Where Good Ideas Come From

We take ideas from other people, from people we’ve learned from, from people we run into in the coffee shop, and we stitch them together into new forms and we create something new. That’s really where innovation happens. And that means that we have to change some of our models of what innovation and deep thinking really looks like, right. I mean, this is one vision of it. Another is Newton and the apple, when Newton was at Cambridge. This is a statue from Oxford. You know, you’re sitting there thinking a deep thought, and the apple falls from the tree, and you have the theory of gravity. In fact, the spaces that have historically led to innovation tend to look like this, right. This is Hogarth’s famous painting of a kind of political dinner at a tavern, but this is what the coffee shops looked like back then. This is the kind of chaotic environment where ideas were likely to come together, where people were likely to have new, interesting, unpredictable collisions — people from different backgrounds. So, if we’re trying to build organizations that are more innovative, we have to build spaces that — strangely enough — look a little bit more like this. This is what your office should look like, is part of my message here.

And one of the problems with this is that people are actually — when you research this field — people are notoriously unreliable, when they actually kind of self-report on where they have their own good ideas, or their history of their best ideas. And a few years ago, a wonderful researcher named Kevin Dunbar decided to go around and basically do the Big Brother approach to figuring out where good ideas come from. He went to a bunch of science labs around the world and videotaped everyone as they were doing every little bit of their job. So when they were sitting in front of the microscope, when they were talking to their colleague at the water cooler, and all these things. And he recorded all of these conversations and tried to figure out where the most important ideas, where they happened. And when we think about the classic image of the scientist in the lab, we have this image — you know, they’re pouring over the microscope, and they see something in the tissue sample. And "oh, eureka," they’ve got the idea.

Where Good Ideas Come From

What happened actually when Dunbar kind of looked at the tape is that, in fact, almost all of the important breakthrough ideas did not happen alone in the lab, in front of the microscope. They happened at the conference table at the weekly lab meeting, when everybody got together and shared their kind of latest data and findings, oftentimes when people shared the mistakes they were having, the error, the noise in the signal they were discovering. And something about that environment — and I’ve started calling it the "liquid network," where you have lots of different ideas that are together, different backgrounds, different interests, jostling with each other, bouncing off each other — that environment is, in fact, the environment that leads to innovation.

The other problem that people have is they like to condense their stories of innovation down to kind of shorter time frames. So they want to tell the story of the "eureka!" moment. They want to say, "There I was, I was standing there and I had it all suddenly clear in my head." But in fact, if you go back and look at the historical record, it turns out that a lot of important ideas have very long incubation periods — I call this the "slow hunch." We’ve heard a lot recently about hunch and instinct and blink-like sudden moments of clarity, but in fact, a lot of great ideas linger on, sometimes for decades, in the back of people’s minds. They have a feeling that there’s an interesting problem, but they don’t quite have the tools yet to discover them. They spend all this time working on certain problems, but there’s another thing lingering there that they’re interested in, but they can’t quite solve.

To find out more about how innovation happens, watch the informative 2 videos below!

Daniel Goldstein

The Battle Between Your Present And Future Self

In a previous article, we talked about commitment devices and how they can help achieve hard to reach goals and make us commit to a defined behavior course. Aware of the importance of commitment devices, conferences have been held to discuss this aspect. Daniel Goldstein “The battle between your present and future self” conference is one of many. Daniel is a fun to listen speaker and uses easy to understand approaches to enable to understand the complicated dimensions of the commitment device.

The story of Odysseus and the Sirens

First he introduces the story of Odysseus and the Sirens from high school or junior high school. Where there was this hero, Odysseus, who’s heading back home after the Trojan War and he says: he’s standing on the deck of his ship, he’s talking to his first mate, and he’s saying, "Tomorrow, we will sail past those rocks, and on those rocks sit some beautiful women called Sirens. And these women sing an enchanting song, a song so alluring that all sailors who hear it crash into the rocks and die." Now you would expect, given that that they would choose an alternate route around the Sirens, but instead Odysseus says, "I want to hear that song. And so what I’m going to do is I’m going to pour wax in the ears of you and all the men — stay with me — so that you can’t hear the song, and then I’m going to have you tie me to the mast so that I can listen and we can all sail by unaffected." So this is a captain putting the life of every single person on the ship at risk so that he can hear a song.

