but yet again there was almost nothing about the national papers or the Guardian itself. A strange comment about Boris I could not understand as the main thing he said that I noticed was what a wonderful thing print is and please don't go online. Not that officially there is any announcement to go online anyway.
The editorial shows off an excellent journalism dodge. A future is imagined in which the UK High Street is in trouble, referenced to Comet as current news, maybe a sign. So let us talk about the end of printed Guardian Mon-Fri at some mysterious fact in the future, say 2015.
Last week Printweek suggested that the Guardian may go to contract printing. This might explain why the Express and Echo is on a Thursday. Sunday would make more sense, to develop as a magazine and to complement the Western Morning News. But maybe the same presses that produce it for a Thursday are also producing a weekend national as well. regional weekly titles could be phased to suit the remaining kit. Just a guess.
But please stop the reporting of the regional press as if the Guardian itself can just be assumed as never changing.
I still have to read it to find out about Haymarket. Though actually I think the most disruptive info on the UK may well come from the Daily Beast.
The LCC is about "digital media" and "games design". Please explain. What to think?
This week is the occasion for the latest Futures conference at the London College of Communication.
I have been to a few previous ones but they change quite a lot given changes in the College. Clearly these changes are in the past but they offer some clues as to what is in the future.
The name changed from London College of Printing. Then printing was part of Printing and Publishing. Then that went and now there is Design and Media. I am quite confused as to what the difference is or if there is a difference why any student would choose one or the other for a practical project.
The site for the conference mentions "Digital Media" and "Games Design" . Are these in different schools? Is all design now about gaming? Most web sites seem to set you a task and award points even if the original interest was in something else.
From the websites
Media
We offer courses in subject areas including photography, film, video and broadcast, journalism, media and cultural studies, animation, documentary film, screenwriting, sound arts, print media, public relations and publishing.
Graduates from the School of Design include John Brown (John Brown Citrus Publishing), Neville Brody (Typographic Design), Ruth Rogers (River Café), Jason Kedgley (Tomato), Angus Hyland (Pentagram), John Hegarty (BBH) and many others at the forefront of our subject.
There is also a link to Typography and Letterpress. So design may be mostly graphics.
Meanwhile through #mtw3 ( see recent posts of search) I have become aware of "Design Science" . So design has become a large subject with a base in management and teaching. Not sure when it becomes media though.
This morning on the Wild Show, Phonic FM we talked about Jackson Cooper and Riviera FM but knew not a lot about either. Now a bit of searching on blogs reveals a Twitter name and a YouTube channel.
So we can play some of this tomorrow if nothing else works out. 10-12 in morning
I have copied this and deleted some text. MoSO is a closed group and you need to join the CQI one first but I think they are both open enough, you won't need a subscription to the CQI. If there is a problem please comment. Search "MoSO CQI" should find .
I am trying out connections on LinkedIn this week. There is one copy below from #mtw3 so there is some basis.
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Teaching as a Design Science
I think the recent book by Diana Laurillard opens up a space for quality ideas to connect with learning, as theory and as organisations. she has commented on my blog post so I think I am not way out of scope so far. There is theory behind quality even if American Pragmatism is not often studied in the UK. But if an organisation is lacking in known ploicy, then something like design science comes in.
Tony Brown • Will there is teaching old knowledge and new knowledge and organisations need to adapt new knowledge to move on. This knowledge must have practical application on new products and service to add value to the organisation.
Will Pollard • Tony, I have added a bit to a cloud in cloudworks, a site by the Open University.
this started as an online version of a conference and so far the most interesting ideas are teaching as design science and also scientific leadership. Not sure what this is though. I'm hoping more will turn up in Cloudworks. Leadership as Design Science? I can sort of see how it would fit together but can't find any academic references. Not that this should stop us thinking of course.
found diagram in Facebook group on virtual worlds, this may fit
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Antony Upward • Perhaps I am mis-understanding - but I believe there is a huge amount of work on management, leadership and teaching from the design science perspective - works by Herbert Simon, Russel Ackoff and Roger Martin (The Design of Business) come strongly to mind - is this the type of thing you were thinking of (if so I can provide more links / ideas)?
