All the fantastic talks from Thinking Digital 2010 are now online for your viewing pleasure at:

http://videos.thinkingdigital.co.uk/

I imagine there’s going to be plenty of comprehensive follow ups after ThinkingDigital2010 last week. There’s a good post already here from Michael J Bell (aka digitaljoseph).

I was trying to think how I felt about the conference, still buzzing from it over the weekend, and decided that ‘outrageously uplifting’ was a fair summation. It’s hard to convey the cool atmosphere of the Livecast lounge where I hung out with fellow digerati and even got a free shoulder rub!

You’ll be able to watch videos from the event soon. And the twitter comments are worth a butcher’s if you weren’t there – follow #TDC10.  Also – I’ve uploaded some photos from TDC10 on flickr.

Here’s a few things I learned/realised at TDC10:

I need to play more

You don’t need vast sums of money to create something worthwhile

I have a deep voice, and this is potentially a good thing in terms of ’sound business’ and self-assertion

Visualising data in new ways is revealing, energising and helpful to indviduals and orgs

CAPTCHAs are helping to digitize books, newspapers and old time radio shows – for FREE

If you get creative (and get off your a**) you can create top notch media using cheap(-ish) kit and ‘amplify’ your message fantastically exponentially with social media

The trivial/inexpensive can have massive power in terms of recognition and customer loyalty

If we don’t have stories life becomes inauthentic

Diamond Shreddies are a genius invention

Also – a few book tips from the speakers:

Pull
Bursts
Predictably Irrational
Obliquity
Nudge

The easiest way to see these books is probably to look at my Amazon Wishlist

So now to follow up on all the business cards I gathered.

And will post as soon as videos go online.

I only just located this video from a the panel I chaired at Streaming Media Europe last year. I find there’s often a distinct lack of female representation at digital media conferences, so I did want the panel to be all women, but somehow didn’t manage it. But anyway – Martin, Alex and Andy were great of course and very kindly gave their time,  so I’m not complaining. And Caroline added a splash of colour as always :)

The discussion covers all kinds of things – creative approaches to content, audiences as creators, communities and community ‘tv’, extending the online video experience into the ‘real world’, authentic experiences. We went a bit off on a tangent from the official seminar synopsis, but hey, we’re creative so we’re allowed. Have a watch or listen to this anyway. Let me know what you think.

You can get to the rest of the videos from this conference, and others on StreamingMedia.com

There’s some great notes below for those in the creative indsutries, taken from the spin-off ‘unconference’ that happened instantaneously during the C&binet Forum, driven by twitter with the hashtag #outofthecloset – so you can check out the tweets for yourself.

Claire Reddington from the Pervasive Media Studio and Jaya Chakrabati, MD of Nameless have most kindly written up notes. As food for thought or call to action, these words are worth a read. With funding cuts to the creative industries and tough times for small businesses, there has never been more need for collaboration. But how do we achieve this? What can or should C&binet be doing in future? How do we best learn from each other and get government to listen and put money where their mouth is? Do we need more support to develop leadership skills or understand legal issues?

The debate continues…

a C&binet unconference (Jaya’s notes)

Disruption and curiosity: #outofthecloset unconference (Claire’s notes)

[image above courtesy of Duncan Cumming - licensed under Creative Commons)

I’ll be hosting a panel called Creativity Bytes at Streaming Media Europe on 15th October at 4pm. Joining me will be Andy Bell from Mint Digital, Caroline Bottomley from Radar Music Videos, Alex Morrison of Cogapp and Noostar, and Dr Martin Zimper from Zurich University of the Arts.

Here’s the synposis:

“What can we learn from the way that creative businesses, artists and educators use online video? This panel session will look at the importance of digital archives for creative and educational projects; creative approaches to content production; collaborative projects and out of the ordinary strategies that use streaming video to create new narratives and deliver cross-platform events in the real and virtual world.”

Just a few things to cover in an hour then…

Check out the conference programme now at StreamingMedia.com

I recently met Martin Zimper, head of CAST, Europe’s first Bachelor’s programme for mobile and digital content at the Zurich University of the Arts. He’s written an essay on writing for ‘webisodes’ and the small screen, which looks at new models of non-linear media distribution and how non-established producers are gaining ground as broadcasters and film companies search webtv platforms for new talent.

He makes a great point in his essay when he writes, “It is no longer enough to tell a great story in linear fashion…What is important…is the discussion and conversation about the story itself on internet platforms, in chat rooms, on blogs and in social networks.” You can read the full article here. And you can see him in action here, (in German).