Posts Tagged ‘social media’
August 27th, 2012 • Posted in Conferences, Travel Adventures
I am thrilled about participating in TEDx Transmedia. I’ll be the final speaker there at the end of the day. They have a stellar lineup of speakers, all exploring the future potential for media. It’s happening in Rome on September 28.
Below I’ve posted a preview interview that I did for the event. Personally I find the word “transmedia” inelegant, like new media in drag, but I am a big fan of innovation in television. I am looking forward to seeing some amazing things in Rome.
TEDxTransmedia (TXT): Hi Robert, please can you give a brief overview of your relationship with Transmedia? What do you think of the term?
Robert Tercek (RT): The word “transmedia” may not beautiful, but the concept is deeply appealing. Continue Reading
Tags: Future of Media, future of TV, new media, Rome, social media, speeches, TED, TEDx, television
April 24th, 2012 • Posted in Conferences, General Observations, Video Clips
In my previous post, I shared the first half of the transcript for my opening keynote speech about the future of television at the PrimeTime conference in Ottawa in March. Below you will find the text for the second half of the complete transcript for my speech. This section focuses on Facebook’s impact on social media, Google’s impressive collection of video properties, and it concludes with speculation about how the future media landscape will be controlled. The final section includes a quick survey of the amazing diversity of original video content on digital platforms. Enjoy.
THE FOLLOWING IS THE SECOND HALF OF THE TRANSCRIPT.
To read the first half, click here.
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Tags: Apple, Conferences, digital media, Future of Media, Future of Social Media, future of TV, Google, innovation, Mobile phone, public speaking, social media, social software, speeches, television, Twitter
April 24th, 2012 • Posted in Conferences, Featured, General Observations
On Thursday, March 1, 2012, I gave the opening keynote speech at the CMPA’s PrimeTime conference in Ottawa. My topic was the future of the television. This talk examines the disruption of the old television industry and the rapid emergence of an entirely new ecosystem for digital video.
This clip includes the full video of the speech. I’ve included the text transcript below.
[Topics: second-screen apps, social discovery, over-the-top video OTT, cord-cutting, disruption in cable TV and pay TV, the rise of the new ecosystem, the changes wrought by Facebook, Google, Apple, Amazon and other technology giants, and the Motorola acquisition by Google. Also includes discussion about Aereo, Boxee, and other new players.
The following text is the edited transcript of my speech. Continue Reading
Tags: digital media, digital video, Future of Media, Future of Social Media, future of TV, Google, innovation, new media, social media, social software, speeches, television
April 16th, 2012 • Posted in General Observations
I get a great deal of satisfaction from helping my portfolio of startup ventures make progress. During the past six months, I’ve had the pleasure of collaborating with longtime friend Brian Bowman, who just launched social dating site
TheComplete.me with a big round of funding from Intel Capital, PlentyofFish and the CrunchFund as well as a group of individual investors. Here’s the news via
TechCrunch.
What makes TheComplete.me different and, in my view, significant, is that
Continue ReadingTags: clients in the news, funding, Future of Social Media, good ideas, innovation, online dating, social media, social networking, social software, startup ventures, strategic advisory clients
June 2nd, 2011 • Posted in Conferences, Creative Process, Featured, Video Clips
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 passion and ideas. The ideas that get me most excited these days don’t come from big corporations or even startup ventures. They tend to come from individuals who are working outside of the context of business entirely. I decided to focus my comments on four activists who are using media to tell stories that literally change the world. I find these people very inspiring. They are some of the 85 Creative Activists sponsored by the Creative Visions Foundation, where I have been involved on a volunteer basis.
Tags: collaboration, collaborative creativity, Conferences, creativity, digital media, Future of Media, Future of Social Media, future of TV, good ideas, innovation, new media, personal development, public speaking, remarkable people, social media, social progress, social software, television
March 15th, 2011 • Posted in Conferences, Creative Process, Video Clips
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.” And my message was that the architecture of a business determines how its creative energy is channeled. Fairfax Media kindly provided me the video, posted here. Continue Reading
Tags: collaborative creativity, Conferences, creativity, digital media, Future of Media, Future of Social Media, future of TV, innovation, new media, old media, open architecture, open versus closed, social media, television, x media lab
March 12th, 2011 • Posted in Creative Process, General Observations, Video Clips
This week I was a guest on “
This Week In Careers.” Host Lisa Mandell interviewed me about career opportunities of the future. I spoke about several industries that will grow this decade and the steps to take now to prepare for the jobs of the future.
In a wide-ranging interview, we covered several topics, including several lessons that I’ve learned in my 22 year career as a TV director, game designer, creative executive and entrepreneur:
- Two essential steps that every young person should take in college to prepare for the future;
- How to make yourself irreplaceable at work by becoming an in-house expert;
- Three books that will dramatically change your perspective about your next career;
- How to evaluate the tradeoff between career advancement versus earning a graduate degree;
- The importance of international experience: the benefit of gaining new cultural perspectives;
- Four industries that are poised for explosive growth this decade.
This Week In is a bold new startup founded by serial entrepreneur
Jason Calacanis and a smart young CEO
Mark Jeffrey. Online video is growing fast, and this company is doing exciting things. They’ve mastered the art of rapid video production and low cost distribution, which are two evolutionary skillsets necessary to thrive in the online ecosystem. It’s definitely worth keeping an eye on
ThisWeekIn.com.
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Tags: career advice, corporate culture, creativity, digital media, Future of Media, Future of Social Media, good ideas, innovation, international, new media, social media, social software
November 7th, 2010 • Posted in General Observations
I’m not referring to your web browsing habits (there is already a
multi-billion dollar industry of tracking your online behavior). I’m talking about your daily activity in the city where you live.
Tags: 1984, bad execution, debate, orwell, security, social media, social software, spyware, surveillance
July 10th, 2010 • Posted in General Observations
Here we are, in low foothills of the second century of electronic media, and already the slogan “All media will be social media” has evolved from a rallying cry into a humdrum truism. But social media remains elusive and rather hard to define, primarily because human social interaction is so complex, varying by context and by situation, and also because of the rapid evolution of social software. Even though it is fairly obvious that two-way conversations will become an embedded feature of every media object, many media companies have struggled to find the best path towards integrating social features into their content offerings.No company’s travails have been more widely publicized and studied than
Continue ReadingTags: good ideas, inovation, social media, social software
January 3rd, 2010 • Posted in General Observations
This week everybody seems to have a Top Ten list to herald the dawn of a new decade. Never one to miss a chance to jump on a rolling bandwagon, I decided to chime in with my own list of the lists that caught my attention.
Did I miss one? Got a suggestion? I’d love to hear it. Post it in the comments, please!
Ten items for the next decade that captivate the Irish rocker’s imagination. Characteristically capricious and wide ranging. Bono zooms from the micro to the macro in this assortment of predictions.. See yesterday’s NYT.
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Tags: Bono, digital media, Google, innovation, new media, New York Times, predictions, social media, tech trends, Techcrunch, the future, top ten lists, Twitter
I am thrilled about participating in TEDx Transmedia. I’ll be the final speaker there at the end of the day. They have a stellar lineup of speakers, all exploring the future potential for media. It’s happening in Rome on September 28. 
