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February 21, 2016
Is Being Persuadable The Future Of Leadership?
Episode #502 of Six Pixels of Separation - The Mirum Podcast is now live and ready for you to listen to.
Every so often, someone (on Twitter, Facebook or whatever) asks if there are any good books for conducting a meeting? For me, there is only one such book, and it's Al Pittampalli's, Read This Before Our Next Meeting: The Modern Meeting Standard for Successful Organizations. To make it even better, it's a quick and simple read too. I was thrilled to see that Al is back with his second book, Persuadable: How Great Leaders Change Their Minds to Change the World. It's a book for our modern world. We think that real leadership is about having a vision and driving it, at all costs. It turns out that times have changed. Making great things happen is more about surrounding yourself with the right people and being very open to changing courses. While that may sound obvious... it is not. Enjoy the conversation...
You can grab the latest episode of Six Pixels of Separation here (or feel free to subscribe via iTunes): Six Pixels of Separation - The Mirum Podcast #502.
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February 20, 2016
TED Is Bizarro World
TED. The one conference that everyone talks about.
I've been attending the actual TED conference since their last event in Monterey. That was about seven or eight years ago. This week, I'm here again at TED in Vancouver. When I first applied, I did not think that my application would be accepted. I filled it out as part of a grander plan, in the hopes that I would be accepted a few years later. Why? It was twofold:
It is very expensive, and it is both a financial and time commitment (the conference runs for a full week, and it costs several thousands of dollars).
I wasn't sure if I was ready back then. I wasn't sure that I had accomplished anything worthy of sharing, and if I had anything of value to add beyond warming a seat and priming my own brain to the TED community. My application was accepted, and I have not looked back since.
TED is not TEDx.
I see this a lot, when I mention that I am going to TED or see post from other TEDsters on social media. People will often say, "yeah, I've been to TED," or "yeah, I watched a TED talk by so and so." TEDx are local community events that are licensed by TED, so that individuals - in their local community - can hold events in a similar style. While many of the TEDx talks do find their way on to the TED website, and gain a ton of traction, these events are vastly different from the TED conference. It's not that TED is "better" than a lot of the content at a TEDx event, it's that those who have never attended the TED conference, miss the most important component of it.
TED is a community. A very different community.
There are two major components that make TED the incredible event that it is. It's also two, super critical factors, that the vast majority of event organizers don't understand, when they say that they're trying to make their event more like TED.
The audience member selection is as important/if not more important than the speakers on the stage. When we think of TED, we think of the TED talks. The 18 minute presentations that get millions upon millions of views. If you were to ask me, I would say that the presentations are only five percent of the overall TED experience. To use an analogy: the TED speakers are the kindling, but TED (the event) is a campfire. TED is actually Bizzaro World. It's a place where every person in the audience would - in the regular world - be the keynote speaker at any given number of events. The high level and quality of each attendee (all working in different fields at different levels) are all incredible human beings, whose stories are featured at a myriad of industry association and other events. I have never sat next to an individual and not thought to myself that this person should write a book, tell their story in public, etc... And, more often than not, these people are doing just that. That's a unique dynamic that creates an environment where every break, meal and get-together is more fascinating, powerful and educational than anything being said on the stage. That content from the stage only further enhances all of the other conversations and meet-ups. And, I don't say that lightly, because the content on the stage is always pretty staggering. That combination of high quality of attendees, and these speakers is something that doesn't happen very often.
Serendipity is magic. Someone, and I wish I could remember who, leaned over at one of the parties and said to me that TED is "serendipity on steroids." At first, it made me laugh. But that line stuck in my ear... and it's true. It's also the best way to describe the TED experience. When you have such a high level of curation - in everything from the speakers and attendees down to the types of snacks being served - it creates raging brushfires and not just sparks (to stick with the analogy). It's hard not to have a conversation - with just about anyone - and not see some way to improve one's own personal, community and/or work life. There is something that happens in these moments that create breakthroughs. From as grandiose as a new business idea, down to something you can do in your own community, or just a handful of notes based on something someone said that will make you a better spouse. It's nothing forced. It's nothing expected. It's just... serendipity, but it's intensely packed into five days and nights with a massive ratio of people to new idea that I have never experienced anywhere else.
Critics of TED be damned.