And I’d like to think if this was the case, they probably would have rehearsed it a few times. Odysseus would have said, "Okay, let’s do a dry run. You tie me to the mast, and I’m going to beg and plead. And no matter what I say, you cannot untie me from the mast. All right, so tie me to the mast." And the first mate takes a rope and ties Odysseus to the mast in a nice knot. And Odysseus does his best job playacting and says, "Untie me. Untie me. I want to hear that song. Untie me." And the first mate wisely resists and doesn’t untie Odysseus. And then Odysseus says, "I see that you can get it. All right, untie me now and we’ll get some dinner." And the first mate hesitates. He’s like, "Is this still the rehearsal, or should I untie him?" And the first mate thinks, "Well, I guess at some point the rehearsal has to end." So he unties Odysseus, and Odysseus flips out. He’s like, "You idiot. You moron. If you do that tomorrow, I’ll be dead, you’ll be dead, every single one of the men will be dead. Now just don’t untie me no matter what." He throws the first mate to the ground. This repeats itself through the night — rehearsal, tying to the mast, conning his way out of it, beating the poor first mate up mercilessly. Hilarity ensues.

What psychologists call a commitment device?

Tying yourself to a mast is perhaps the oldest written example of what psychologists call a commitment device. A commitment device is a decision that you make with a cool head to bind yourself so that you don’t do something regrettable when you have a hot head. Because there’s two heads inside one person when you think about it. Scholars have long invoked this metaphor of two selves when it comes to questions of temptation. There is first, the present self. This is like Odysseus when he’s hearing the song. He just wants to get to the front row. He just thinks about the here and now and the immediate gratification. But then there’s this other self, the future self. This is Odysseus as an old man who wants nothing more than to retire in a sunny villa with his wife Penelope outside of Ithaca — the other one.

So why do we need commitment devices?

Well resisting temptation is hard, as the 19th century English economist Nassau William Senior said, "To abstain from the enjoyment which is in our power, or to seek distant rather than immediate results, are among the most painful exertions of the human will." If you set goals for yourself and you’re like a lot of other people, you probably realize it’s not that your goals are physically impossible that’s keeping you from achieving them, it’s that you lack the self-discipline to stick to them. It’s physically possible to lose weight. It’s physically possible to exercise more. But resisting temptation is hard.

The other reason that it’s difficult to resist temptation is because it’s an unequal battle between the present self and the future self. I mean, let’s face it, the present self is present. It’s in control. It’s in power right now. It has these strong, heroic arms that can lift doughnuts into your mouth. And the future self is not even around. It’s off in the future. It’s weak. It doesn’t even have a lawyer present. There’s nobody to stick up for the future self. And so the present self can trounce all over its dreams. So there’s this battle between the two selves that’s being fought, and we need commitment devices to level the playing field between the two.

He also describes the method he uses as commitment devices on himself: Now I’m a big fan of commitment devices actually. Tying yourself to the mast is the oldest one, but there are other ones such as locking a credit card away with a key or not bringing junk food into the house so you won’t eat it or unplugging your Internet connection so you can use your computer. I was creating commitment devices of my own long before I knew what they were. So when I was a starving post-doc at Columbia University, I was deep in a publish-or-perish phase of my career. I had to write five pages a day towards papers or I would have to give up five dollars.

And when you try to execute these commitment devices, you realize the devil is really in the details. Because it’s not that easy to get rid of five dollars. I mean, you can’t burn it; that’s illegal. And I thought, well I could give it to a charity or give it to my wife or something like that. But then I thought, oh, I’m sending myself mixed messages. Because not writing is bad, but giving to charity is good. So then I would kind of justify not writing by giving a gift. And then I kind of flipped that around and thought, well I could give it to the neo-Nazis. But then I was like, that’s worse and writing is good, and so that wouldn’t work. So ultimately, I just decided I would leave it in an envelope on the subway. Sometimes a good person would find it, sometimes a bad person would find it. On average, it was just a completely pointless exchange of money that I would regret. Such it is with commitment devices.

