Marketing Measurement
by Tony Quinlan on Sep 21, 2012 6:50:43 PM
I'm packing to leave for Hong Kong in about half an hour - looking forward to some of the discussions that will ensue around Strategy, Leadership and Innovation next week, then off to Sydney for the Cognitive Edge Foundations course. For the UK-based, however, I've just had details of …
Defining terms by exclusion and by example
by Tony Quinlan on Sep 14, 2012 5:50:21 PM
Last week, I was an interested observer in a debate that rumbled on over three days - about the definition of a term being used by three different organisations working together. On this occasion, the term was "Strategic Communications" or "StratCom". (As an aside, it recalled the day …
Hong Kong and Sydney courses
by Tony Quinlan on Sep 13, 2012 9:49:11 PM
I'm going to be in Hong Kong on 24th-26th September, running a Cognitive Edge introductory course to using SenseMaker® - highly recommended. If you're interested (and you should be) you can get details and book on the Cognitive Edge website.
What's in 4,000 stories? What about 100?
by Tony Quinlan on Nov 28, 2011 1:30:55 PM
Two contrasting weeks working on very different narrative projects - both fascinating in their own right. And both doing SenseMaker™ analysis under time pressure, but with datasets that couldn't have been more different.
Egypt - social media was not a silver bullet
by Tony Quinlan on Nov 23, 2011 7:52:32 PM
I've just seen another article about how social media caused change in Egypt. (I'm not going to link to it - or any of the others - as I don't want to encourage the causal thinking behind it.) The other element I've seen mentioned as important in the Egypt changes earlier this year is …
Giving voice to everyone - avoiding overload, cacophony
by Tony Quinlan on Nov 22, 2011 11:19:00 PM
One of the great truisms in communications and development work (these days, I seem to be having conversations in both areas and am aware of their similarities) is that "we want to hear from everyone, give everyone a voice". The principled, idealistic side of us believes that, but the …
Who are you? and Where are you?
by Tony Quinlan on Aug 10, 2011 2:56:06 PM
At some recent conferences, the issue of identity has cropped up a few times - usually with the underlying assumption that each individual has a core identity. It's a seductive idea - and one that I've seen permeate organisational human resources, the self-help movement and research f …
Dots to be joined...
by Tony Quinlan on Jul 18, 2011 1:38:00 PM
It's been a busy couple of months - with a number of things that I'll be putting up here in the coming weeks. Including, excitingly, the next pilots for the Children of the World project...
CASE presentation materials
by Tony Quinlan on May 13, 2011 5:28:15 PM
Yesterday afternoon was another interesting presentation - this time to the CASE group of internal communicators from Higher Education. Smart people, fun afternoon and just to add to the mix, I got to speak with Ghassan Kharian of Kharian and Box, who I haven't seen in a while. Follow …
The problem with employee surveys - the right answer or the true answer?
by Tony Quinlan on May 9, 2011 2:14:48 PM
Here's an interesting question - are you assuming that because people tell you the right answer that they believe in it?