COLLABORATIVE CREATIVITY

Here’s the video of my recent speech at TEDxMarin.  The theme of the event was “Communication Revolution”.  The organizers invited me to speak about the future of television, social media and personal storytelling. Robert Tercek at TEDxMarin May 2011: “Reclaiming The Power of Personal Narrative” from Robert Tercek on Vimeo. TED talks are all about [...]

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Last week I attended the Digital Directions conference hosted by Fairfax Media and X | Media Lab in Sydney.  A series of outstanding speakers, including Tim Wu, Gigi Wang, Kevin Anderson, Baratunde Thurston, Riyaad Minty, Anthony Rose and others shared their perspectives. My topic was “Coercion and Cooperation in the Second Century of Electronic Media.” [...]

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This week I interviewed Pranav Mistry onstage at the Creativity World Forum in Oklahoma City.   Pranav was catapulted to fame last year by virtue of his talk at TED, titled “The Thrilling Potential of SixthSense Technology.” His formal title is “research assistant and PhD candidate” in the Fluid Interfaces Group at MIT Media Lab.   That title [...]

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Today  the UK firm Visual DNA announced that Robert Tercek has joined their Board of Directors.   Here’s the link to the TechCrunch coverage. For several years, Visual DNA has been developing sophisticated tools for online publishers and advertisers, operating as Imagini Europe.  Now the company is

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Call it the Success Paradox.   When an organization reaches a new stage of growth, it may experience cataclysmic internal turmoil. The Success Paradox happens to startup ventures that lack a cohesive management structure:  when the company makes a growth leap, say, from 25 to 50 employees, or from 100 to 200 employees, the shift [...]

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At a time when margins are tight and disruption occurs on a daily basis, business leaders are under pressure to discover the “next big thing”, such as a breakthrough product that will redefine a category or create an entirely new niche to dominate.  A new process that will save time and money.  A radical efficiency [...]

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“Never make forecasts, especially about the future.” Wise advice from Samuel Goldwyn.   Which I am now about to ignore at my peril.   Here’s my take on what to expect in 2010. 1. The Dawn of Ambient Awareness & Networked Consciousness What happens when real-time status updates and news feeds are combined with GPS [...]

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Check out this useful comment by Mike Hale in today’s NYT heralding the arrival of original video series on the Web.  For too long, broadcasters have regarded the Web as a dumping ground for uninspired promotional content and lame marketing gimmicks for the regular broadcast schedule.  Recently, however, some TV networks are starting to take [...]

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The introduction of Google’s new open source Chrome browser is newsworthy.  So is the way that Google chose to explain the new features to users. Both items are sterling examples of collaborative creativity. Google teamed up with veteran cartoonist Scott McCloud to create a cool graphic narrative about the new browser. During a week of [...]

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My speech at the Cross Media Lab in Melbourne was broadcast last week on ABC 2 in Australia.    The theme of this speech was “Collaborative Creativity”, which refers particularly to my passion for including the audience in the process of creating entertainment.    This is harder than it sounds.  I selected three examples from my personal [...]

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