Digital Anthropology and Your Tribe

TalkTalk is a provider of digital communication technology services in the UK mainly. The recently teamed up with the University of Kent to research peoples' attitudes and behaviours towards the digital world. The aim was to go beyond traditional rseearch to determine how techonology fits into our lives.

Six stereotypes were identified - the Digital Extroverts, the Timid Technophobes, the Social Secretaries, the First Lifers,the E-ager Beavers, the Web Boomers, full descriptions of which can be read from the full report Digital Anthrolopogy.

Fancy seeing which tribe you belong to...Take the quick quiz to find out.

Learning and Working in the Collaborative Age: A New Model for the Workplace

Randy Nelson, Dean of Pixar University, describes a new model for learning and working in what he calls the Collaborative Age at the Apple Education Leadership Summit

FREE - The Digital Future of Your Organisation

Chris Anderson (canderson@wired.com) is the editor in chief of Wired and author of The Long Tail. His new book, FREE, provides a powerful insight to the future of the Web. Watch the video and then read the more substantial article. Attend one of workshops - FREE: The Digital Future of Your Organisation.

Hyper-Local Hero

Ten years ago, Rob Curley was covering city hall for the Topeka daily paper. Now he's lighting up the entire industry. How a "nerd from Kansas" discovered the web, and hit the big time. On a Saturday afternoon in August, Rob Curley is holed up in a video-production studio in Naples, Florida, with a couple of sleep-deprived colleagues. Between yawns and sodas, they're editing high-school football footage that's scheduled to air tonight on the Web (and on iPods and PlayStation Portables), as well as on local cable. These are only preseason games, but this being football country and all, Curley, the head of new media at the Naples Daily News, wants PrepZone Playbook, his team's newest creation, to rock. Pulsing music, action-packed highlights, slick animation--the works. So he keeps nitpicking. When a reporter appears on-screen, unnamed, to offer postgame analysis, Curley interrupts: "Okay, we have to say who that is right away." The rest, though, looks "fricking awesome, like something on ESPN!"

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Digital Economy Future Directions blog: What is this about?

To start 2009 off, I would like to draw your attention to an interesting blog being run by the Australian Federal Government. The first one, Digital Economy Future Directions blog: What is this about? is being facilitated by Minister Senator StephenConroy through the Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy The purpose of the blog - to assist the Australian Government develop a Future directions paper for the digital economy—a roadmap for Australian businesses, households and government to maximise participation in the digital economy. Themes being covered

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