthfolkweek.co.uk/index.php?page=sidmouth-2012

I will be looking out for phone cameras in actual use. Please make a note when loading to YouTube. I am still happy with the Kodak Zi8 and uploading from a card within a few days or so.

The 5 year plan assumes there is broadband in the UK and phone cameras similar to the current iPad ( by the way I find HD at 720 is ok for YouTube, 1080 just takes longer to upload) . Then with search tags for localities ( for example #EX1to4 ) there can be any quantity of local news. This could also be virtual worlds. I don't know what is happening with ExitReality3D and Twinity or whether the street maps will come back. Continuity announcing in a 3D world is likely to be cheaper than a real studio.

Around the time of Cross Media Live there may be a face to face version of #mtw3 and also a Futures Conference at the London College of Communication. From an online point of view it won't matter much if the dates are months apart. Issues include how academic publishing includes video. Journals seem to have moved to digital without much disruption of anything else.

The three month plan is to visit Sidmouth and consider the credibility of the five year plan.

Michael Gove still right about BETT #natcur ‏@govewatch @tes

With all the fuss about Gove ideas on Maths and English I think it is worth reminding us all that the Gove speech at BETT had some very sensible points. It remains to be seen how things will work out but the idea of some flexibility around computer and web skills has potential. It has been suggested that Gove was influenced by large companies at BETT such as Google but I think he formed his own views. The speech is on YouTube with a Creative Commons licence so can be remixed. This is not yet usual for UK public content so should be seen as an informed and positive decision.

My only worry is that for some people in the department IT and web stuff is seen as not that significant so a tightly specified knowledge is not really needed. Writing in the Times Educational Supplement today Nick Gibb mentions Orwell and spelling, Beethoven and practicing scales, then Einstein and the times tables. "Media literacy" is just one of the things that campaign groups lobby MPs about and want included in the curriculum.

Stay tuned to BETT radio, an informed source on who will be speaking at BETT.

Nick Gibb writes that recent developments started with a look at the "most successful education systems around the world" - Singapore, Hong Kong, Massachusetts and Alberta. My guess is that there may be some connection with government support for broadband. Is there any research about this?

Twinity, situation report #mtw3 exit reality 3d as seen on YouTube

Recent news about Twinity is that it hjas been bought by Exit Reality.

Not sure what changes there could be. I hope they bring back the streets. I still think the map info should be cheap if there are links to purchase of actual maps. A while ago I was so lost in virtual Berlin that I bought an actual street map. this was before the Google map showed up in a corner.

Exit Reality seem to be into 3D in most forms.They are on YouTube as ExitReality3D. Several examples going quite a way back. Search blinxx video from 2008 for example. The date is interesting. There have been various times that online virtual worlds have been promoted to a wider audience but it never seems to work that well. The bandwidth requirement is quite large, more than available in most of the UK as it actually exists. Maybe 2012 will be different, depending on what Exit Reality has in mind.

They also operate through 

http://www.learnbrite.com/

This is about learning and education. 3D is just one aspect along with mobile and web. Retail is in there also. This sounds like a secure base to fund some entertainment.

Previously I was suggesting Twinity as a space for #mtw3 to include a virtual builing of the Work Foundation. St  Pauls has been an example of a building with both street view and inside to scale. I think the inside is still available. I don't know what the budget would be like and it may have to wait till there is some clarity on Twinity future. But discussion continues on how virtual worlds relate to real places. At #mamllnet there was the example of Terra Incognita in Second Life. Other options are available.

But I hope Twinity comes back and then extends. My original timeline assumed that London in Twinity would include Islington Green in time for the Olympics. The walking route along the canal is actually quite complex when the canal is underground. There is a way from King's Cross but only a 3D model can effectively explain this. Otherwise the route from Regent's Park to Victoria Park is not that complex. There may still be time to get this online in time for the Olympics but probably not in time for Bobby Womack in Victoria Park quite soon.

Scientific Leadership, still looking for clues #mtw3 learn9

I am now back in Exeter and have loaded several videos from Lancaster to YouTube. The 30 year celebration of the MA in 
Management Learning and Leadership featured a wealth of content, mostly not ion the form of an A4 handout or link to a journal. So the video is interesting as I find when editing that there is much I had forgotten. Or at least not thought about.

John Burgoyne continues to make a case about the "end of leadership". See this blog post from last year

http://henleydlmba.wordpress.com/2011/08/24/beyond-leadership-is-it-approaching-its-sell-by-date/

(the second part of his talk, about a "state of salvation" will be included in a future post)

YouTube should display the earlier version based on slides and sound from two previous talks.