That was a short segment from the aspiring conference of Daniel. If you want to know what happened next and get advices of how exactly commitment devices work, watch the video below.

Kony 2012 Stop At Nothing

Celebrities like Justin Bieber, Emma Stone, Lady Gaga and Diddy have joined the viral campaign group "Invisible Children" to publicize Joseph Kony, a wanted war criminal.

If the name of Joseph Kony tells you nothing, you say that this is a matter of time, since several events are set in motion to put the spotlight this war criminal, but especially for him to finally grapple above.

In summary, Joseph Kony, the rebel leader of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) which is active between Uganda and Sudan, is being sought around the world. An arrest warrant against him raged since 2005, but one that gathers crimes against humanity (rape, abduction of children as soldiers, looting, sexual slavery, murder, etc..) Is still at large. This story is true; unfortunately it’s not a movie script.

It’s true that the campaign has begun in 2005, but the true beginning and pre-publicized phase has begun in 2003 in Uganda. The man who started all of this is called Jason Russell who travelled to Uganda in 2003 to make a documentary about the suffering happening there. People were suffering from hunger and danger all together. They can’t sleep at night because of the fear of getting abducted and are on a constant run. Who are they running from? And who wants to abduct them and why? It’s Joseph Kony. As I mentioned earlier, he is a rebel leader who kidnaps children; he gives the boys guns, makes them join his children army, makes them kill THEIR OWN parents and torture other people. As of the girls, they get raped and engaged into prostitution and sex slavery. As of now, 30.000 child have been abducted.

What made Jason take action is his meeting with a Ugandan boy called Jacob. They met him when he was running away from Kony’s army which he was forced to join. They took him with them and asked him to tell them his story. He said that he was abducted by the rebels along with his brother. His brother tried to escape but he was killed in his attempt in front of Jacob eyes, his neck was chopped. Jacob was so desperate that he told them that he wishes to be rather dead than live in this world and that he wants to meet his brother in heaven, he then started crying. The expedition crew were so touched and moved by Jacob’s story and it was then when Jason made the promise: “we are going to do all that we can to stop them”.

Jason fought for over 9 years to raise awareness among people about the events going on in Uganda. The idea he tries to deliver is that this is not Jacobs or any Ugandan’s citizen problem only, this concerns our entire humanity, just imagine that your own children were abducted and forced into slavery. How would you feel?

Many people have joined the cause over the past years and have helped with their time, efforts and money. The money was used to build schools and open jobs for thousands of people in Uganda and give them a new hope in life. The efforts grew more serious and reached the white house. They have talked with senators, governors and everyone they could reach within the US government. The campaign supporters have constantly phoned and sent letters to their states representative requesting the arrest of Kony. After thousands and thousands of letters and phone calls, Barack Obama responded. He agreed to send 100 US troopers to help train and support the Ugandan army to prepare them to capture and face Kony. This was a huge leap since the initial response of the White House when they were first contacted was that the American government won’t get involved in a matter that doesn’t concern its direct security or welfare.

But as we all know, people tend to forget, and that’s why you need to remind ad urge them to action constantly.

And forgetting in this case means that those troopers are going to be sent home and the case abandoned. We can’t afford that, not after all what we’ve done! So a campaign group "Invisible Children" was launched. A video explaining the horrible situation has been online since the 5th of March and has been consulted more than 40 million times on Youtube alone (as of now).

To help publicize Joseph Kony, many celebrities are taking advantage of the accessibility of social media tools to make Joseph Kony, a viral phenomenon.

Justin Bieber, Nicki Minaj, Emma Stone, Lauren Conrad, Ashley Tisdale, Chloe Moretz Kim Kardashian, Lady Gaga, Taylor Swift, Rihanna, Angelina Jolie, Oprah Winfrey, George Clooney, Jay-Z, Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Ryan Seacrest, Ellen DeGeneres and several other celebrities, from different backgrounds, have followed suit in recent hours.

For example, Diddy wrote on Twitter: "Dear Joseph Kony, I will help make you famous. We will stop YOU #StopKONY. All my six million subscribers "re-tweet" this message please. "

Results appeared quickly and efficiently, because the name of Joseph Kony, identified as #STOPKONY #KONY2012 is now among the top of ("hashtags") hot topics around the world.

