Apps4Africa: Q&A Discussion About Climate Change Solutions with Mariéme Jamme. Says By 2015, More Than 50 Percent of Organizations That Manage Innovation Processes Will Gamify Those Processes. Egham, UK, April 12, 2011 View All Press Releases Analysts Explore the Role of Enterprise Architects in Gamification at Gartner Enterprise Architecture Summit 2011, May 9-10, London, and June 22-23 in San Diego By 2015, more than 50 percent of organizations that manage innovation processes will gamify those processes, according to Gartner, Inc.
By 2014, a gamified service for consumer goods marketing and customer retention will become as important as Facebook, eBay or Amazon, and more than 70 percent of Global 2000 organizations will have at least one gamified application. "Gamification describes the broad trend of employing game mechanics to non-game environments such as innovation, marketing, training, employee performance, health and social change," said Brian Burke, an analyst at Gartner. For example, the U.K.' The goals of gamification are to achieve higher levels of engagement, change behaviors and stimulate innovation. 1. 2. 3. 4. Contacts About Gartner Gartner, Inc. Portland’s Creative Class Slump.
Global entertainment and media outlook: 2011-2015: Explore the data. Opportunities and challenges vary by market and industry segment Hear from Marcel Fenez, Global leader, Entertainment and media, on the global growth picture for entertainment and media Analysis of the consumer and advertising spend data in this year’s online Outlook 2013-2017, shows that the consumer demand for entertainment and media (E&M) experiences, fuelled largely by the adoption of broadband and connected devices, will continue to grow and we expect this growth to follow a similar trend to GDP development across the forecast period 2013-2017. However, given the shift towards digital media—typically lower priced than its physical counterpart—we anticipate spend to lag behind GDP growth.
The global E&M market will grow at a CAGR of 5.6% over the next five years, generating revenues in 2017 of US$2.2tn, up from US$1.6tn in 2012. Within this overall figure, all three sub-categories—advertising, consumer spend on content, and access—will continue to grow, but at varying rates. TV, radio & multimedia training courses - The Académie FRANCE 24, MCD, RFI. Facebook, Social Networks Get Greater Share of Online Ad Spend. More marketers than ever believe their brands should be engaging with consumers on social networks—and advertising is an increasingly successful tool for doing so.
As a result, worldwide social network ad revenues will surpass $8 billion in 2012 and approach $10 billion by 2013. Spending in the US will reach $3.9 billion next year, up from $2.74 billion in 2011. In 2013, US advertisers are expected to spend $4.81 billion on social network advertising, up 23.4% over 2012. “As more companies build out their marketing presence in social networks, they are also increasing their focus on spending ad dollars there,” said Debra Aho Williamson, eMarketer principal analyst and author of the new report, “Worldwide Social Network Ad Revenues: A $10 Billion Market by 2013.” “Social networks have cemented their place in advertising, not just marketing.”
Facebook will get the vast majority of social network ad revenues. The 8 Worst Fonts In The World | Co. Design. We’d need another book, of course, to do this justice. And where would one start? Fonts are like cars on the street--we notice only the most beautiful or ugly, the funniest or the flashiest. The vast majority roll on regardless. There may be many reasons why we dislike or distrust certain fonts, and overuse and misuse are only starting points. Fonts may trigger memory as pungently as perfume: Gill Sans can summon up exam papers. Trajan may remind us of lousy choices at the cinema (you’ll see it on the posters of more bad films than any other font) and grueling evenings with Russell Crowe.
Most of the time we only notice typeface mistakes, or things before or behind their times. The Top Tens were: Used Regularly: Frutiger (23 respondents) Helvetica/Helvetica Neue (21) Futura (15) Gill Sans (13) Univers (11) Garamond (10) Bembo Franklin Gothic (8) 9. Highly Visible: Least Favorite: The Least Favorite survey contained brief explanations. This was not the first such survey to be conducted. "The three? - House of Horrors " Audiogent. "What Makes Us Kenyans" (The Team TV Production - Kenya) News. Community Outreach: Looking Back, Moving Forward For the past 4 years, Media Focus on Africa (MFA) together with Search for Common Ground (SFCG) has been facilitating inter-ethnic community dialogue sessions among the youths across the country, based on the drama series, The Team.
This has been informed by the violence that rocked Kenya after the disputed 2007 elections that saw over a thousand people killed and hundreds of thousands displaced from their homes. The nature of politics in Kenya is that it is built on ethnic foundations, and this is always magnified when the general elections draw near. This did not change in the 2013 elections and MFA together with SFCG saw it necessarily to increase their efforts in peace building by investing more in the dialogue sessions before the elections happened. In this last year however (as Kenya approached the elections), discussions centered mostly on peaceful elections. If you missed the Team on radio, no need to worry. Click here. Museum strategy. Download.www.arte.tv/permanent/u6/plaquette2010/2009-2010_Rapport_Annuel_DE.pdf. Www.bmz.de/de/publikationen/reihen/infobroschueren_flyer/infobroschueren/Materialie183.pdf. Reasons to add your information to Culture24.
The Culture24 network is centred on our rather unglamorously titled listings and resources system, DDE (Direct Data Entry). DDE feeds the database underpinning our website and services. The data is maintained by more than 4,000 UK museums, galleries, libraries, archives, science centres and heritage sites who update entries themselves via a set of simple, password-protected web pages. If you're not already using the DDE system, or if you have an entry but it's not being updated, here are a few reasons why we think it's a good idea to get stuck in. It’s free! If you'd like to know how to use DDE, you can find out more here Read the DDE Terms and Conditions.
