James Samuel

My ears pricked up when I heard that heads of state and the financial elite are acknowledging that we are in …the “age of damage”, where “social media creates a world of radical transparency”. 
The suggestion by the founder of the WEF summit, Prof Klaus Schwab that: “Capitalism in its current form no longer fits the world around us,” shows the depth of change which social media has brought to our world.

Wondering whether Social Media deserves more of your attention than you’re currently giving it? If so, these workshops I’m offering in Dunedin, Queenstown, and Wellington might be right up your alley.

The current path we’re on is not sustainable and many have realized that society has now arrived at a vulnerable point in history as a result of over-dependence on fossil fuels and carbon energy. In this article I will make the case for innovation as the post-carbon energy we have yet to tap, but are about to.

After having a ball with Graduate Diploma students in Wanaka, two business workshops in Queenstown, and a five hour staff development session with Otago Polytechnic’s heads f departments, it seemed only right to offer the same to all you Aucklanders.

Are we in a period of increasing unpredictability, the present being a taste of things to come? Does this chaos provide an opportunity to be part of shaping the future, being a co-creator of the desired and plausible future?

Here’s the Prezi I created to guide the five hour Social Media session with Otago Polytechnic’s heads of department. I’m posting it here as a resource for the people who attended that event, as there are a number of videos and links we didn’t have time to explore fully on the day. View this on [...]

If you’d read the last post, you may have been left wondering how long I might be down for, but I’m back and the reason for this post is that I wanted to record a process I’ve been going through that some of you might relate to and have some insights into. For the last [...]

I discovered this tool yesterday, while looking for a timeline of the evolution of social media technology. I decided to create my own timeline of how I’ve used social media, since embracing email back in 1985.

I enjoy describing Twitter to people interested in social media, because it offers an opportunity to make the distinction between social media and the old media paradigm. The new model isn’t about copying the old media makers and broadcasting our message, but engaging the ‘social’ part of social media, and building communities of interest – understanding that we first need to make use of the listening tools.

How do you find ideas that are going to support your work, your passion, when you don’t know what you don’t know? You’re looking for inspiration that will help grow your capacity to do what you do, yet we live in a time when it’s we might reasonably wonder if we’re about to drown, not from rising sea levels, but from an over abundance of information.