John Cleese explains his methods of dealing with creativity, interruptions and how to create your very own Tortoise enclosure that will allow your unconscious mind the space, and the time, to come out and play.
Most people who have absolutely no idea what they’re doing, have absolutely no idea that they have no idea of what they’re doing. It explains a great deal of life…
(hat tip to 37signals)
What is it about certain faces that seem to make a connection?
I’m sure it can’t just be me that feels there are people that you walk past everyday that immediately make you feel at ease and give you the impression that you could just walk up, say “Hello” and you would have a new friend.
Is it purely physical, or is there a stranger force at work here?
If you’re a Twitter user then you must have stumbled across, or been shouted at by, @lesanto (a.k.a Glenn Le Santo).
Glenn is one of the hardest working people I know and is always ready to help others when the need arises, so now I’m asking you to give a little back.
Today marks a particular milestone in Glenn’s life, and pays testament to the fact that even old people can be cool.
Glenn has reached the ripe old age of 50 and @DarenBBC and I would like to ask you to dig deep and donate whatever you can so that we can give Glenn the birthday he deserves.
“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.’ We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There’s nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It’s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we’re liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”
(A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of “A Course in Miracles”, Marianne Williamson)
After hearing about the launch of CharityComms 2020, I just knew I had to get involved.
Each participant was asked to contribute what they thought would be the five most significant trends that would affect charity communications in the next 10 years, and an accompanying image that represented their vision.
Charities represented in the initiative include Marie Curie Cancer Care, Amnesty International, Macmillan Cancer Support, UNICEF, Friends of the Earth, The Scout Association, and many more. There’s also a host of influential thinkers in the charity comms space who have contributed, including Jonathan Waddingham at JustGiving, Rachel Beer at beautiful world, Steve Bridger and Amy Sample Ward.
“The combined vision of so many influential thinkers in the charity sector has produced a unique insight into the future of communications. We hope CharityComms 2020 will provide ideas and inspiration to enable charities to tackle the challenges of the coming decade with confidence.” – Ben Matthews, founder of Bright One
What are your five?
One of my most favourite tasks that I’m asked to do in my line of work is to create a brand identity.
There’s something very special about being entrusted to visualise the persona of an individual or company, but there are also many dangers so it helps to be working with someone who is equally passionate about achieving the right outcome.
When I was asked to design the logo for @themeet140 I jumped at the chance. I consider Mark and Chris to be among my most closest friends and I am 100% behind what they are achieving with the concept.
Brilliant logo and post. Got it as soon as I saw it. And in fact i think i can see myself?! well it looks like me. 3rd column in, 2 rows up from the bottom (the palest pinky Scottish person) At least I hope it’s me!
Like the idea of each letter touching too. Touching each others lives – what a lovely thought.
Nice one!
Love it!
I’m sure that by now everyone is aware of #duncansdream and all of it’s offshoots, but amongst all of the negativity towards it maybe some of us have missed the benefits.
Big problem here IMO is that #duncansdream is not a request for everyone to follow one person / account, it is a desire to have 96000 people following each other (i.e. 96000 accounts each following and being followed by 96000 people). Your examples above of Cofacio and Eureka140 (great projects IMO by the way : ) are where an account is created with the specific intention of purpose which in their case is crowdsourcing / decision engines, committing to follow them is to commit to at least have them appear in your timeline and in theory, (where appropriate if you want to) interact with them. The problem with having 96000 people to follow however is that your timeline is going to be mostly full of irrelevant noise (as you are in effect following random accounts) and therefore trying to filter our anything useful will be so time consuming, it will effectively defeat the purpose of Twitter. In effect you may as well use an automated engine to gain the random users.
To clarify this position further the inventor of this system is himself only following 122 people which is far from falling into line with the ethos of #duncansdream.
I have followed @duncanbannatyne since he started on Twitter and have heard him say that he only follows who he can as he is “very busy”, which in itself contradicts his system. I did a small investigation today and it appears that most of the people following the scheme are new(ish) to the platform and use this system in the same way as the scam systems that perform auto reciprocal following (if it is still allowed), it is just that it is a more ‘authentic’ and ‘plausible’ system when coming from a very successful businessman / (semi)celebrity.
“…the spread of good and valuable things is required to sustain and nourish social networks. Similarly, social networks are required for the spread of good and valuable things like love and kindness and happiness and altruism and ideas.” – Nicholas Christakis
Hat tip to uberVU
Today’s excursion to the Forties Family event at Bletchely Park has confirmed my suspicions that those boffins at Britain’s super secret wartime intelligence site are at it again and this time they’re cracking a very different code.
Not content with changing the course of the war and saving millions of lives, Bletchley’s technicians are now hard at work deciphering the social code. But while other organisations are busy discussing and planning their strategy these analytical geniuses are DOING!
“I want to put a ding in the universe”
– Steve Jobs
Hat tip to Mike Butcher and Cofacio for adding this to my stream.
Angela Higgins 11:30 pm on July 21, 2010 Permalink
I like this. I don’t know why because I never think I’m adequate enough. I hope to one day let my light shine and be liberated from my fear.