connecting the dots
Innovate or Inhibit: Can large companies collaborate with smaller businesses?
In early July we hosted a collaborative debate. What’s that you ask? Well, it’s a debate with a difference. A collaborative debate lets the whole audience fully participate in the discussion, so everyone’s ideas and voices are heard, which we Read More
Connecting the Posts: Seven Things to Think About When Collaborating
Over the last ten posts we’ve spoken with 20 collaborators who have shared their experiences with us. But are there any common threads between these varied and innovative collaborations? What can we learn collectively, from the experience of these projects? Read More
Futurecade – A Scientific Approach to Gaming
Beth Hawkins @bethdhawkins Talk Science Project Leader, The Science Museum Kate Booth @KatBoo Client Partner, Preloaded The Science Museum and gaming experts Preloaded came together to get young people excited about science through the creation of a suite of online games. As Read More
Fashion firsts: Aurasma and the British Fashion Council
Rosanna Falconer @BFC Digital Marketing Executive, British Fashion Council Matt Mills @Aurasma Head of Innovation & Strategic Partnerships at Aurasma Here, Rosanna Falconer, from the British Fashion Council, and Matt Mills, from Aurasma, share how they worked through the night Read More
Collaborating with the Crowd
Roland Harwood @rolandharwood Co-Founder 100% Open Shelley Kuipers, @shelleykuipers Founder/ CEO, Chaordix Here Roland Harwood and Shelley Kuipers, CEO Chaordix share insight into why they work so well together and how businesses can benefit by embracing the crowd. 100% Open is a British Read More
Open APIs and Content Companies
Tom Stork, @tdstork Sales Director, Apigee Deborah Akinpelu (DA), @PearsonAPI Dan Murphy (DM) @dgem Pearson Future Technologies (R&D) The opportunity to innovate: Opening up content to internal and external developers. When we started Connecting the Dots our main inspiration was Read More
Social TV – Mapping the Future of Television
Emma Mulqueeny @hubmum Director and Co-founder of Rewired State Toby Moores @sleepydog CEO of Sleepydog Media innovator Toby Moores teamed up with Rewired State’s network of developers to explore the future of Social TV. One-way television is a thing of Read More
TechHub and Livesheets – International collaborations
Daniel Maxwell, @DanielJMaxwell Founder Livesheets Elizabeth Varley, @evarley and Andris Berzins, @akberzins CEO TechHub // Director TechHub Riga For TechHub resident Daniel Maxwell, founder of Livesheets, and TechHub’s Elizabeth Varley and Andris Berzins, collaboration is a day-to-day reality, multi-region challenge Read More
Spinebreakers – Putting Teenagers In Charge
Anna Rafferty @raffers Managing Director, Penguin Digital Kate Brundle (K), Callum McGeoch (C) @livityuk Associate Director // Creative and Content Director In 2007 the Penguin UK marketing department faced a problem – Penguin was publishing more books for young people Read More
FutureBook – Building Communities
Sam Missingham @samatlounge Head of Events and Marketing for Bookseller group Nick Harkaway @Harkaway Novelist and Future Book contributor As a leading business magazine for the book industry since 1858, The Bookseller has cultivated a blogger community which brings together Read More