Towards the end it turns out that there may be a form of leadership that is "scientific" though this may have been a joke at one stage of the talk's development. As background I asked during the two days about "Management Science" and "Management Learning". These still seem to be regarded as different academic subjects. This makes not a lot of sense for practitioner managers trying to do a job. Many situations require aspects of various theories. I notice that Peter Checkland has written more about learning as he appears to be more in retirement than part of the department. Perhaps John Burgoyne will write more about systems in the next few years.

If there is Management Science then there could be Leadership Science but there is not much about it. I just thought I should check this rather general statement and Google finds this

http://www.leadershipscience.com/

So I will check this later without changing the drift of this blog post. My impression is still that in the UK Scientific Leadership is not much discussed.

I think there would be or is a connection with quality management and the Deming learning cycle, or Shewart cycle or PDC/SA or whatever is thought to be in ISO management standards. This is based on some sort of scientific method. Mention of "voice of the customer", "voice of the process" etc. suggests leadership as a process, not charisma. 

I have another blog about learning with ISO9000 though recently I mostly post in this one. There may be updates there as I discover more about leadership science.

http://learn9log.blogspot.co.uk/

The social media phase of #mtw3 continues. The first two Management Theory at Work conferences were about a decade ago. There will be a face-to-face event at the Work Foundation in September. This will be a chance to discuss more about leadership science and look at what has been found online.

http://mtw3.blogspot.co.uk/

Avatars on the agenda for #mosocoop group approach on a Model of Sustainable Organisation

I was recently at a meeting of the group working on MoSO, an update on Deming thinking. There is a lot of material mostly in PDF files with a website to connect and explain. The site is hosted by the Chartered Quality Institute.

http://www.thecqi.org/moso

The group works in a co-operative way and wants to reach an audience wider than the professionals already working on quality. The use of "MoSO co-operative" will be promoted as well as the Deming SIG of the CQI which is bit too long for some situations.

There was also discussion on how to produce video from events given that sometimes remarks might not be suitable to be made public. A balance is required between a full discussion and a public record. Video records of events can fairly quickly extend the audience for an event but it may be that avatars and slight fiction would best suit the role of linking and presenting some actual clips.

This was good news for Linda Shelton who visited with an update on #mtw3, the third conference on Management Theory at Work and Source Dubious the gossip blogger from Fleet Street in Twinity. 

#mosocoop also finds several videos already on YouTube.

Photos from #mamllnet now on Flickr

Here are some photos from the MA MLL 30 year event on Flickr

Descriptions will follow later. Please add comments if you know what could go there.

Also parts two and three of eLearning and Social Media are now on YouTube. Search on mamllnet should find it.

YouTube from #mamllnet - 30 year event on art and innovation in Management Learning

I am now back in Exeter, starting to load up video from trip to Lancaster and Birmingham. (No video from Birmingham, lowkey event about quality but there may be some stills later with avatars to ensure confidentiality.)

In Lancaster there was an event to celebrate 30 years of the MA in Management Learning and Leadership. This was mostly in the Hub area of the Management School. 

I have done four videos so far, starting with John Burgoyne again. Previously there were videos based on two sound recordings and the slides. These new ones are not well lit but at least the slide sequence and timing is correct. He is getting quicker also, the timings are closer to YouTube standards, though this is changing also (some talks are almost two hours but twenty minutes is better I think)

There is also one on Virtual Action Learning. My impression is that virtual worlds were noticed in universities a few years ago but then  widely ignored as bandwidth was a problem for most students. They seem to be coming back again. Terra Incognita in Second Life is well set up and my colleague Sally Potter has started to visit.

Social Media and eLearning are well connected in this next one. More later when I have loaded parts two and three. It takes a while.

Systems, Learning, links through YouTube, maybe virtual worlds later @mamllnet #cqimoso

 I am in  Lancaster ahead of a meeting later this week about 30 years of Management Learning and Leadership. The sun is shining so I am checking out the environment also. Waterstones now has sofas and coffee. I will get further than a bookshop soon.

 

Through Twitter I find that Soft Systems has also had a 30 year occasion. And thanks to Lancaster University Television most of it is on Youtube.

 

 

follow links to other clips

or start here

http://www.lums.lancs.ac.uk/media/mansci/checkland-colloquium/

 

YouTube also suggests this from Peter Senge

 

he talks about education towards the end. I still don't really understand why at Lancaster there is such a distinction between learning and systems. Peter Senge seems to get away with mixing things together. Tweet suggestions welcome but I may not reply this week. Maybe sometime soon.

 

Next week I am heading south via Birmingham where there is a review of a Deming project. Search Youtube on #cqimoso should work or

http://www.thecqi.org/moso

 

There could be more done with video. I will look out for Lancaster University TV. Maybe some casual clips will turn up also.

 

I am also interested in virtual worlds. this post is from a borrowed laptop so I don't have Twinity loaded. But Facebook works ok and I notice there will be another attempt to crash Kitely on Saturday.

https://www.facebook.com/events/318074068268101/

This is the sort of thing that moves along sometime later when the crash is just a memory. So I'm glad someone else is trying it. There are links to learning theory also.

