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

I’ve been seeing more and more people use Prezi to deliver presentations lately. It’s an inspired alternative to PowerPoint and well worth investigating.

Have a look at this example: Why You Should Move Beyond Slides which talks about how we humans don’t always think in a linear fashion, and about how having ‘infinite space’ to work with can open up creative possibilities, enable you to show relationships and context,  and hide or reveal details (without having to switch back to the ‘normal’ view where you built your presentation which can look very unprofessional or clunky in PowerPoint – we’ve all seen presenters grappling with where things are on the conference organiser’s desktop, or searching back through their slides and having to step through each one in sequence).

We film a lot of conferences and attend them regularly as delegates. I definitely think a new way of presenting is long overdue and am looking forward to experimenting with Prezi. It’ll be interesting to see if it goes mainstream, at the moment it’s definitely going to make you look cool if you use it :)

Follow them on twitter to keep tabs on updates and bugs – http://twitter.com/prezi

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.

On 31st March 2010 at the Wellcome Collection in London, the first full day BectaX event will take place with an accompanying online event made up of a live webcast with some seriously interactive twitter and chatroom activity.

Schools from across the UK have been invited to join in, with their comments appearing on an interactive map as they tweet and chat whilst watching the live stream. The chat room has been provided by our genius friends at muchosmedia - with all the live vision mixing, archiving and global streaming delivered (of course) by Kinura.

BectaX is part of Becta’s “Fit for the Future” programme: the project is being produced by Just-b.

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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

Join the webcast and connect via YouTube, Facebook, Flickr and Twitter here.

One Young World, nicknamed Young Davos by some media outlets, is the world’s first global youth leadership summit. Bringing together several hundred delegates age 25 and under from the world’s 192 countries, One Young World combines the social power of the Internet with the energy and ideas of global youth to address the most challenging issues of today. Founded by David Jones, global CEO of Havas Worldwide, and Kate Robertson, Euro RSCG group chairman, One Young World focuses on plenary sessions at which delegates are guided by a group of international luminaries including Kofi Annan, Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Bob Geldof. The inaugural London summit on Feb. 8-10, 2010, will be open to the entire globe and people of all ages through online streaming and real-time updates.

Dan Pink writes about ‘the science of motivation’ and is touring the UK for a few days to speak about his new book, DRIVE: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us. He’s appeared on TED so you can watch him there-or I’ve embedded the video below for your convenience.

Yes! It’s that time of year again. We’re webcasting the wonderful Power to the Pixel Cross-Media Forum on 14th October from bfi Southbank in London .

If you want to get the lowdown on collaborative digital film-making and multi-platform storytelling, or hear about the latest models in film financing and distribution, then you can’t miss this groundbreaking event.

The conference will be streamed live and then archived for your laid-back viewing pleasure. We’re also working with ScreenWM to stream the webcast into a venue in Birmingham if you’re based in the midlands. Sign up to Power to the Pixel’s feeds to find out more and stay updated.

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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