MediaFuturist: Crowdsourcing

Must watch: Futurist colleague Ross Dawson at TNW2012: the power of the crowds

Keynote Ross Dawson at TNW2012

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Get this new report (free): the future of technology disruption in business (Ricoh / Economist)

Just found this via Ricoh Europe, in collaboration with The Economist (free PDF download, but requires email registration). This is a definitive MUST READ. Serious intel and stats here, and totally spot-on foresights.

Posted by Gerd Leonhard at 12:39 PM in capitalism 2.0, CHANGE, Consumer Insights, Crowdsourcing, Crucial Stuff, Decentralization, Disruption, EgoSystem EcoSystem, Emerging Markets, Foresights, Future of Advertising, Future of Business, Future of Marketing, Future of Media, Future of Selling, Future Watch, Good reads, Innovation, Inspiring, Interesting, Leadership, Made me think, Marketing2.0, Must Reads, Networked Society, Open Network Economy, Realizations, Resources | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

New video: Visions of a Networked Future at ITU Telecom World

Below is a 10-minute video excerpt from a really interesting session at ITU Teleworld 2011 in Geneva yesterday, October 26, 2011. http://forum.world2011.itu.int/sessions/f17-storytelling-2-visions-of-a-netwo... has further details and the complete 86 minute video.

This Quickfire Storytelling session brings together some of the world's leading futurists (see below) to share bold ideas and conflicting predictions of how the world might look in 10 years' time. This video (which we shot ourselves using a Kodak HDCam and Sony bluetooth mic) shows the first 10 minutes i.e. Gerd's introduction, the 5 minute talk and brief discussion with the other speakers and the audience. Twitter buzz is here

You can download the 10MB PDF of my presentation (unfortunately, the slides are not visible in the video), here.

More details on the other panelists

Gerd Leonhard, CEO, The Futures Agency
Rachel Armstrong, Senior TED Fellow, Senior Lecturer, University of Greenwich
Simon Torrance, Founder 2.0 Initiative, and Chief Executice Officer, STL Partners
Juliana Rotich, CEO, Ushahidi Inc.
Rohit Talwar, CEO, Fast Future

This is the audio-only version (right-click to save the MP3)

Gerd Leonhard Futurist at ITU Teleworld 2012

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Announcing my new Kindle book "The Future of Content"

Today is a very big day for me. My new Kindle book "The Future of Content" just went online at Amazon, and is already gaining a lot of traction. You can view a very short video greeting about the book on my GerdTube channel (Youtube:)

Of course I would be very happy if you would consider buying the book for yourself (only $3.90, Kindle-only) but beyond that it would be really great if you could help me spread the word via rating and / or 'liking' the book on the Amazon.com page, tweeting about it or just forwarding this mail to some friends that may be interested.

As you probably know, I have published my last 3 books as free pdfs (which are quite popular) but really wanted to try something new with this book; after all reading on the Kindle is a much better experience than reading a PDF, and thus is, to quote Kevin Kelly, one of those "New Generatives" :)

"The future of content" will also be available in dead-tree-versions aka print, via my Lulu store, soon - please stay tuned. Happy reading!

Gerd Leonhard
(Media Futurist and CEO of The Futures Agency),
Basel / Switzerland
http://twitter.com/#!/gleonhard
My public Amazon / Kindle profile
(sharing all my book highlights there)

Update October 25 2011: this nice review may be helpful:

Increases brain power for content creators, October 25, 2011

By

Suzanna Stinnett

This review is from: The Future of Content (Kindle Edition)

"I challenge you to expand your brain and read this book. What Gerd Leonhard is always doing is informing the global brain (or the collective brain) in ways that help us all get where we're trying to go. He builds the buildings in front of us.