Here is the controversial “KONY 2012” video, please watch it, it is worth every second.

Want to take action? Visit the official website of "Invisible Children" or their Facebook page or Twitter.

The internet has witnessed a major outrage and protests during the last month, January 2012. As netizens (internet citizens) have described it; the internet as we know it will no longer exist. And today, we’re talking about the causes of this outrage: SOPA , the Stop Online Piracy Act.

http://youtu.be/NXhIktkK78s

SOPA was proposed by a Texas Republican called Lamar Smith (who shortly became the most hated man on the internet) in the House of Representatives in October 2011. Frankly speaking, SOPA was hugely backed up by the American film and music industry as they are claiming the loss of billions of dollars due to illegal content sharing and distribution performed by file sharing websites such as Megaupload, Rapidshare, Fileserve…, torrent websites such as ThePirateBay, Sumotorrent, Torrentjunky… and other types of websites such as forums and social networks… the internet community response to this claim was sharing a photo of the famous American rapper Lil’ Wayne sitting on the top of a money mountain wearing gold chains and designer labeled clothes along with a sarcastic caption “guys! You make the artists poor when you share their music for free!”

If SOPA went through, their prosecutors are to withhold the right to shut down any website accused of copyright violation. Megaupload, the famous file sharing website was the first victim of SOPA as it was shut down and had its owners put under arrest. The owner of the company, Kim Schmitz, is facing an up to 20 years jail sentence. Therefore, “rogue” websites are to be banned from any activity; Google won’t have the right to reference them or let them subscribe to their AdSense/Adword services. Also PayPal and eBay in addition to other services wouldn’t have the right to pay them money or advertise for them.

Anonymous’s reaction to SOPA

As I mentioned earlier, there was a major outrage among netizens against this act, but American companies as well have witnessed the same effects. At first, companies such as Nintendo, Electronic Arts and Sony have supported SOPA since they were also damaged by the act of piracy, but ass they’ve seen the reactions of their fans and public, they backed away and withdrew their support. This was the first blow to SOPA’s guts. Another blow was the threat of a total internet “blackout” that was initiated by a group of hackers called “Anonymous” who gained a massive popularity during the last year after their threat of hacking Facebook (but that’s another topic) then followed by Wikipedia’s voluntary 24 hours blackout. Wikipedia wanted to make people understand how it is going to be if SOPA went through and if Wikipedia has to shut down for real.

SOPA is DEAD

Fortunately, Wikipedia’s attempt has hit the spot and people, especially students, freaked out and launched into major protests, petitions signing and calling and flooding elected officials with emails asking them to oppose SOPA. What made the protester’s position stronger was president Obama’s refusal to support SOPA. Taking Obama’s objection as a finishing blow, Lamar Smith has withdrawn his controversial law project on the 13th of January 2012 only to announce 4 days later that he will come up with a “friendlier” version which later is going to be known as ACTA, but that’s another storyJ.

How to make your youtube video viral

Hello again YouTubers!! I know that you are roaming the YouTube site the whole day trying to promote for your YouTube Video and make it more viral, that’s why today I am going to review this video that talks exactly about this issue. This Video is actually a Manual that shows how to easy share your youtube videos on most important Social Media to  How to make your YouTube Videos more VIRAL presented by Dereck Celis.

This 6 minutes video can be summarized in 10 main points from which i can cite:

1. The first thing that you have to do is to keep your videos short, around 2-4 minutes are extremely enough, because if the video is being too long, people will get tired and bored and will automatically turn it off. Then the key is to be concise and precise.
2. You don’t need to hire a professional to shoot your video for you. Just shoot it by yourself wih a regular camera, but that doesn’t mean that you can film with a very low quality one because if watchers find a low resolution video they automatically lose interest.
3. Write a precise and short description to your video on YouTube and make it clear and interesting. You are advised to use keywords that people searching for videos related to them, will find your video easily.
4. If you have a Facebook page or a twitter, share your video whenever it is possible so that your friends will know about it. You are advised too to create links to your videos from your pages so that will make it easier to people to follow and watch, this step is really important.
5. Another smart thing to do too is when commenting on other bloggers posts and video, include a link to your video, it should bring more attention to it.
6. Another thing you should be doing is to keep your video simple so that other people can modify and remix it… and that way it will naturally become viral.
7. Don’t make ad videos, because people don’t have a big interest in those unless they extremely amazing.
8. Keep the title mysterious and shocking; you can make a title that expresses the video’s content in a twisted way.
9. The use of fake headlines will attract more viewer as they will be more curious if whether this actually happened or not.
10. And Last but not least, the use of some attractive girls in your videos is 100% guaranteed method to attract views (mainly boys)

