You might not really know it yet, but your life has probably already turned into a “multi-threaded narrative”. That’s what Duane Bray (talking at the Mashable Connect Conference) called the combination of conversations we hold on mobile phones while checking into Twitter, FB, Foursquare, etc. It is definitely happening to me. Every Sunday night, I [...]
When I was in my late teens, my father took me to Norway one summer to see an old friend. In Oslo, we visited the Munch museum and that’s when I saw The Scream for the first time. Strangely enough I did not find it frightening or unsettling. Through the lenses of my youth, [...]
Am I the only one to disagree with the article that has made the rounds in the communication community this week ? I can’t believe we are still reading about how technology is making us “more connected – and potentially more disconnected – than ever before”. Forbes contributor Susan Tardanico argues that for humans the only possible [...]
In my life, there always seems to be a plane, always an airport ready to edit its story into parts that make up my memories. I spent the weekend in Budapest for the first time in many years. I fell asleep overlooking the Danube and felt that it was watching over me. But surely enough, [...]
Isn’t art like communication very much about the impact it has on the lives of those who experience it? I love the installation that Chinese artist Ai Wei Wei created a few years ago for Germany’s Documenta. For his Fairytale Portraits, he chose 1,001 Chinese citizens who had never travelled abroad (for many Chinese, foreign [...]
I don’t know what it is about e-mail that if you stop receiving it, it makes you feel isolated and utterly unloved? I had a problem with my spam filter last week. I would get up in the morning, stare at my iPhone in desperation and wonder why the whole world had gone silent condemning [...]
I just realized that in the past months I have been writing again and again about aging and my family. Well, it is the Year of Active Aging after all and I might just be going with the flow. Or may be, I need to process the fact that my mum has Parkinson’s and mankind has [...]
Every year on International Women’s Day, I look for role models… someone who embodies the powerful message of this day simply by who they are and what they do. In the past, I have written about women who give a voice to the voiceless. This time, I would like to tell you about a [...]
Ever heard of people complain about intranets that nobody visits? And Sharepoint platforms that don’t produce the interaction its designers where hoping for? Internal communicators these days are desperately looking for ways to tap into the psyche of staff and understand what moves them to populate an online community. The answer might lie in [...]
I don’t usually spend so much time without blogging. But the weeks have been flying by. I am back in London after travelling… and it is almost spring. The days are longer and there is more light… Yes, light is something I have been thinking about a lot lately. It all started with a trip to [...]