This collection points toward several compelling answers for content creators. As a writer who is already swimming in the changing currents of "content," I found it intensely informative. Leonhard shores up my courage to continue embracing a digital world without DRM, and ebook prices "for the masses." He makes the all-important concept of curation crystal clear. If you are providing any kind of content in print or on the web, it's relevant. If you want to stay on the front edge of content creation and publishing, it's basic. I'm making this book mandatory reading for my epublishing circles"

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ABOUT "THE FUTURE OF CONTENT"
Futurist Gerd Leonhard has been writing about the future of content i.e. music, film, TV, books, newspapers, games etc, since 1998. He has published 4 books on this topic, 2 of them on music (The Future of Music, with David Kusek, and Music 2.0). For the past 10 years Leonhard has been deeply involved with many clients in various sectors of the content industry, in something like 17 countries, and it’s been a great experience, he says. “I have learned a lot, I have listened a lot, I have talked even more (most likely:) and I think I have grown to really understand the issues that face the content industries - and the creators, themselves - in the switch from physical to digital media.”

This Kindle book is a highly curated collection of the most important essays and blog posts Leonhard has written on this topic, and even though some of it was written as far back as 2007 - “I believe it still holds water years later. I have tried to only include the pieces that have real teeth. Please note that the original date of each piece is shown here in order to allow for contextual orientation.” Leonhard’s intent to publish this via the amazing Amazon Kindle platform, exclusively, and at a very low price, is to make these ideas and concepts as widely available as possible while still trying to be an example of what digital, paperless distribution can look like, going forward.

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Great video by Tiffany Shlain: connected Creativity (MIPTV)

Can't wait to see her new movie. "Honoured by Newsweek as one of the "Women Shaping the 21st Century," Tiffany Shlain is an award-winning filmmaker, founder of The Webby Awards and co-founded the International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences. Her award-winning new feature documentary " Connected: An Autoblogography about Love, Death & Technology" premiered at Sundance 2011. Tiffany Shlain's keynote will be followed by a screening of "Connected: An autoblogography about Love, Death & Technology" (Official Selection 2011, Sundance Film Festival)"

Posted by Gerd Leonhard at 12:03 PM in Creative Rights, Creativity, Crossmedia, Crowdsourcing, Crucial Stuff, Cultural Industries, Disruption, Future of Journalism, Future of Media, Innovation, Inspiring, Interesting, Must-watch, Networked Society, Videos I Like | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Tim Berners-Lee on Open Data (Ted.com video) - great examples here

This is a must-watch video if you want some good examples on how open data systems have real impact on business, society and politics.

Posted by Gerd Leonhard at 2:48 PM in 21st Century Content Ecology, Broadband Culture, Content 2.0, Crowdsourcing, Data is the new Oil, Decentralization, Link Economy, Must-watch, Open Is King, Open Network Economy, Open Source, Openness Issues | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

New video: my talk at MidemNet Academy 2011 on Innovation: music industry learnings from other industries

This is a good one - loads of information in here, and pretty well recorded. More details and PDF with all slides, here. Enjoy and spread the word. Subscribe to my video RSS feed, here, if you want (download all videos directly to iTunes, watch on your iPod etc).

Posted by Gerd Leonhard at 11:45 AM in 21st Century Content Ecology, Advertising Trends, Attention Economy, Augmented Reality, Best of Gerd, Branding, Broadband Culture, Convergence, Cool Tools, Crossmedia, Crowdsourcing, Data is the new Oil, Decentralization, Devices, Digital Music, Events, Future of Advertising, Future of Agencies, Future of Books, Future of Broadcasting, Future of Media, Future of Money, Future of PR & Communications, Future of Selling, Future of TV, Futurism, Gadgets, Innovation, Inspiring, Interesting, Lifestreaming, Link Economy, Mobile Advertising, Music Like Water, MY PRESENTATIONS, My videos, Networked Society, Open Network Economy, Open Source, Openness Issues, Privacy, Sharism, Shopping2.0, Social Commerce, Social Networks, Telepresence, Trust, TV, VIDEO BLOG, Videos I Like | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

New video: my talk at TedX London: the future of intellectual property and copyright

It didn't take long for the TedX NewStreet (London) people to put the videos online at the TedX Youtube channel - great! Unfortunately my own talk got started while the wireless microphone was still on 'mute' so for the first minute or so (while I am doing my introduction) the audio recording was quite bad.

