Trends

Just after posting about trends that I wish I could have seen ten years ago, I stumble across Chris Anderson’s Wired article about Free. Fascinating essay about how digital technology has created an economy based on things being free. How do you make money by giving away free stuff? Anderson gives six different business models…

If I could have seen these trends ten years ago, I would be a rich woman today. These are some of the trends that triggered my interest in A Bigger Voice and the related questions I’m exploring: • User-generated content has never been easier to produce and distribute.  Fifty years ago, the common person could…

This from Esther Dyson, one of the movers and shakers in the new digital world: "People now want to spread their presence around the world."  This points to the first half of what A Bigger Voice is about.  The second half is about using that presence to trigger a conversation, one that will shift and…