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Future Agenda: Welcome The next decade will see more people and constrained resources but better connectivity and a shift in economic power to Asia. How will this affect the world we live in? What are the other big issues for the next decade? These are concerns that individuals, companies and governments need to address. The Future Agenda programme, sponsored by Vodafone Group, is a pioneering open foresight project that has brought together informed people from around the world to analyse the crucial themes of the next ten years. This website details the output from multiple discussions.

Moving Movements – A Scholz & Friends Advertising Campaign for the Hamburg Ballet Article by Hyathiz I love my dogs, reading books, and taking great pictures with my battered but still functional digital camera. Taking great pictures with a high end camera is almost too easy, producing fantastic images with an outdated one is an accomplishment by itself. The Hamburg ballet also known as the Hamburg State Opera Ballet, is an internationally acclaimed ballet company located in Germany. To boost ticket sales, they launched their “Moving Movements” advertising campaign. Ballet is all about grace, movement and fluidity and the ads look like they were shot with a kaleidoscope and, true to its slogan, features a LOT of movement.

How you can be a better conference speaker + how to establish credibility and likeability « Chris Adams Project (CAP) Chris Adams is a former Hollywood Exec from Participant Media who would “green light” and develop movies like An Inconvenient Truth and Syriana. Chris has strong experience as a conference speaker at film conferences and more recently about social media. He also has strong (often contrarian) views on what makes a good conference speaker. I’m keen to learn from Chris because I do some conference speaking on the topics of How to Work with the Media and Persuasive Communication – and I want to get better. I study and learn from youtube videos of Chris’s presentations – plus I have the advantage of being able to ask him questions directly when we catch up every month or so when we record a batch of videos for the Chris Adams Project.

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Pointe magazine – Ballet at its Best. At first, Sadie Elliot’s pain was almost unbearable. “It felt like my shin was going to rip out of my leg every time I landed from a jump,” says the Houston Ballet corps member of her initial experience with shin splints. “I was scare to dance full out.” Unable to ignore the pain, she took two weeks off.