Will Pollard • Antony, please say some more. I can well believe there is work already existing that is not widely known or maybe described differently in another context. Tony Brown above works on quality systems and I think this relates to design and possibly scientific leadership. But I don't find much putting design in some sort of quality loop or descriptions of system review as a process.
(Aside: if this thinking of interest to CQI/MoSO we should talk further. Send me an email; BTW my philiosphical stance in this research is "critical pragamatism", and while I'm in Toronto I hail from the UK!)
OK to your question: design, quality and systems. Wow where to start.
Herbert Simon (1969, p.139) said: "Everyone designs who devises course of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones." Clearly anyone undertaking a TQM program is looking to improve situations. Hence by this definition any TQM program involves designing (at various levels).
Simon, H. A. (1996, first published 1969). The sciences of the artificial (3rd ed.). Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America: MIT Press.
Ackoff's work on Ideal-seeking Purposeful systems (i.e. in Deming's terms, the system management is reponsible for) talks about how redesigning such systems is they way to improve them (For an up to date Ackoffian perspective on this try: Gharajedaghi, J. (2011). Systems thinking: managing chaos and complexity : a platform for designing business architecture (3rd ed.). Burlington, Massachusetts, United States of America.: Morgan Kaufmann.
See these works of Ackoff's for a good introduction to his original thinking:
* R. L. (2004). Opening Speech: Transforming the Systems Movement. Third International Conference on Systems Thinking in Management (ICSTM '04), University of Pennsylvania, United States of America.
* R. L. (1974). The systems revolution. Long Range Planning, 7(6), 2-20. doi:10.1016/0024-6301(74)90127-7
* R. L. (1971). Towards a System of Systems Concepts. Management Science, 17(11, Theory Series), 661-671.
Another place to start is a video of a meeting between Russell Ackoff and Edwards Deming - while it takes them a while to align on terminology they are saying the same thing - Ackoff from a systems and design perspective and Deming from a quality and systems perspective. A Transcript is available: http://ackoffcenter.blogs.com/files/dr.-ackoff-dr.-deming.pdf of the conversation which took place in 1992 and was edited and released as Volume 21 of The Deming Library series in 1993. It is called "A Theory of a System for Educators and Managers" It is available from CC-M Productions and includes a second DVD with discussion/teaching guides for it and the rest of the Deming Library at The CC-M website at http://www.managementwisdom.com . (But I'm sure I watched this online somewhere - but right now can't lay my hands on the URL),
Of course more recently there is the great work by Vangard Consulting CEO John Seddon. In this video he talks about his work with Deming (and others) to adapt TQM to Service Organizations (with an explicit consideration of systems and design concepts). Wonderful stuff... also he has lots to say about IT too .. (He takes a bit of time to get the service systems examples).
And this one on "Its the System Stupid"
(Also let's not forget the groundbreaking work in the 1950s of the UK Tavistock Institute's Emery and Trist -both worked with Ackoff later; Emery & Trist came up with design principles for organization design for high quality, efficient AND enjoyable jobs!)
Also as a practitioner example I came across this week proactively integrating design, systems and quality thinking check out this newsletter: http://goo.gl/qqRtp
OK...time for feedback... is this useful... or am I drifting off your original question and telling you stuff you already know?
Will Pollard • Feedback, this is extremely useful. Thanks. I have found the Deming / Ackoff conversation on YouTube starts with a diagram very similar to MoSO. I will look at the rest of your links. I am working on another online occasion for Management Theory at Work "#mtw3" at the end of this month. So will copy much of this to fit better there.