And Thanks to Dereck Celis, visit his YouTube Channel here for more videos, Now we are able to make our videos more viral and famous! And now Happy YouTubing and here is the video!

Barriers stop people to become leaders

Along the interview Sarah Green the interviewer has asked Anne Morris many questions like:

• You mentioned in your article that there are 5 ways that leaders get in our way, what are these 5 ways?: Anne says that her and the two people who wrote the article along with her met socially and they found their selves on this topic which is how can you take off the barriers towards leadership and they agreed to write this articles about this amazing pattern that can be found  across all the countries, stages of development, sectors,…  and how there are people with amazing abilities but these barriers that were put in front of them holds them back from achieving the desired results. Then she explains the messages in the article:

1. Basic massage of the article: which tries to tell  that leadership isn’t about oneself, It’s about making other people better as a result from your presence by making the system and the culture are in place and that the methods that are used by you are the best in order to lead the population toward success and development. Leadership is not at all about charisma and it is well-known that changing the fact of just thinking about oneself and replacing it with thinking about other people.
2. Second message: acting like a leader gets in the way of leading which can only give you narrow choices of tools you can use to influence other people, just pretending is not enough because gets in the ways of moving outside the place where you feel most comfortable and makes your thinking and reasoning limited to the image that you want people to see you with. And your need to look smart will get in the way of learning or taking risks which will make you fall in the pit of repeating the same mistakes that will consequently get in the way of approaching regularly to right decision making. Just like when many people have chosen to make a public images early in their career and that what was in their way to leadership.

• The part where you talked about turning competitors into enemies, what did you mean?: Anne says turning competitors into enemies or generally speaking by turning others into characters you become a character your self: you make people wrong and distort their image just to make your day and keep your mental health … and that’s not the best version of you but the best one is that people are willing to be guided by.

And along the interview Anne discusses many points of her articles, watch the video to find out.

And thanks to Ms. Anne Morris (know more about her here) and the article she wrote we are one step closer to figure some solutions about our governments and the way to improve them, and now check out the video that i highly recommend.

Tell to win

Hello video fans! Today i am going to review another inspirational video, well to be precise they are two; which their main concept talking about how to establish an emotional connection with any audience.

This is actually an interview between Sarah Green and Peter Guber, chairman and CEO of the Mandalay Entertainment Group, writer of the article called “The Fortunes Of A Story Teller” and the book “Tell To Win”.

Let’s begin with the first video which seems the most interesting one, as Sarrah asked him about :

• How did story telling have an impact on your career?:
  actually he didn’t answer directly but says that story telling can happen every day when you tell a joke or tell about your life experience. He also explains how most people enter the framework trying to control the customer but it’s not like that, you must motivate yourself and try to convince them and motivate them to buy your product with a cool story telling process , if you don’t do that customer will not get interested in you and won’t buy anything.
  As the customer don’t want to be treated as an object, as a wallet full of money that all your goals revolves about emptying that wallet into your pocket… the customer wants from the buyer to be friendly with him and motivate him to buy something he need. You should treat customers as “audience” and you have to have interest in that audience you are speaking to, so they can understand what you want to offer them.
  You shouldn’t motivate anybody, people don’t want someone to control them, all you need to do is to motivate yourself and figure out the best way that should be employed in order to deliver your thoughts to your “audience”. And that automatically implies that every story has a goal, buy my product or join my club, etc… unless you will not be able to send the clear picture to the person you want to make business with.And he finally ended this section by saying that the best way to tell a story is being an active listener, you should try to make an emotional  component unbounded with the information making it memorable along with searching and tipping points, just begin by recognizing anyone of them  can be important and once ou see the value proposition engage the rest.
• What will you do if after the prepations for your story, the audiance won’t react? He said that as a speaker you  must drop the script and be who you are and be spontaneous when you do that your charisma shows and you become real and convincing.When telling a story you must be authentic and original and emotionally deliveer the story to your listener.  Watch The Full Video Here:
  Watch this video on YouTube.

