Kate Carruthers
The future of shopping is social
These are some thoughts that I presented at the AMP Social Media Cafe in Sydney on 11 November 2010, the slides and references follow below.
The future of shopping is social. But that is nothing new – shopping has always been social. The difference is that now we are seeing social
Remembering 11-11
Who will remember, passing through this Gate,
The unheroic Dead who fed the guns?
Who shall absolve the foulness of their fate,—
Those doomed, conscripted, unvictorious ones?
Crudely renewed, the Salient holds its own.
Paid are its dim defenders by this pomp;
Paid, with a pile of peace-complacent stone,
If bad is stronger than good what can we do about it?
I've been reading an old article that remains extremely interesting - it is an academic paper dating back to 2001 titled Bad Is Stronger Than Good.
The authors note that:
... Bad impressions and bad stereotypes are quicker to form and more resistant to disconfirmation than good ones. "
This
Serious stuff: "dream machines that deliver the desires of the material heart"
I was lucky enough to hear my friend Mark Pesce speak at the Social Innovation BarCamp in Sydney on 6 Nov and his talk, while entertaining, was also profound.
Mark commenced by referring to mobile phones as "dream machines that deliver the desires of the material heart". Then
More Maru is never enough - happy Caturday
1 more sleep until Social Innovation BarCamp #sibsyd
After many weeks of planning with my co-conspirators Selena Griffith, Michelle Williams and Kim Chen we are finally on the eve of the second Social Innovation BarCamp.
This venture was a leap of faith for us. At the start we did not know if anyone else had a passion