Earlier this year, the New Zealand Police introduced Roadwatch , where motorists could narc on others. It’s not a bad idea: New Zealand drivers are pretty appalling by western standards, and as I noted on my personal blog, I have found plenty of people running red lights of late . (Not yellow, red .) Those filing reports have to include

I’m rather happy today that we may have been the first to publish a photograph of the new Jaguar XJ , without breaking the media embargo. While the British press was scooping the car on various websites and breaking the embargo, they seem to have missed a photograph that was not covered, which we ran at Lucire this morning

William Petersen as Gil Grissom, David Caruso as Horatio Caine, Gary Sinese as Mac Taylor, Mark Harmon as Jethro Gibbs, Anthony LaPaglia as Jack Malone. These guys are the franchise players of primetime TV.  But they are also role models.  Each represents a different management style.David Caruso in CSI: Miami seems to have contracted a terrible

.. is the practice. The "best"? Not so much. I usually panic a little when people ask me about best practice in facilitation. I found myself emailing this to a client the other day (he was asking about training facilitators): People often say they want best practice as if there is a safe and official way to run meetings whereas I believe

This is a great five-minute video from Rob Paterson. Chris Corrigan and Rob compare a meadow next to a ploughed field. It's a pretty compelling metaphor for the difference between a natural community and a conventional organisation. It had me hooked the moment Chris steps from one to the other and discovers an eight-inch difference in the

It's a veritable treasure trove.  I just found a Outlook database created when I was the head of the Institute of Contemporary Culture in Toronto.  It's large (4000 names) and it's old (about 16 years old).  It was great to see familiar names, and I thought I would plug some of them into Facebook, the new rolodex of the digital age

On July 7, 2005, my friend and colleague Colin Morley set out on the London public transport system, and was one of the victims caught up in the bombings that day, namely at Edgware Road.    We at the Medinge Group remember Colin, and each year we pay tribute to him by presenting the Colin Morley Award to a non-profit organization that has

Steve Rubel, long a maven of PR and the new media, is now committing his life to digital memory. To the right, Steve's diagram of how various media will work to capture and communicate the fine details of his professional life. In a couple of centuries, this may make him our Samuel Pepys, a man who speaks for us all when someone comes to see what