Will Pollard •
I copied some of the post from Antony Upward to the #mtw3 group ( this is a sort of online conference. Here is a copy of a comment by John Burgoyne-
• well I looked at the video on You Tube. It seems to be saying all the right things, but in a very dull and expert and 'we know best' kind of way, the medium seems to contradict the message! And I don't think they allow enough space for the 'emergent properties' of the systems they are trying to improve and control - that is the unexpected and the excercise of free will
Antony Upward • #mtw3 group - John Burgoyne- - "• well I looked at the video on You Tube. It seems to be saying all the right things, but in a very dull and expert and 'we know best' kind of way, the medium seems to contradict the message! And I don't think they allow enough space for the 'emergent properties' of the systems they are trying to improve and control - that is the unexpected and the excercise of free will "
Sounds about right; the video was i think in the early '90's if memory serves... so they were both in well into their "guru-hood" by that point! For better delivery specific to high quality service systems design the links to Vangard's CEO John Seddon has more pizazz and a more recent perspective...
But yes... more could be done to make the messages clear and more fun!
I am continuing #mtw3 on LinkedIn this week and also contributing to two radio shows around the South West Music Awards in Exeter.
#mtw3 is shaping around design science. Still not sure that everyone has the same understanding of what this is. But it is a theme that connects management and teaching.
Do we actually design radio shows? JD has almost accepted this on the Wild Show but he stops at the idea of science. Radio requires skill he reckons. It cannot be planned exactly.
Thursday night Chris Norton intends to video some of the Awards event on an iPhone and load very quickly to YouTube, maybe Soundcloud. I think this is the main news item so far. I know this is possible but I don't come across it. I use a Kodak Zi8 myself so upload a day or so later. I have bought a Nexus 7 but there is only one camera. Not sure how this will work.
We have a lot of tracks from YouTube already. See playlist
There will be two shows, the normal Wild Show 10-12 on Thursday and a special same time on Friday. It should be possible to play anything we get to YouTube or Soundcloud direct to radio. So unless some of the recording works out both shows may be much the same as the playlist.
Came across this. I used to get Pandora by mistake till they realised I was not in USA.
Is it even possible to think that Apple would do such a thing? Trouble is I think that all USA quoted companies are rated on strange expectations and they sometimes do odd things to survive. Will Apple have any partners at all in a couple of years?
This diagram comes from slides for Teaching as design science: innovations with pedagogies and technologies, presented at the 7th Annual EDEN Research Workshop, Leuven.
My suggestions are about virtual worlds and video. I'm not sure how sequences work around when technology is adapted by the public, by specialists, in eduaction. Virtual worlds may have been noticed in 2005 but I think there has been a blip, maybe just in the UK. The bandwidth required is too much for what actuially exists. So I think virtual worlds have drifted away. But they may come back.
Video is not obvious as a date but YouTube is on another diagram. I think there are now ways of using video for conversation but these are not widely used. Video conferencing can be recorded. There is a remix button on YouTube but not much use of it. Soundcloud has comments at specific times within a track but this is mostly used to discuss a mix. I don't see much about a lecture or similar.
So I hope there is more comment about the diagram during next week. this has started on Facebook but could be wider.
My friend Web Kirby has proposed a sculpture park on Twinity for 3D art objects. This could be a case study for #mtw3 next week. He may be right that a 3D model would be secure in Twinity even if sold for a specific location.
There are a few issues with this. I don't understand how this sort of art is promoted. The Phoenix show starts next month so there may be discussion then.
If you are on Twinity, search for "Beach For You" in Northampton. I asked for a beach in East Devon but for some reason the map data came up with Northampton. For a beach. and this is the service they no longer afford for the big cities.
Still thinking about the 3D printing show at the Phoenix in Exeter next month. Will the art be in unlimited editions? How many works will have been modified by the artist? I think some will come straight from the machine.
The name of the show is "Neoreplicants", this implies there is a way for the form to spread.
