Maremel Institute

Four Conferences: Four Sets of Live Viewpoints

maremel — Sun, 05 May 2013 19:00:32 +0000

We’ve just come back from a series of unique conferences, each with a very different view of the world. Given our overly connected digital world, the proliferation and expansion of live events is intriguing. These were just the four we picked of the dozen or so going on during this same three week period of [...]

Blending the University at SXSWedu

Gigi Johnson — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 13:04:25 +0000

Thanks to all who attended our 9 am presentation on March 6, 2013 at SXSWedu in Austin, TX, on Blending the University. We had a full house of 125 seats plus folks tucked along the back wall. We also had a robust conversation on the question of organizational challenges with blended learning design during the [...]

Listening for Change in the Music and Publishing Businesses

maremel — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 13:28:56 +0000

February has been the month for innovation conferences on music and publishing. Last week was O’Reilly’s Tools of Change Conference (in New York with amazing food). Yesterday was Brian Zisk’s SF Music Tech Conference, and today starts Ned Sherman’s Digital Media Wire Music conference in New York. Recurring themes have been abundant start-ups facing creators [...]

Week of Publishing Change in a Season of Educational Transformation

Gigi Johnson — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 00:54:55 +0000

We’re getting busier and busier around educational technology change with many higher education organizations now. In this season of MOOCs (“massively open online courses”) and other education innovation announcements, I am focusing with many organizations on how to plan educational design with all of this output. How do we syndicate and create multiple use streams? [...]

Mixing Digital Business with Education — User Generated What?

maremel — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 12:58:50 +0000

For the past two weeks, we have been running presentations and workshops on education in the cloud and digital education in creative industries. I’ve also been going to a variety of conferences, including heading today to Billboard FutureSound in San Francisco. At last night’s event, several of us began to compare notes on all of [...]

Fox/NAMIC Digital Media Panel Exchange: “The Future of Digital Content & Distribution”

maremel — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 03:27:02 +0000

Fox is hosting with NAMIC a Digital Media event on Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012: “The Future of Digital Content & Distribution.” FOX / NAMIC — Digital Media Multi-Platform Panel Exchange: “The Future of Digital Content & Distribution” Wednesday, October 30, 2012, 6:00pm-8:25pm @ Fox Studios Lot Click here to register with NAMIC for the event [...]

5 Ways to View the Ryan Seacrest/NBC Universal Deal

maremel — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 11:05:28 +0000

A reporter from a major newspaper emailed me on Friday with three questions about the Ryan Seacrest/NBC Universal two-year, multi-platform deal. He had found me from one of my non-Maremel roles: lecturer at UCLA Anderson Graduate School of Management. (I’m off this quarter, and back in June with their summer program.) He asked about (1) [...]

Monday Panel on Digital Media 101, Digital Hollywood 2012

maremel — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 14:12:56 +0000

Join us Monday, April 30, at 10 am for our Digital Hollywood “Digital Media 101″ panel. It will feature Phil Lelyveld (USC 3D lab and private guru), Andrew Wallenstein (Variety), Jim Halkett (THQ), Ben Spergel (Ipsos), and Sam Kling (Peer Music). If you will be at Digital Hollywood or the Variety Summit, please join us! [...]

Social Listening: Cool Tools

maremel — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 20:29:24 +0000

We’re building new short-form classes here at the Maremel Institute (and join our email list to find out more about the upcoming schedule). One that so far is in high demand is on Social Listening, the arts of using social media for business intelligence not just on big trends, but also on where unique conversations [...]

Changing Tech Stories to Change Organizations

maremel — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 15:45:17 +0000

We enjoyed meeting all the people who came to our Computer Using Educators session in Palm Springs, California, last week. Our presentation, “Reframing Technology Narratives and Routines To Energize Organizational Change,” is up on Slideshare, plus embedded below. To some, this may seem VERY complex, and we are working to make much of this more [...]