Coming to talk about the second video it was so brief, and he interviewed by Mark Thompson, and the main points were:

• Sometimes he failed to tell a story or when he got moved he got moved by the right story.
• In the past everything was all narrative and telling that story telling is the nature of the human. Watch The Full Video Here:
  Watch this video on YouTube.

And after watching these two videos we should really say thanks to Mr. Peter Guber find out about all his achivements and career here we have a best idea on how to deliver a story to our audience and never be dull again.

The Providence Paradox Interview

Welcome in another video review about the “Providence Paradox”! Today’s video is pretty interesting as it is represents an interview between Scott Bernardo (the interviewer) and Rohit Deshpandé, Harvard Business School professor where the last describes ways that emerging market
companies can overcome consumer bias against their products.

Mr. Rohit Deshpandé explains how is The Providence Paradox is a relatively new term in the business world.
It refers to products and services manufactured by developing countries that have a difficult time establishing a profit margin due to where they
are from. On the one hand consumers want authenticity, but on the other, they do not feel like paying a high price for a ‘third world’ product, generally by answering the following questions:

• Can you explain to us what the business paradox is? Mr. Deshpandé answers this question saying that the providence paradox is meant to emerge markets and to simplify the ways the marketers of the products to manufacture them and give them a chance to provide their products with a fair price without looking at the place they come from. He also discuses the problems that 3^rd worlds marketers can face while selling their products since people won’t buy their products with a high price even if it is a high qualtity merchandise.
• Can we take the examples of the chocolat from a developing country and wine from Chilli: He gives us an example : Vinziuala chocolate company; this company produces the best cocoa in the world and the finest but they cant get themselves well known and they can’t command a good price as people know the product is good but they are not willing to pay a good price for it. Specific example wine producing company it produces wide range of quality wines some of them very high and some are low ,this company offers wine that is rated by 90% which allows them to sell the  one bottle with 300$ but in reality they can’t command a price over 49$ because the distributor’s tell them that no one in his stores will pay more than 50$ for a bottle of wine coming from Chilly.
• Shall we talk about some strategies within the Providence Paradox: Mr. Deshpandé Talks about how the lG electronics (formerly known as luck gold star) established their own name in the marketing world. And how Honda and Toyota entered back in the 1970 in the  u.s market , they didn’t do very well at that time and people laughed at these product and it took Toyota from 20 to 30 years to establish their name. It takes lots of time and money if you real small company to establish your own product or in a developing country. Then he explains the process of taking short cuts instead of beginning a company from the scratch like acquiring a company which is already out there i.e.Volvo that was acquired by ford but it got sold to a Chinese company.

And thanks to this great Professor Rohit Deshpandé who is Sebastian S. Kresge Professor of Marketing at Harvard Business School where he currently teaches in the Owner/President Management Program and in other executive education offerings, learn more about him who was able to deliver a good explanation to the providence Paradox and has made it closer to our understanding. Thanks for reading and i will leave you with the interviaw now:

Social media and journalism today

The video that I am going to review this time talks about the social media had a big influence and impact on the journalism nowadays and how could back it up and help spread the word and the information all together.

This video is an interview that was made between a woman called Sebath (the interviewer) and Julia from the International University in Geneva (the interviewed).

This was actually made as a class assignment on “Video For Business Communication” which is delivered by Victor Planas-Bielsa, professor at the International University in Geneva, and founder and Producer at Art’n Visual Production.

