Monthly Archives: July 2015

Taking Time

Posted on July 31, 2015 by julianstodd

It’s rarely gifted, time. If you want some for yourself, you usually have to claim it. ‘Give me time‘ is usually a plea, a desperate cry. I’m sat at the airport departure lounge, drinking coffee, whilst next to me three … Continue reading →

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Fragments of Thought: Reflections

Posted on July 30, 2015 by julianstodd

Reflections layer upon each other, especially at night. Every window bounces light back and forth, angled and fractured, splintered out of it’s original context and shape until it’s simply a glittering array of midnight stars, shifting as i take each … Continue reading →

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Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas: Transient Culture

Posted on July 30, 2015 by julianstodd

Rising out of the desert, nothing about Vegas is either to scale or normal: it’s a space built for a community that comes and keeps on coming. A parody of worlds far away built to escape from this one. It’s … Continue reading →

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A Sense of Culture

Posted on July 29, 2015 by julianstodd

Our notion of culture seems tied to geography: a distinction that may be losing it’s relevance in the Social Age. For fun, today i’ve been sketching out a model of waves of culture, overlapping but distinct ways in which we … Continue reading →

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Heartbeat of the Social Age

Posted on July 27, 2015 by julianstodd

With a degree of trepidation i found myself on the roof of the old rum distillery: maybe five floors up and clutching the ladder with white knuckles. It’s not that the ground i stood on was particularly precarious (indeed, it … Continue reading →

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The Loci of Engagement

Posted on July 24, 2015 by julianstodd

I’ve talked to Cath about this before: does she describe herself as a musician, or something else? She doesn’t really earn her living from it, although it’s what her life is all about. Do i describe myself as a writer? … Continue reading →

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Sunlight

Posted on July 22, 2015 by julianstodd

When you wake up to the sun coming through the window, clear blue skies, the warmth of it on your skin, it’s a good start to the day. Sunlight is good: we talk about the sun coming out from behind … Continue reading →

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Want to Meet?

Posted on July 21, 2015 by julianstodd

Instinctively we feel that meeting up in person is somehow better than just engaging in virtual spaces: we sense that the virtual is somehow a shadow of the real thing. This drives us to get people together when we join, … Continue reading →

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Tall Tales in the Woods: Tempo of Storytelling

Posted on July 20, 2015 by julianstodd

Huddled around the fire pit, a crowd of around fifty people sat silently, motionless in the dark. In front of us a storyteller was mid tale: a tale of a Bear King, with castles, golden scissors and a wicked Hag. … Continue reading →

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All of it: not just the tasty bits.

Posted on July 10, 2015 by julianstodd

For an organisation to be effective in the Social Age requires broad swathes of change: a recognition of the new ways we work, the ways we collaborate, the impacts of social collaborative technology, the need for evolved leadership models and … Continue reading →

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