Therefore, I edited the video and scrubbed those 60 seconds; the result is below (using my own GerdTube / Blip.TV channel *you can get the iTunes podcast feed here). The original TedX Youtube version is below, as well, as is the slideshow, from my previous post. I think I really touched on some very important issues here, and I would be delighted to hear your thoughts on them. Fire away via Twitter, or Facebook, or comment below. And spread the word. Thanks.

The Future of IPR and Copyright (presentation at TedX NewStreet London)

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Check out my daily Twitter 'Paper' created by Paper.li

Very cool tool - simple and useful. Paper.li organizes links shared on Twitter into an easy to read newspaper-style format. Newspapers can be created for any Twitter user, list or #tag. A great way to stay on top of all that is shared by the people you follow - even if you are not connected 24/7 !

Posted by Gerd Leonhard at 11:32 AM in Cool Tools, Crowdsourcing, Data is the new Oil, Decentralization, Future of News, Future of Reading, Sharism, Startups, Twitter, UGC | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

The Future of Film & Cinema: my presentation at NIFF (new video)

This is a much better quality version of the video I already posted last week (please go here for the slides of the presentation) - enjoy, share and spread the word. Download the video via my Blip.tv channel (480MB MP4)

ITF 2010 | Gerd Leonhard | The Future Of Cinema & Film from NIFFF on Vimeo.

The Future Of Cinema & Film.
Gerd Leonhard talk at the Imaging The Future Symposium 2010

Posted by Gerd Leonhard at 12:39 PM in 21st Century Content Ecology, Attention Economy, Best of Gerd, Broadband Culture, Creativity, Crossmedia, Crowdsourcing, Events, Film, Future of Content, Future of Film, Future of Media, Future of TV, Inspiring, Link Economy, Marketing2.0, Monetizing Content, Must-watch, MY PRESENTATIONS, My speaking engagements, My videos, Social Media, Storytelling Trends, Trends, Trust, Videos I Like | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

A must watch: full-length video of my talk on the Future of Communications and Social Media at NBS Brazil

Here is a real must-watch: a 90 minutes tour-de-force on pretty much anything you'd ever want to know on the Future of Communications, Marketing, Advertising, and (Social) Media. This presentation (and the event that was put on by the NBS agency who have also graciously provided this video recording) got a lot of attention in Sao Paulo and in the Brazilian media, so give it a whirl.

Future of Communication and Social Media: Gerd Leonhard at NBS Sao Paulo

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Posted by Gerd Leonhard at 1:24 PM in 21st Century Content Ecology, Advertising Trends, Announcements, Attention Economy, Best of Gerd, Branding, Brazil, BRIC, Consumer Insights, Creativity, Crossmedia, Crowdsourcing, Economic Egoism, Emerging Markets, End of Control, Friction is Fiction, Future of Advertising, Future of Agencies, Future of Business, Future of Content, Future of Media, Future of Money, Future of PR & Communications, Future of Selling, Inspiring, Leadership, Link Economy, Marketing2.0, mCommerce, Mobile, Mobile Advertising, Mobility, Must-watch, MY PRESENTATIONS, My speaking engagements, My videos, Open Is King, Open Network Economy, Print & Newspapers, Reading 2.0, Real-Time Web, Resources, Social Advertising, Social Media, Social Networks, Trends, Trust, TV, Twitter, Videos I Like | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Some great pictures from my session at Roda Viva / TV Cultura in Brazil

Together with my colleague and Swiss leadership guru Didier Marlier I have been doing some interesting work with one of the leading business schools in Brazil, Fundacao Dom Cabral (more on that soon!). The last time I was there I also managed to do a very special engagement for the very cool people at the NBS agency, see the details and PDF here.

Via the NBS gig and via Twitter (of course), I was introduced to the people that program one of the most accomplished and popular talk-shows on Brazilian Public TV, called Roda Viva, on the TVCultura channel. The show involves sitting in the midst of a circle of 10-15 very smart people that quite literally 'grill' you on some pretty tough issues (in my case, as you may have guessed, the future of content, copyright, marketing, social media etc).