@jangles #likeminds podcasting to extend Wild Show on Phonic?

http://www.nevillehobson.com/

This is just a note for future posts. I am away next week for a fortnight or so but when I return I will check with people at Phonic on how to extend radio. Neville Hobson spoke at #likeminds for about an hour on Podcasting and it is all on a Creative Commons basis. so I will try to do an edit later. He assumes a podcast is about the length of a radio programme but I think on YouTube it is better to break things down a bit.

Phonic FM is round the corner from the #likeminds Conference Centre and there is no official listen again feature. Various shows turn up in various ways. I think this is to be explored.

Neville mentioned that his podcast has started to include some video conferencing through Google + and that other video conferencing options are available. So I think video will extend the podcast scene.

Meanwhile I found a news item about how TV is viewed

http://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/175519/net-connected-tv-grows-ad-impressions.html?edition=47346

so this could change if more people get confused as to where video comes from. I certainly am.

This will be linked to the Wild Show Facebook page where there may be some comment.

Rougemont Giraffes the Backstory ‏@talesofthings

I realise that the recent YouTube clip with JD explaining the giraffes needs a bit of background. It is a new stage for me when the radio show results in at least one other person realising most of what I am going on about. So much so I am trying to stick to facts. I did have a sort of fiction for Gripping Yarns but this was not performed. I became the sort of character who starts an uninvited conversation in a cafe, for example about the missing giraffe and how it could be recreated through technology. You are not sure what to make of such a person, especially as the tech claims get more ambitious.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1aBOGiUeTihwVEUTB9khtvjK9D9fPjifzdZNY1AMARgY/edit

But here is JD as a listener who has pretty much accepted the story.

Previously on the Wild Show (Phonic FM Thursday 10-12) I explained some of this to Chris and edited the sound with a clip from BETT

connectededucation.com  arranged the demo. This was  a Playstation portable but the same could work with other devices

Before that I did a clip from Apps World about  Aurasma

So now we need to find an actual 3D giraffe and someone to link it all together. Maybe a smaller scale project would be sensible. But I think the principle is ok. And the gardens are a well lit studio for the next few months.

Tales of Things starts with a memory of the giraffe in a proper place. It may be too late to find good photos of this. But Tales of Things continues to link codes and memory.

http://www.talesofthings.com/

More background, Ghostwriter has used some technology, maybe more will turn up in RAMM later.

http://soundcloud.com/will789gb/ghostwriter-sample-on-wild

Twinity stills from the New Berlin and Lubins in Morecombe

Next week I will be in Lancaster and away from Twinity most of the time. Though the Boland Forest is quite similar to the hills behind my beach which somehow Twinity has arranged near Northampton. sometimes I wonder where they get the map info and why it is so expensive. If it is.

Anyway back on topic. My colleague Linda is still based in Morecombe and has photos on the wall of the InfoLab 21 where tech visions may start, a tree near the Management School where implications are evaluated, and a sofa at home where tech may be accepted in society. So conversation could be here if you find Lubins on Twinity.

I think Twinity has started to do a sort of pastiche of cities that gets round any copyright issues for the map info. Berlin has got an arch and then the hills are quite close. I started in the Twinity Berlin before the other cities were built. Somehow being able to walk between the Sony Centre and Humboldt suggested to me that academics could relate well to consumer electronics. As a space for discussion it worked ok, even if you have to copy stills to Facebook to explain it. So this new Berlin might expand a bit.

If they get to a canal it could double up for the Grand Union. We just need sets to get started. 

Ordnance Survey, Creative Commons, #likeminds, Twinity, Alan Moore

I'm looking through notes from #likeminds and the excellent blog that is even better than my memory. There is a link from the talk by Alan Moore to a detail on the Ordnance Survey use of Creative Commons.

http://wearelikeminds.com/live/alan-moore-a-navigation-guide-to-a-better-future

http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/2012/04/ian_holt_senior_developer_programme.html

The thing is, Twinity has backed off from a model of real cities. I think this has to do with rights to map info or the costs of such. Previously they had a 3D model of central Berlin, Singapore, Miami, New York and London. Now there are just the apartments and cafes etc. Also some new roughs of a "New Berlin" of which more later.

My main question is, if the Ordnance Survey are prepared to think about Creative Commons, what is the problem with info at the level Twinity need it? Is it a secret that Charing Cross Road is close to Trafalgar Square? Could there be a sponsorship arrangement. Better maps are available. Something like that.

Meanwhile I am exploring New Berlin and other places. It works ok but not quite the same. I think a Twinity London should be back in full force in time for the Olympics. I have suggested a canal side route from Regent's Park to Victoria Park. Around Islington Green and King's Cross it can get a bit complicated as the canal is underground and the footpaths are various. This is a situation where detailed maps should be allowed imho.