Top 5 Tools to Better Time Your Tweets. Leo Widrich is the co-founder of Buffer, a smarter way to publish tweets and Facebook posts. He writes more about Twitter tips and tools on the Buffer blog. Follow him on Twitter @LeoWid. When exactly are your best times to tweet? With over 200 million tweets posted each day, this is a very important question to tackle. When you better time your tweets, you’re better able to reach your followers. Furthermore, knowing when they’re actually online is incredibly important. Let’s examine different tools that help determine Twitter metrics. 1.
This first tool is certainly my favorite in terms of simplicity. Your best times are determined by two key measures: the performance of your past tweets and when most of your followers will be online. 2. TweetStats is a comprehensive tool that provides more detailed best tweeting times. The app also features a tweet density report. 3. My favorite in terms of algorithm is certainly Tweriod. 4. 5. What else is important other than timing? 24 Hour Museum To Become Culture24! Culture Secretary James Purnell with Jane Finnis and John Newbigin of Culture24. © Jon Pratty / Culture24 The organisation that publishes 24 Hour Museum changed its name to Culture24 on November 26 2007, beginning a period of change and development that will see the family of websites rebuilt, renamed and relaunched in spring 2008.
For now though, although the organisation's name changes to Culture24, the current websites stay the same, with the same names and URLs. The Culture24 name was launched at a celebratory event hosted by Culture Secretary James Purnell at the Department of Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) office. Also present were Roy Clare, Chief Executive of MLA, Alan Davey (Director of Culture, DCMS) and Bill Morris of LOCOG, (the London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games.) MLA Chief Executive, Roy Clare © Jon Pratty / Culture24 John Newbigin, Chair of the Trustees, Culture24. Jon Pratty / Culture24. Nigeria's film industry: Nollywood dreams. How The Huffington Post Works (In Case You Were Wondering) Hi! In the wake of the AOL acquisition, I've been reading a lot about The Huffington Post from a lot of people who, as outsiders, don't really have any idea about what we do here.
They nevertheless have all sorts of opinions. And that's okay! But I thought it would be useful to address the issue of our content model, and who gets paid and who doesn't, from the perspective of someone who actually knows something about it. Let's begin! It's often written: "HuffPost does not pay its writers. " Being a paid employee comes with many expectations and responsibilities. Is the State of the Union tonight? Those are the sorts of responsibilities, that, when they are fulfilled, entitle one to a "salary. " Now, another big portion of the everything else is "content aggregation. " From there, here's what the daily life of our front page editors are like. Now, people often wonder: why would anyone blog for free, at a place that pays other contributors?
Obviously, I didn't stop contributing. Europe’s national librarians support opening up their data via CC0. Jane Park, October 4th, 2011 Following the exciting news of Europeana’s new data exchange agreement, which authorizes Europeana to release the metadata for millions of cultural works into the public domain using the CC0 public domain dedication, the Conference of European National Librarians (CENL) voted to support the agreement in a meeting last week at the Royal Library of Denmark.
CENL represents Europe’s national libraries and “is responsible for the massive collection of publications that represent the accumulated knowledge of Europe.” From the press release, “It means that the datasets describing all the millions of books and texts ever published in Europe – the title, author, date, imprint, place of publication and so on, which exists in the vast library catalogues of Europe – will become increasingly accessible for anybody to re-use for whatever purpose they want.
…Bruno Racine, new Chair of CENL and President of the Bibliothèque nationale de France, and Dr. D+c-2011-10-sw-moyo: African expert assesses 50 years of German development policy - Development and Cooperation - International Journal. Current development cooperation “made in Germany” has little in common with the way “development aid” was done back in 1961. The focus on poverty reduction is good, and Germany’s approach has become more collaborative.
Nonetheless, there are a few ways in which German programmes in Africa could become even more transformative. By Sipho Moyo Development aid towards Africa was highly politicised in the Cold War era. The post-World War II division of Germany was not just a German reality – it was also felt in Africa, the continent where many proxy wars were fought. African countries dealt with two Germanys and their respective political philosophies for decades. East German solidarity In its early years, the East German Democratic Republic’s (GDR) main diplomatic ambition was to be internationally recognised. High ranking (former) officials from these liberation parties still appreciate the early critical support they received from the GDR. The same, but opposite Contemporary challenges. Coca-Cola Launches Global Music Effort to Connect With Teens | Global News.
Urbanology Online. Emma | european media management education association: Call for Paper. Call for Papers ⇒ download ⇐ The deadline for abstracts was 15 November 2011 Media management is not a new practice, but it is a relatively new field of academic investigation and scholarship. It has roots in historic traditions of media economics, and the study of media and of management have even longer, deeper roots in respective disciplines. However, it is nonetheless important to observe that the conjunction of the two aspects comprising our field is comparatively new and that much of the work to date has been derivative rather than specifically about the management of media firms, and is often more descriptive than theory-oriented.The 2012 EMMA conference will take a step in contributing to the maturing of our field as a mutual endeavour, focusing on the management of media firms as an area deserving emphasis in empirical research, critical scrutiny, and the development of theory.The panel of reviewers will give consideration to all papers addressing the theme of the conference.