The full video should be available via Roda Viva fairly soon; in the meantime I just discovered an entire set of some pretty good pictures that their really talented photographer (Duda Groisman took during the filming, embedded via the amazing Flickr widgets, below. Enjoy. And stay tuned.

Posted by Gerd Leonhard at 5:30 PM in About Me, Brazil, Crowdsourcing, Events, Gerd in the media, In Portuguese, Me, Must-watch | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Shifting to the Open Network Economy: my presentation at the Fundacao Dom Cabral CEO event in Sao Paulo

It was a great pleasure to be invited to contribute to the Sao Paulo / Brazil-based F u ndacao Dom Cabral's innovative CEO leadership program, led by my colleague and Swiss-Brazilian collaborator and leadership guru Didier Marlier, as a visiting professor. Below is a fairly large and long (95 pages - do not print!!) slideshow with most of the important stuff I presented; needless to say this was not the usual 45-60 minute session but took pretty much the entire afternoon. I was extremely impressed with the organization and their hosts (FDC / Dalton Sandenberg) as well as with the fast and agile minds of the CEOs that attended - we had some very inspiring conversations. And Caipirinias, too;). Update: Low-res download of PDF here: PDF 11.5 MB Open Network Economy Gerd Leonhard FDC SP Low-res

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Shifting to the Open Network Economy (FDC CEO Event in Sao Paolo)

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Posted by Gerd Leonhard at 4:31 PM in 21st Century Content Ecology, Advertising Trends, Attention Economy, Branding, Brazil, BRIC, Broadband Culture, Consumer Insights, Crowdsourcing, Decentralization, Disruption, Economic Egoism, Education, Emerging Markets, End of Control, Enterprise 2.0, EoC: Change Challenges, Future of Advertising, Future of Business, Future of Content, Future of Media, Future of PR & Communications, Future of Selling, Innovation, ISPs, Leadership, Link Economy, Marketing2.0, mCommerce, Mobile, Mobile Advertising, Mobility, Must Reads, MY PRESENTATIONS, Open Is King, Open Network Economy, Open Source, Openness Issues, Real-Time Web, Search, Sharism, Slideshows, Social Media, Social Networks, Telecom2.0, Television, Trends, Trust, Walled Garden Stuff, Wisdoms | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

The Price of Free - Reinventing the Online Economy, now in Greek!

One of my most popular essays, "The Price of Free - Reinventing the Online Economy", see previous posts here and here, is now available in Greek language: Download PDF Gerd Leonhard Η τιμή της ελευθερίας - Αναδιαμορφώνοντας τη διαδικτυακή οικονομία

A huge 'Thanks' to Antonis Plessas, check out his blog with the translation in Greek language, his original post in English, the translation in his blog at Musicunites.gr , the presentation at the"featured stories" main page at musicunites.gr sponsored by AEPI (collecting society for Greek Authors), the post featured in MusicUnites.gr Facebook page.

Posted by Gerd Leonhard at 4:57 PM in CHANGE, Crowdsourcing, Free!, Music Flat Rate, Music Like Water, My writings | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Crowdsourcing is real: German Translation of my RSA essay "The Price of Freedom - Reinventing the Online Economy"

Crowd-sourcing really works for me. Quite a few of my essays are now being translated into various languages, by some very kind people that donate their time because they simply like my writings and want to collaborate. Here is the latest result: a nice German translation of my 2009 essay in the RSA Journal "The Price of Freedom - Reinventing the Online Economy". Enjoy!

[My other posts on crowdsourcing]

German Translation of "The Price of Freedom: by Rainer Classen : PDF: Preis der Freiheit Kindly translated by Rainer Claßen (RC-WebService; his Blog)

Original Version in English: Download

Other translations include:

Greek translation by Antonis Plessas: PDF: Gerd Leonhard Η τιμή της ελευθερίας - Αναδιαμορφώνοντας τη διαδικτυακή οικονομία

Spanish Translation by Carlos Perez Vellila: PDF: Spanish: Price of Free RSA

Italian Translation by Federico Ciappi: Download PDF: Il prezzo della libertà RC1