Re: UKNM: RE: Ideaz

[David Cabrera]

Linking war memorials to new media is an interesting thought but one that

I'm not going to explore


Back to work


David


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From: John Foster-Hill <

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Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2001 11:46 AM

Subject: RE: UKNM: RE: Ideaz



> Though, of course, war memorials celebrate the power of groups of

'ordinary'

> people getting together very ably...

>

> And another thought, given our area of interest - the internet (and UKNM)

> itself wouldn't exist with people coming together to create a whole

greater

> than the sum of the parts, it is in a sense one huge committee...

>

> Read Kevin Kelley's thoughts on the 'hive mind' - much food for thought

> there...

>

> -----Original Message-----

>

From: David Cabrera [dcabreraauracorp [dot] co [dot] uk (mailto:dcabreraauracorp [dot] co [dot] uk)]

> Sent: 11 January 2001 09:04

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To: uknmchinwag [dot] com

> Subject: Re: UKNM: RE: Ideaz

>

>

> As David Ogilvy once said "in all the parks in all the cities, I have

never

> seen a statue to one committee"

>

>

> ----- Original Message -----

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From: John Braithwaite <JohnBGBGdirect [dot] com>

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To: <uknmchinwag [dot] com>

> Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2001 5:43 PM

> Subject: UKNM: RE: Ideaz

>

>

> > Ray Said:

> > In my experience, far from producing mediocre ideas, ten mediocre people

> > working in a team with the right approach can produce far more

meaningful

> > and useful ideas than any number of prima donnas working alone.

> >

> > JB writes:

> > I disagree Ray (for a change!). I think people with genuine Creative and

> > Applicable Business Ideas are very hard to come by. IMHO part of the

> problem

> > with the dot-com boom was that people weren't creative enough. All they

> were

> > doing was rushing to fill in the gaps ....

> >

> > "anyone selling floor varnish online?"

> > "no"

> > "Quick, knock up a business plan. There must be someone dumb enough to

> > invest in it!"

> >

> > "anyone selling tictacs online?"

> > etc.

> >

> > Perhaps they would have done better thinking beyond taking what they

know

> of

> > the world online and consider what could be delivered online for the

work.

> >

> > Teams are great for implementing ideas, not creating them.

> >

> > J

> > (Did anyone notice that I used a 'z' in 'ideaz' to make it see all 'New

> > Media'? Cool, eh?)



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