Posts Tagged ‘Productive Game’

Cloud Noise

Wednesday, May 18th, 2011

Toby Daniels (@tobyd), co-founder of Social Media Week, passed along this video this morning. It’s hilarious, and as the title of Charna Halpern and Kim Howard Johnson’s famous book goes, there’s a lot of Truth in Comedy.

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Here’s the Truth in this scene: With the coming of the cloud, there’s going to be so much new information coming online all the time that the invitation is to stay comfortably lost in it all, rambling on about our own stuff without really listening. Ever. We’re full of it. Just like these guys. Truth.

So what are we listening for?  For the game we can play together. From a productive game will come a narrative that makes sense of it all. But only after the the game has been played.

Later, when people ask, we can look back and say, “That was our strategy.”

Meanwhile, I sort of agree with the caption on the video: ‘The best strategy is one you don’t understand.’ Funny. True.

Solar Paneling the Hollywood Sign

Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009

Today, Earth Day, at 1:30 PDT at the Roosevelt Hotel in Hollywood, a group of five people, including me, will meet with the ten members of the Hollywood Sign Trust to propose the installation of solar paneling on the Hollywood Sign. I can’t think of a better or quest for Earth Day than this one.SPHS1

‘Solar Paneling the Hollywood Sign’ exemplifies what we at GameChangers call a productive game.  Here’s how the game has played out before today… (more…)

Young@Heart

Sunday, January 11th, 2009

Young@Heart1Over the holidays, our friend Dean Read, the national sales director for RedDot, loaned us his copy of Young@Heart, an outstanding British-produced documentary about a singing group of old folks from Massachusetts who inspire audiences by rocking out on young songs. Formed by its musical director, Bob Cilman, in 1982, the group originally sang lots of old standards, but has steadily gotten younger with its music over the years. In their concerts today, they perform numbers by the likes of the Talking Heads, The Clash, and Coldplay. The film deservedly got a lot of attention when it was released in 2008. (more…)