Previously we spoke on the Wild Show about limited editions of woodcut prints. A woodcut carving will be damaged by too much use but I can't see how there is any limit on 3D printing once the model is finalised.
I have found this link for a recent show in London, mostly a trade show with industrial applications.
This is based on just a quick glance but don't see much about Acrobat or PDF. Launch 11 has been very quiet. I still don't understand why you need Acrobat 11 to work with PDF in the cloud. It still seems very expensive. Is it the last desktop product for corporates that will just drift on? As memory serves Kevin Lynch introduced some wierd symbols to the Acrobat design on the grounds that everything had to follow design for mobile. At least they have now gone. I still like a pull down menu when there is space for it. If this is very out of date and needs no promotion at least there should be a version at a reduced price.
This is an update on previous posts hoping for an explicit theory of public relations that would help social media through more use of Creative Commons and posting of samples.
I think two years ago there was an Animated Exeter event at the cathedral when the work was clearly Creative Commons and also the official clip on YouTube was Creative Commons so the sound could be used with other images. On other occasions things are not so clear cut but something emerges.
On a recent post I quote from an interview with Jean Huang Lundgren, Head of video partnerships for Youtube, Greater China & South East Asia,
Copyright is the content producer’s constant companion. How do you deal with the copyright environment in these emerging markets?
One incredible YouTube function I would like to publicize more, is our powerful Content ID feature, which helps protect copyright owners. Once a content owner uploads its content to our system, it then creates an audio and video reference file which can identify video matches. Our system then scours all of YouTube’s video files to find if there are any matches, then it notifies the copyright owner through our Content Management System. The content owner can then chose to take down the content, leave it up to drive promotions or monetize the content through advertising revenue share. All decisions are made by the content owners. Our system is very powerful, that a content owner can even set criteria on the content. For example, if a film studio wants to take down content that is longer than 10 minutes but allow ads to be served on content less than 10 minutes, they can choose to do so.
The invitation here is to allow 10 minutes or so as promotion, while the complete work is for sale.
A couple of other examples. Quite a lot of Nosferatu is on YouTube but this may encourage people to go to the Northcott Theatre for a bigger screen and a live piano player.
Also the BBC has posted on YouTube one song by Dionne Warwick from her recent CD as performed on Later. Probably she knows about this.
I am getting more interested in sound and radio as I have been supporting the Wild Show on Phonic FM. The live broadcast is covered by OFCOM and PRS but there is no "listen again" and posting to Soundcloud or YouTube or other places has various kinds of result.
As the web spreads I think text publishing may face similar issues and this is turning up around #mtw3 . Quite often there is some version of a text online as well as official publications that are quite expensive. Jean Huang Lundgren in her interview withAsia Pacific Creative Landing Pad also mentions TouTube Education. This links to a list of universities and others posting video. I notice
that the numbers for views drops off quite quickly after the first twenty or so. So this may have an influence on potential students
thinking about a paid for course. I don't know of any studies on how this works but it may be part of the motivation.
Also I find with many conferences that the content is available shortly after the date of the actual event. The value of attending for in
person questions and discussion is not reduced by this. It probably encourages new people to join in. Again, I don't know of any
studies of numbers.
Links welcome to any existing writing on this. If I knew a better basis in PR theory it would help me borrowing stuff for blogs etc.
This page about the MBA Alumni Network includes a well edited video. All the production standards are good as well, including the lighting. So subject to budget the Work Foundation is an ok location for video that includes presentations and casual conversation.
By the way, "subject to budget" is a frequent phrase for Jo Gedrych whenever I have tried to clarify the possibility of a video recording. He is "directorJo" on YouTube and also JG Productions in Dunbar. A lot of the video on YouTube is also Exeter Television. I have tried to argue that production values may not matter so much for local reporting. Social video gradually puts more emphasis on speed of access and ease of commenting.