It's easy to be critical of TED. The price point, how it can seem elitist, if you have never been, and more. I don't see it like this. At all. I've spoken at conferences that are way more expensive and offer way less. I've been to conferences where being elitist is its raison d'être (many of them that you don't even know exist, because they are so elitist). None of that matters, because - for me - TED is a special time of the year that allows me to center, focus, be open, push myself, meet new people, think about new ideas and - in general - force myself to think differently. Personally, it's amazing to just float through TED and meet people. To stop people. To talk. To take notes. To focus on what can be. To be inspired by everyone from the speakers on the stage to way the way that the TED team handles the attendees. Lessons are everywhere.
I'm sorry that most people think that TED is about watching those TED talks live, instead of waiting to see them for free online. It's not.
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Six Links Worthy Of Your Attention #296
Is there one link, story, picture or thought that you saw online this week that you think somebody you know must see?
My friends: Alistair Croll (BitCurrent, Year One Labs, GigaOM, Human 2.0, Solve For Interesting, the author of Complete Web Monitoring, Managing Bandwidth: Deploying QOS in Enterprise Networks and Lean Analytics), Hugh McGuire (PressBooks, LibriVox, iambik and co-author of Book: A Futurist's Manifesto) and I decided that every week the three of us are going to share one link for one another (for a total of six links) that each individual feels the other person "must see".
Check out these six links that we're recommending to one another:
Terra Form - Motherboard - Vice. "Vice is showcasing movies about the future. Want some streaming video? Get your dystopia on!" (Alistair for Hugh).
Intelligent Machine AMA - The New Reddit Journal of Science . "When reddit is at its best, it's a forum for discussion. This may be the best group conversation about AI, smart robots, and the future of humans I've seen in a while." (Alistair for Mitch).
We are the LIGO Scientific Collaboration, and we have made the first direct detection of gravitational waves and the first observation of two black holes merging. Ask us anything! - Reddit . "Oh, by the way, while we were worrying about the future of Twitter or whether you prefer taxis or Uber, scientists detected gravitational waves, and observed two black holes colliding a billion light years away. The team responsible for the discovery got on Reddit for an 'Ask Me Anything' (AMA)." (Hugh for Alistair).
Social media has turned Republican & Democratic Parties into host bodies for 3rd party candidates - Storify - Clay Shirky . "Clay Shirky got on Twitter the other day, and poured out a brilliant analysis of how social media has transformed the structures of American politics, undermining the traditional party system and the power structures that hold them in place. Where it all leads, we shall see." (Hugh for Mitch).
SNL Designer Bonnie Siegler Explains Difference Between Good and Great Design - Layers Magazine . "I met Bonnie Siegler years ago at the TED conference. We've become buddies over the years. She's an amazing designer. One that doesn't often get the credit that she so rightfully deserves. Here's some of her work... and, more importantly, her perspective on how good design should (and could) be great design." (Mitch for Alistair).
Where the #$@&%*! are all the books?! On my Kindle. - Mashable . "Physical printed books or eBooks. Do readers say one thing, and do another? Do we have to choose? Is it possible that some books should be read in their printed form, while others are much better suited for a screen? Here's one perspective. It feels a little too much like a 'market of one,' but it's still an interesting perspective. How do you buy books?" (Mitch for Hugh).
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February 15, 2016
Can A Change In The Timeline Change Twitter's Fate?
Every Monday morning at 7:10 am, I am a guest contributor on CHOM 97.7 FM radio broadcasting out of Montreal (home base). It's not a long segment - about 5 to 10 minutes every week - about everything that is happening in the world of technology and digital media. The good folks at CHOM 97.7 FM are posting these segments weekly to SoundCloud, if you're interested in hearing more of me blathering away. I'm really excited about this opportunity, because this is the radio station that I grew up on listening to, and it really is a fun treat to be invited to the Mornings Rock with Terry and Heather B. morning show. The segment is called, CTRL ALT Delete with Mitch Joel.
This week we discussed:
Is Twitter dying? The stock continues to collapse, and confidence in the platform seems to be a question mark. Last week Twitter made a change. They know how challenging the interface and the real-time aspect of the tweets can be. People follow hundreds of people, and it's confusing. They've now started to tinker with the timeline by adding in a feature that helps you catch up on the best tweets from the people you follow.
