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PopUp! Media made this year’s Do documentary. Thanks a...

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 09:53:10 +0000

PopUp! Media made this year’s Do documentary.

Thanks a million!

"01239 682878"

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 19:40:00 +0000

“01239 682878”

- the new DO phone number

"Dear Copenhagen, less is not a four letter word."

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 15:31:59 +0000

“Dear Copenhagen, less is not a four letter word.”

"Many of the great businesses of the next decade will be about making information about our behaviors..."

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 08:29:18 +0000

“Many of the great businesses of the next decade will be about making information about our behaviors more visible.”

- evan williams

Doers Marching

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 20:37:58 +0000

Saturday’s The Wave march in London saw an estimated 40,000 people walk from Grosvenor Square to Westminster, home of UK government. The Wave surrounded a block that covered the roads and paths between and over two bridges and both sides of the river with a line of blue-wearing and painted people committed to making their voices heard.

At the head of the march were Doers - my daughter and 2008 speaker Andy Cummins from SAS, followed a mile back by others from the last two yearsm including Liz Postlethwaite, bubbling with excitement about a new low carbon gallery project that she’s working on in Manchester, and Do Programme star Emma Metcalf.

There’s a neat video of the march at the Independent, stories at the BBC and some great images at the Guardian

The Do Lectures - "it's not like anything - you just have to trust me and taste it"

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 19:06:00 +0000

Reproduced from Seth Godin’s blog - 6.12.09

What’s it like? (The sad story of the hot pepper)

Can you imagine how difficult it was to sell the jalapeño when it came over from the new world?

“What’s it like?” you’d be asked.

Well, it’s like a pepper (of course, it wasn’t. Black pepper is dried and tastes very different).Well, it’s hot (no, it’s not. Hot is a temperature, spicy is a taste).It’s not like anything, actually. Capsicum is an experience unto itself, and forcing me to tell you what it’s like does neither of us much of a service.

“What’s it like,” is actually shorthand for, “I don’t trust you enough to just try it, so you better explain in detail what category this item fits into so I can decide in advance how to understand it.”

“What’s it like?” is a huge impediment to growth and to the spread of new ideas, because forcing a marketer to pigeonhole an idea naturally limits it. “What’s it like?” leads to sequels and high concepts and crossovers, but it doesn’t get us 1966 Bob Dylan or even yoga class.

Great marketers take advantage of categories every day. Great marketers understand how to create books or services or products or technologies are very much like something else, but better. You should do that whenever you can.

If you want a fast start and good sales, be ready to answer the question. When you have something that’s a breakthrough, though, perhaps you need to say instead, “It’s not like anything. You need to trust me and just taste it.”

So ring the Do Phone tomorrow - 07760 757633 - and sign up for a taste of something that can’t quite be described…..

"One mind at a time"

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 17:44:38 +0000

““One mind at a time””

- Interface CEO Ray Anderson on how to stimulate buy in to a sustainable revolution in a 3000 employee strong industrial company.

Hugh Macleod’s pithy and irreverent take on all things...

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 23:54:25 +0000

Hugh Macleod’s pithy and irreverent take on all things life, design and creativity, are beautifully captured in his June 2009 book “Ignore everybody….”. Stick it on your list for Santa and while you wait check out the cube grenades at gapingviod.com

DO Walking - Sand Dunes, Harlech

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 23:47:47 +0000

DO Walking - Sand Dunes, Harlech

"Don’t just stand there, Do something"

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 17:35:00 +0000

“Don’t just stand there, Do something”

- Dick Dastardly

The Do Phone will be back on Monday morning 10am. Tel:...

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 17:34:00 +0000

The Do Phone will be back on Monday morning 10am.

Tel: 07760 757633

So don’t panic. There are still some tickets left.

Do Lectures Voted Top Ten Contemporary Conferences

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 17:28:00 +0000

Do Lectures Voted Top Ten Contemporary Conferences

Walk the walk

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 01:24:00 +0000

Andy Cummins, 2008 Do Lectures speaker and uber-doer, is leading a SAS group on the Stop Climate Chaos march in London, meeting in Grosvenor Square at around 11.00. Come along to join us - keep an eye out for a bunch of Doers carrying surfboards.

rain drop x rain drop x rain drop = river

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 15:16:00 +0000

rain drop x rain drop x rain drop = river

Do one thing well. Learn your thing. Practice your...

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 14:49:20 +0000

Do one thing well.

Learn your thing.

Practice your thing.

Perfect your thing.

To be good at something will take some time.

To be great at something will take a little longer.

Put the hours in.

Talent is mostly the desire to keep practicing.

Do Phone-line open -10am

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 08:23:43 +0000

Tickets are now available for The Do Lectures 2010.

Internet Speed (Megabits per second) 1, South Korea - 11.0 2,...

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 15:05:00 +0000

Internet Speed

(Megabits per second)

1, South Korea - 11.0

2, Japan - 8.0

3, Hong Kong - 7.6

4, Sweden - 6.9

5, Romania - 6.2

6, Switzerland - 5.7

7, Netherlands - 5.4

8, Denmark - 5.1

9, Latvia - 5.1

10, Czech Republic -5.0

Keep 'em coming

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 12:25:47 +0000

10.01, Tuesday 1 December 2010

Ring ring

“Hi, this is the Do Phone”

“I want to register…..”

It’s great when plans come together.

The first calls came in thick and fast. Letters answering the Do Q are on their way to the to the Chicken Shed.

Any questions, call the Do Phone

Do Phone

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 07:54:00 +0000

There’s a black Do Phone sitting on my desk.

At 10.00 it’ll be switched on. The number is: 07760 757633

Who’ll be the first to call and say “I’m want to be at the Do Lectures in 2010. My letter’s in the post”?

We’ll be ready for you.

2010 -The Do Lectures - Sept 16th-19th

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 19:19:42 +0000

10 Questions for Attendees.

As the reputation of The Do Lectures grows around the world, our ability to fit more people into a small tent cannot grow with it. The tent holds 100 people. 80 attendees plus 20 speakers. That’s our lot. No more.

Just being able to afford a ticket shouldn’t mean you automatically get a ticket. We need to build an audience that is as interesting and motivated as the speakers. To that end, here are some things we’d like to know about you?

(Handwritten answers only)

1, Draw a doodle of yourself?

2, When did you last inspire yourself? (Don’t include the doodle)

2 What has failure taught you? What has success taught you?

3, What bugs you? What would you like to change?

4, What was the turning point in your life?

5, How do you look at the world? Is the glass half empty or is it half full?

6, What book inspired you the most? And why?

7, Who would you love to see talk at The Do Lectures?

8, What do you do for fun?

9, If you could run one of the workshops, what would you teach everyone to do?

10, If you had a motto, what would it be?

10.5, Do you snore?

Note well: If accepted, you can’t sell your ticket for a profit or otherwise

to anyone else. The ticket is not transferable. Anyone accepted will have to pay a non-refundable deposit.

A private individual ticket costs £1K. A ticket for company costs £2K.

This money is used to fund the rest of the world to see the talks for Free. Any surplus goes toward building The Do lectures into a World Class resource tool for Doers.

Letters to: The Do Lectures, The Chicken Shed, Parc Y Pratt Farm, Cardigan, West Wales, SA43 3DR.