But probably the first few examples of social video from Exeter in the recent post are too difficult to cope with
However there are some genuine questions here. You can record video on a phone or tablet. But how to be steady if you have to tap the screen? How to get video file sizes small enough for a reasonable phone bill? And if playing back for radio how to stop these devides switching to another track? Continues on the Wild Show Phonic FM Thursday mornings. Some famous gaps made up of pure silence but the good bits will be edited for YouTube.
Chris has arranged some access to the South West Music Awards next week. Don't worry, there will be proper cameras as well and some bands have their own arrangements. But we will try out some casual shots. When we have a method the same approach might work at a conference.
This post was in June on the #mtw3 blog following a suggestion from John Burgoyne. There is a version of the paper that can be found online.
I hope there will be more about this, not sure how to scope it. I think it relates to Deming ideas and why quality systems seem to work better in Asia than in USA /UK. Comment welcome.
There will be a conference in November about
Buddhist Values in Business and its Potential for Europe
I will try to find out more about this during next week. I think the section in John Burgoyne's second video about traffic jams in China should sequence to discussion about Europe also.
Ahead of next week I am checking out previous posts from the official #mtw3 blog. On this blog I will be including much material that is not really part of the main event. Linda Shelton will probably stick to the essential outline.
On this post from earlier in the year there is a photo of Sally Potter on a visit to Second Life. Most of the avatars I know are usually in Twinity. I notice Web Kirby has started to comment on Facebook.
I think #mtw3 is mostly headed for LinkedIn. But Second Life has some activity and may turn up again.
Different things I am involved with sometimes seem quite separated, now and again they fit.
We have spoken about design science on the Wild Show and tried to relate it to music. We played some extracts from a podcast about barbarians, creative industries and copyright industries. Now I get an email link to a newsletter.
Asian Creative Transformations interview with Jean Huang Lundgren, Head of video partnerships for Youtube, Greater China & South East Asia,
Copyright is the content producer’s constant companion. How do you deal with the copyright environment in these emerging markets?
One incredible YouTube function I would like to publicize more, is our powerful Content ID feature, which helps protect copyright owners. Once a content owner uploads its content to our system, it then creates an audio and video reference file which can identify video matches. Our system then scours all of YouTube’s video files to find if there are any matches, then it notifies the copyright owner through our Content Management System. The content owner can then chose to take down the content, leave it up to drive promotions or monetize the content through advertising revenue share. All decisions are made by the content owners. Our system is very powerful, that a content owner can even set criteria on the content. For example, if a film studio wants to take down content that is longer than 10 minutes but allow ads to be served on content less than 10 minutes, they can choose to do so.
The Korean wave really hit a lot of places around the world. China is obviously still lagging behind. Do you have any comment on that?
I don’t think that China is so much “lagging”, but that is hasn’t really had to worry so much about the international scene. Domestically, the Chinese market is so big that is has a very upwardly mobile, eager and hungry audience for content. It’s a bit similar to Japan, which also has been very focused on the domestic market. Only in the last few years has there emerged a sense of “we need to break out of our boundaries.” From a personal perspective, I have lived and worked in China for several and have seen the production quality change substantially. Actually, about six or seven years ago, there was an extremely popular video from China, the Backdorm Boys doing lip sync to songs by the Backstreet Boys and other pop stars. There are other numerous breakout examples on our platform
Main thing I notice is that there is nothing in print about the Guardian itself and the numerous stories last week about possible cancellation of print. Apparently wholly untrue but then they might say something.
I still think the Guardian Unlimited Talk saga is worth further study. So far it has hardly been reported, certainly not in print. A very successful cover up. Who made the decision to close it? When did Alan Rusbridger know? etc etc
Newsweek and the Daily Beast have made a clear decision to go online. I think people in the UK including former Guardian readers should have a look fairly often. They have some stories about the UK press such as speculation as to how Murdoch papers got transcripts of Diana phone conversations.
This story may be mostly speculation but I still think it odd that no UK papers have mentioned it as far as I know. They don't report much about themselves.