Don't mess with data. Don't mess with journalists who know how to use data. In the recent past we've talked about two major disruptions in our lives because of digital. 1. Uber and the taxi industry. 2. A world without real journalists. Montreal suddenly feels like ground zero for both of these points. We have an environment that is getting increasingly hostile to Uber, because of the local taxi drives, so the Montreal Gazette put journalist, Jason Magder, on the case. Digging into the data, here's what he learned: Uber's arrival has had little effect on the value of taxi licenses sold in 2015. In fact, their value climbed significantly from the previous years. Now, we're not saying that Uber isn't disruptive, and that the value of those licenses won't plummet (which, may be a good thing too), but there's a lot of noise out there, and sometimes it takes a real journalist who gets data to show us the truth.
Famed pop alt rockers OK GO are at it again. They have a knack for creating music videos (in a day and age where few people are bothering) that go highly viral online. It all started back over a decade ago with their infamous treadmill synchronization video ('Here It Goes Again'), and they've been upping the bar ever since. Their new video for the song 'Upside Down & Inside Out,' which premiered Thursday on Facebook (and has already racked up more than 45 million views there), captures their performance in zero gravity while flying over Russia in a special plane that's used to train cosmonauts. No special effects!
App of the week: Quartz.
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February 14, 2016
Love Your Marketing
Episode #501 of Six Pixels of Separation - The Mirum Podcast is now live and ready for you to listen to.
It's Valentine's Day. Let's show some love. This guy... this Scott Monty guy. Long before he was Global Digital and Multimedia Communications Manager at Ford, he was a buddy. We spent countless years together - in our own corners - trying to figure out just how disruptive technology was going to be for marketing and communications professions. Prior to publishing the 500th episode of Six Pixels of Separation - The Mirum Podcast (last week), I asked on Facebook who might make a great guest, and Scott's name came up a few times. At first, I laughed because Scott and I have been friends for so long that I (wrongly) assumed he had been on the show (multiple times), but I soon realized that he had never been a guest. That's when I got embarrassed. Simply not acceptable. So, we're fixing it. And, we're showing Scott Monty the love, he rightfully deserves. Scott is a senior executive steeped in digital. He was ranked by The Economist as number one atop the list 25 Social Business Leaders and by Forbes as one of the top 10 influencers in social media, Alan Mulally, the CEO of Ford Motor Company, called him "a visionary." Scott has been featured in hundreds of news and business publications in print and on the web, in dozens of books, and on a variety of mainstream media. If you're not signed up for his weekly newsletter, The Full Monty, you don't know what you're missing. In this episode, we look at the state of marketing and communications, and where it's all going. Enjoy the conversation...
You can grab the latest episode of Six Pixels of Separation here (or feel free to subscribe via iTunes): Six Pixels of Separation - The Mirum Podcast #501.
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February 13, 2016
Six Links Worthy Of Your Attention #295
Is there one link, story, picture or thought that you saw online this week that you think somebody you know must see?
My friends: Alistair Croll (BitCurrent, Year One Labs, GigaOM, Human 2.0, Solve For Interesting, the author of Complete Web Monitoring, Managing Bandwidth: Deploying QOS in Enterprise Networks and Lean Analytics), Hugh McGuire (PressBooks, LibriVox, iambik and co-author of Book: A Futurist's Manifesto) and I decided that every week the three of us are going to share one link for one another (for a total of six links) that each individual feels the other person "must see".
Check out these six links that we're recommending to one another:
Not-so-secret atomic tests: Why the photographic film industry knew what the American public didn't - Imaging Resource . "Conspiracy theorists, from Kennedy to Clinton, are convinced that the Illuminati are out there, plotting and keeping secrets. I doubt those claims, simply because stuff leaks out. Case in point: Atomic testing in the 1940s." (Alistair for Hugh).
What's Better Than Taking A Telemarketer Out Of Service? Taking Six! - Jolly Roger Telephone . "Smart agents versus phone scammers. Some amazing vengeance here, and a lesson in what Andrew Chen calls the Law Of Shitty Clickthrough Rates. The system basically answers calls and uses random/semi-structured responses to keep agents on the phone as long as possible and waste their time. Telemarkefraüde." (Alistair for Mitch).
"I Am Skeptical That Capitalism Has a Future" - Jacobin . "Cory Doctorow on our crumbling universe, and the maniacs who run it." (Hugh for Alistair).
Shifting Colors Of An Octopus May Hint At A Rich, Nasty Social Life - The Two-Way - NPR . "I love octopi. I mean, they have neurons on their skin! They also dress up like vampires, apparently." (Hugh for Mitch).