In this video there were two main points that were discussed:

• How can social media impact journalism?:
  Julia’s answer for this question by saying  that that social media has a great impact on the journalism and even changed its methods and the way it is introduced, as we see, people who read newspaper has decreased too much but in the other hand people who surf on the internet has dramatically increased and that what would help the journalism reach out for them and spread the word and the news. Also the social media has a big influence on the writer- reader relationship, it help the writer deliver his information in a more reader friendly way like including videos, photo, audio… which is not possible in newspaper and magazines, and that is also possible is the writer is using facebook or twitter to communicate with his reader this would bring them even closer that before indeed. Moreover,  the writer has more options to write now because I said earlier he can integrate many methods is order to deliver his message… and because of the social media, writers are getting contribution from regular people who fell in love with the journalism combined with the social media techniques.
• Is the Social Media a Short Trend?
  Julia response was that it is the exact opposite as the game has been changed as the use of the blogs and twitter in supporting the revolutions In Tunisia, Egypt and Libya… and how the information has been delivered despite of keeping the reporters out of the country and arresting them and how all the population have become journalists and kept updating the situations in their country on their facebooks and twitter,etc which greatly helped the succes of their revolution. The informations is still flowing and continues thanks to the social media… The future of content is conversion and the flow of information is going to be much more fluid. Actually offers a good future for the news paper industry and democracy in the whole world.

And thanks to Miss Julia from Geneva we were able to have an idea about how the social media is greatly impacting our lives and the way we treat the information and you can visit the International University in Geneva Official website, follow this link:
International University in Geneva and now i shall leave you with the video.

Patrick Chappatte Cartoon - The Internet has changed music

In this article I am going to talk about the Power of Cartoon and how far It can impact our lives and relationships. In my researches I found an article that exactly talks about this sensible case put up in a divertissement way.

This short video is a one man show presented by Patrick Chappatte. He is generally speaking about how cartoon is involved in politics and war, and what are the conflicts resulted from mal-uses of this powerful tool. He also discusses how the pencil can illuminate serious issues and bring the most unlikely people together in a humorous context using comedy to get closer to the public’s hearts and be able to deliver his message to them.

Patrick Chappate has talked about serious global issues that have been the concern of our modern world for years now,  for example he talked about:

• How the print media is dying because of the technological development, everyone is heading towards the Internet to find the information and Facebook and twitter are the first suspects in this case if you want my opinion.
• How the world has gotten smaller because of technology and he even said that the world has become flat now due to the spread of technology, you all have foreign friends don’t you? That’s all because of the internet. Back in the early days, the only way for you to make foreign friends was to travel to other countries.
• How the internet has empowered everybody: the worker, the student… just everybody even spies… there are many people are thrown in jail because of what they’ve written in their personal blogs, etc. I am just saying.
• How did the internet changed the way of employment and how will bosses will look at their employee (beware of your facebook profile) and mentioning that this technology thing made people attached, well slaves is the word, for the internet and how they cannot advance without it.
• How internet made us think that it simplified out tasks and made them very easy to do, but in reality and after thoroughly thinking you will discover that those tasks are ones that you never had to do before, like “updating your twitter?” why do you even want to let strange people who don’t even know you, notified about where are you going or what are you doing? Believe me they don’t a crap.
• How cartoon has been involved in religious and political conflicts; just like what happened when they drew the prophet and how that caused violence and blood to be spilled along with saying that there are people are getting benefits from that: that is the typical mal-use of the cartoon.
• How did he use cartoon to reunite people from different sides while his missions in the Ivory Coast, Lebanon and Kenia.

These were the main points that Patrick Cappatte talked about, I think you might need to check the video to have a closer look and laugh along with him, check it out:

And thanks to Mr. “Patrick Chappatte” and for people who don’t know him I should say that he is a cartoonist and for whom is curious about his background I should say he is a Lebasnes-Swiss man who is well know for drawing cartoons for the “Le Temps” , “Neue Zürcher Zeitung” and the “International Herald Tribune” newspapers, he is actually a pretty cool guy as he is from a Lebanese mother, Swiss father, born in Karchi, lived in Singapore and Switzerland… a global guy to resume. And I said thanks to him we are now aware about the power of cartoon and how it could be a double edged arm. For more information about this guy you can follow him on twitter http://twitter.com/globecartoon or visit his website http://www.globecartoon.com/.

Thanks for reading!