Anyway I shall try to Tweet this to the proper authorities and hope something can be worked out.

clips from yesterday on Wild Show, could fit with podcast talk at #likeminds

Yesterday I did some clips from the Wild Show on Phonic FM. Guest Tony Giles joined us for coffee in the Phoenix Bar so the lighting is much better. Later JD and I visited Rougemont Gardens where the lighting is even better. The next few months are the best time for social video. We hope to find a wheelchair route to this spot. Chris actually has an iPhone so could test any giraffe superimposition that turns up. at the moment there are steps on the route directly from RAMM.

http://soundcloud.com/will789gb/could-be-a-podcast-extract

three minutes, too quick for a podcast? I will have a better idea later today.

copied from tweet via #likeminds graphic on what happens online

<br />Infographic by- Shanghai Web Designers

grumpy demand for some simple txt plz Adobe Touch Apps

I clicked on the ad

Then I got the video

http://www.adobe.com/solutions/solutions-touchapps.html#bodycontent1-neroli3gallery_0_split_Adobe_Touch_Apps_Launch_Stinger_708x398.mp4

but it makes not a lot of sense

Which apps are actually available?

What do they do?

Could there be 500 words of txt?

or a two page PDF?

Social Media and Business Schools

I came across this through stephendale, who I follow on YouTube.

There is a one screen mention for HULT International Business School towards the end. i had never heard of them but apparently they are a private enterprise university with several campus locations on a global basis.

The video claims that in ten years 40% of the Fortune 400 companies will no longer be here. What do they teach in business schools? If the idea of a learning organisation is still around then the rate of destruction could be lower.

If the approach in this video is roughly right though, Facebook shares are obviously cheap.

drupa definitely digital, almost a conclusion from Frank and Andy #whattheythink #futureprint

Yesterday evening there was a Tweetjam using #futureprint hosted by Cary Sherburne for WhatTheyThink. I thought it went really well and showed that new forms of media can be used to discuss print like anything else. Some of the ideas are a bit futurist, such as inkjet chocolate manufacture.

Today there are a couple of links to a video from Frank Romano and part one of an article by Andy Tribute. Frank is making a case for paper, especially with plenty of sparkle and cut-outs that tell a story. He obviously covered most of the show as the two companies he mentions are not well known. Andy Tribute has a lot of detail on equipment, some not widely available till IPEX in 2014. I notice this comment-

"....in terms of generating attention offset was a minor player. I am sure however if one looks at the show in terms of value of orders taken that offset will have taken the larger share..."

From the Tweetjam I can gather that digital media of all kinds are now accepted. Offset is part of a mix and a workflow. There was more mention of the Cloud as an option for MIS and Web2Print. For most people buying print the exact method of production may not matter very much.

Andy Tribute continues-

"..will Landa’s Nanographic Printing being the main technology for the future, or will either new generation liquid toner presses such as those from Océ and Xeikon, or inkjet B2 or continuous feed high-speed presses be shown to be the technology for the future? Or will there be a space for all of them? Can they compete with advanced offset presses in changing the market? Well for my thoughts on that you will have to wait until Part 2 of this article."

or you may have to wait till 2014.

http://whattheythink.com/video/58222-frank-romano-gives-us-his-two-hottest-things-drupa/

http://whattheythink.com/articles/58201-digital-printing-drupa-part-1

Hello Spiders - expanded but not updated

Hello Spiders - 2007

This is from 2007. Same structure as the recent one I think but more links to blogs etc. I am still working on an edit but I'm not sure readers will follow the lack of chronolgy.

News is moving beyond newspapers ‏@rossdawson

Through Twitter I found a graphic about the claimed decline of newspaqpers, dates vary for different locations

http://rossdawsonblog.com/weblog/archives/2011/10/revisiting-the-newspaper-extinction-timeline-on-its-first-anniversary.html

The UK and Iceland are shown for 2019 newspaper extinction, behind USA in 2017.

This reminded me of an ad in the print Guardian on Monday so I had another look. Newsworks is the new name for the Newspaper Marketing Agency just as newsbrands is the new name for newspapers.

http://www.nmauk.co.uk/nma/do/live/haveYouSeen?haveYouSeenModel=22323

more explanation in this set of links to reports. The page ad in the Gujardian has a photo of a dog carrying a tablet with logos that look a lot like existing newspaper titles.

So the UK has got the message and is a few years ahead of the Ross Dawson schedule.

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Ross Dawson ‏@rossdawson

Important: Researchers develop ‘smart’ touch-responsive internet-enabled newspaper http://bit.ly/K7fSYO

Paul Egglestone is at Central Lancashire University not Lancaster. Just a quibble but Preston is not the same.