The Malfunctioning Tech Economy - The Guardian . "This is probably one of the most important reads to come out this year. Yes, it's early days, but it's a gem. I'm fortunate to count media theorist, Douglas Rushkoff, as a friend (and will pick up the phone if I call him). Wouldn't it be nice to be a media theorist? Cool title, but you actually have to come up with theories about the media that no one has thought of yet. Well, check out this interview with Rushkoff. It gives a brief overview of his soon-to-be-published book, Throwing Rocks At The Google Bus. It's provocative, it is deep, and it will give you plenty to think about. Look for a conversation between Rushkoff on me on the Six Pixels of Separation Podcast at some point soon in the next few months. Until then, please read this!" (Mitch for Alistair).
Indie Bookstores Are Back, With a Passion - The New York Times . "Is it possible that the Internet economy could create a resurgence of independent and specialized retailers? Makes sense. If we can get our big, day-to-day stuff online (and for real cheap), maybe the real value in physical retail is the indie/specialized stuff? If that's the case, maybe books are the prime product to lead the way in this new retail evolution?" (Mitch for Hugh).
Feel free to share these links and add your picks on Twitter, Facebook, in the comments below or wherever you play.
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February 10, 2016
$5 A Month To Watch Ads Before You Unlock Your Mobile Device. Interested?
Every Monday morning at 7:10 am, I am a guest contributor on CHOM 97.7 FM radio broadcasting out of Montreal (home base). It's not a long segment - about 5 to 10 minutes every week - about everything that is happening in the world of technology and digital media. The good folks at CHOM 97.7 FM are posting these segments weekly to SoundCloud, if you're interested in hearing more of me blathering away. I'm really excited about this opportunity, because this is the radio station that I grew up on listening to, and it really is a fun treat to be invited to the Mornings Rock with Terry and Heather B. morning show. The segment is called, CTRL ALT Delete with Mitch Joel.
This week we discussed:
Is YouTube ruining the video experience by having pre-rolls and banners on the videos? Maybe YouTube should roll out YouTube Red to all countries?
A new company, Unlockd, has a deal for you. The Australian company (backed by News Corp founder Rupert Murdoch's son) can serve ads via Android users' lock screens. Now, Boost Mobile (owned by Sprint in the US) is going to try it out. Here's the deal: Unlockd serves an ad to people once every three times they wake up their phones and enter their password. In exchange, Boost will take $5 off of your monthly bill. So, which brands are in? Levi's, Starbucks, Hulu, EA Sports and more. Personally, this sounds brutal... what do you think? Also, think about how well brands can work in digital? Have you seen the way that Acura integrates into Jerry Seinfeld's Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee?
SwiftKey is a very cool keyboard replacement for Android and iPhone. You can swipe through the keyboard and it's technology makes it super-quick to type (especially with one hand). Microsoft liked it so much, that they acquired the company (and the 150 employees) this past week for $250 million. Does SwiftKey have something more to it than what we're not seeing?
App of the week: 30/30.
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February 7, 2016
Future Content With Morgan Spurlock
Episode #500 of Six Pixels of Separation - The Mirum Podcast is now live and ready for you to listen to.
Episode 500... hard to imagine. It is a total pleasure to welcome Morgan Spurlock to the show. Most people know him for his amazing documentaries (Super Size Me, Where in the World Is Osama bin Laden?, POM Wonderful Presents: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold, Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan's Hope and One Direction: This Is Us). He is also doing a lot of great work over at CNN with his show, Inside Man. Some might also remember his awesome reality TV show, 30 Days. With that, Spurlock also jumped full-on into content marketing and branded content. I've been lucky to know Morgan for a few years, and was very thankful that he agreed to be my guest on the 500th episode. He's someone who was very skeptical of brands and advertising, and he now sees the relationship between the work he is doing and how brands can be a part of it. Enjoy the conversation...
You can grab the latest episode of Six Pixels of Separation here (or feel free to subscribe via iTunes): Six Pixels of Separation - The Mirum Podcast #500.
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February 5, 2016
Six Links Worthy Of Your Attention #294
Is there one link, story, picture or thought that you saw online this week that you think somebody you know must see?
My friends: Alistair Croll (BitCurrent, Year One Labs, GigaOM, Human 2.0, Solve For Interesting, the author of Complete Web Monitoring, Managing Bandwidth: Deploying QOS in Enterprise Networks and Lean Analytics), Hugh McGuire (PressBooks, LibriVox, iambik and co-author of Book: A Futurist's Manifesto) and I decided that every week the three of us are going to share one link for one another (for a total of six links) that each individual feels the other person "must see".
