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.

Trading through a Facebook group, is so simple and natural, and after all it’s where the crowd is. After only a few weeks, membership of the “Waiheke Trading” Facebook is up to 660 members, and the Waiheke community are embracing it with alacrity.

After watching this video, I followed the link to the Natural Homes site, and discovered this beautiful gallery of photos (below), which led me in turn to the Facebook gallery with explanations of each photo according to that most inspiring book “A Pattern Language“. I was given this book by my wife when I was [...]

A veritable flood of companies and organisations are taking up enterprise social networking tools. From medium sized social businesses to multi-national corporations, organisations are looking to build a culture of increased openness, transparency, sharing and collaboration.

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 [...]