Check out these six links that we're recommending to one another:
When a Video-Game World Ends - The Atlantic . "When you die, you can be memorialized on Facebook. One day, there will be more dead people than living people on the Internet. But what happens when a platform ends, and everyone winks out of existence? If you played World of Warcraft, you probably spent a lot of time (not sure? Type /played -- I know people who've racked up an entire year in Azeroth). All that work vanishes. It's a lesson in mortality, and sometimes the worlds go out with a bang." (Alistair for Hugh).
Why Can't We Build a Splash-Proof Toilet? - Priceonomics . "The Mars landers were supposed to last only 90 days; years later, they're still doing just fine. With all of that technology, you would think that we'd solve the problem with splashy toilets. But - as with most things - behavioural economics gets in the way. And yes, it talks about the physics of splashing." (Alistair for Mitch).
Syria: Drone footage shows full scale of destruction in Homs . "I have never seen anything like this. I've seen footage of bombed-out cities before, horrific images of war zones, but my God, the city of Homs, in Syria is just... gone. I guess the only equivalent I've seen is pictures of Hiroshima after the US dropped its nuclear bomb on the city, but in that case everything was razed. Here we just see an empty shell of a city, which is haunting in different ways. If you wonder why there is a refugee crisis, here is an answer you won't forget." (Hugh for Alistair).
F. Scott Fitzgerald Reads John Keats's "Ode to a Nightingale" - Brain Pickings . "From haunting/terrible, to haunting/sublime. F. Scott Fitzgerald reads 'Ode to a Nightingale.' I could listen to this all day." (Hugh for Mitch).
The Problem With Journalism Is You Need an Audience - Gawker . "Personally, I don't want newspapers to go away. Have you seen the movie, Spotlight. We need journalists. Real journalists. People who have lived and worked in the trenches... for decades. It gets me all kinds of mad, when I see people on Facebook complaining that some local restaurant is going under. These kinds of posts get a ton of likes and shares... lots of comments too. Here's the solution: don't want newspapers to go away? Don't want that local diner to close? Support it. Buy the newspaper. Eat at that restaurant. Frequently. People forget that this is a capitalistic society. If you don't buy it, it goes away. Journalism is alive and well. It's just waiting for you to show up." (Mitch for Alistair).
The Future of the Humanities: Reading - Pacific Standard . "We know this. Most people forget it. Every so often, the idea that reading is disappearing re-appears on our radar. Now, in a world of YouTube, Facebook videos and Snapchat, there's this idea that people are reading less... or spending less time reading. With that, how many BuzzFeed and Fast Company articles do we need about how to be successful? Here's the secret to success: Read. Read a lot. Never stop reading. And, as you read, take notes... and do something about it. Your future? It's all about reading." (Mitch for Hugh).
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Digital Transformation And The Big Bet
Is digital transformation the future of work... or just a bet that companies are making?
Say what you will about events like Davos (and, yes, there are many people and media who are quick to criticize the event), there are often moments that provide a batch of insights that make it worth our while to stop, watch, take notes and then reflect upon. So, here's the question: What big bets are companies making in the digital transformation of their business models and organizational structures?
It's a big question.
Everyone has digital transformation on the brain... and they should. I often argue that digital transformation is much more of an internal philosophy (that is leadership led) and internal execution, before it's something that touches a brand's consumers. It's difficult to say that your organization is "digital first" or leading the way in "digital transformation," if your leaders are not pushing the organization in this direction, or when the tools that the employees are using to build the business are legacy. I've been in the room of many corporations who are talking up business transformation, while behind the scenes they're using Lotus Notes, older BlackBerry devices, and frown up things like social media and mobile device usage at the office. It's a shame.
Back to Davos.
Last week, the World Economic Forum posted a session from Davos 2016 titled, The Digital Transformation of Industries. In this session moderator, Rich Lesser (Global Chief Executive Officer and President at Boston Consulting Group), Marc Benioff (CEO at Salesforce), Klaus Kleinfeld (CEO at Alcoa), Jean-Pascal Tricoire (CEO at Schneider), Bernard Tyson (CEO at Kaiser Permanente), and Meg Whitman (CEO at Hewlett Packard). On the agenda? What is digital transformation, how do companies make the right investment decision behind it and - most importantly - what does a digital culture look like and how does a brand go about designing one?
Watch this: World Economic Forum - Davos 2016 - The Digital Transformation of Industries.
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