Jen Storey
Jen freely admits that she's been doing this digital thing for a very long time (far too long to type the number out loud). She has worked in startups, ASX listed companies and had a dabble in agencyland. Jen is the CMO and Practice Lead of Melbourne-based a boutique innovation consultancy. She is the Co-Founder of Interactive Minds, the digital networking and thought leadership event in Queensland. Jen joined Anthill as Editor in February 2012. If you want to contact Jen, connect with her on LinkedIn or friend her here.
Seven minutes of terror. How to land a rover on Mars [VIDEO]
It takes a special kind of crazy to want to explore space. It also takes a special kind of engineering and entrepreneurial team. NASA's Curiosity rover is heading to Mars. It's due to land on the surface on August 5. Well, that's the intention. The thing is, there are so many things that have to happen to make this landing possible. And, the margin for error is zero. There is no wiggle room, at all.
User centred design: why you need to think like a cat [VIDEO]
The fundamentals of customer based design (CBD) is that you must think like your customers. You must view the world from their perspective, in order to understand it, and solve the problems of your customers. So, if your customers happen to be a cat, this video is for you.
Pssst … want to know the essential secrets of giving a great presentation? [VIDEO]
Actor George Jessel once quipped that, "The human brain starts working the moment you are born and never stops until you stand up to speak in public.” There are some key things to consider when presenting to anyone, be it five people at a pitch for capital or 1,000 people at a TED event. In this video, Dr. Susan Weinschenk reveals the top five things every presenter should know.
First contact: what entrepreneurs can learn from a visit to an Emergency Room
Without meaning to, the team at Anthill has been testing the Victoria hospital system over the past month. Between us, we have clocked up four visits to the emergency rooms of various Melbourne hospitals, in the past few weeks. And, as good entrepreneurial types, now that these moments have passed, we’re stepping back and thinking about what we saw and experienced.
Can music change your reading habits? A creative solution comes out of Cannes [VIDEO]
Each year at the Cannes Lions, a creativity competition is held, to let up-coming agency creatives to solve a problem with a creative solution. This year, two budding creatives had an idea about how to encourage the reading of books by using Spotify. Creative, fun and it just might work!
What's your story? It's time to start telling it now [VIDEO]
So, what's your story? Oh yes, it's hilarious when people ask me that, in an attempt to make a play on my surname. No one has ever done that before. Ever. But really, what is your story? David E. Kelley has some simple, yet profound advice.
Pure awesome: the honest and surprising facts about coffee [VIDEO]
Some of us drink coffee. Some of us drink more coffee than others. Some of us need coffee. So, it's not really surprising to know that globally, we consume 300 tons of caffeine a day. Yes, a day.
Fact: Your wicked, smart idea is not original [VIDEO]
It is often believed that creative ideas come in a moment of inspiration to a genius mind. Piffle says Kirby Ferguson. He goes on to explain how all creativity begins with copying what has come before. Evolution must happen on the way to a revolution.
Social media meets real world with a Twitter activated vending machine [VIDEO]
Look past the creepy, robotic voice of the vending machine. It's really creepy. This integrated promotional campaign for ice tea manages to achieve real life and online brand awareness at the same time. Clever, huh?
People caught being accidentally awesome. Coke does it again [VIDEO]
Yes. Another Coke ad. Sure, they have bazillion dollar budgets. When many people study marketing at University, they dream that one day they'll work for a company like Coke or Nike, simply because of the awesome marketing that comes out of these behemoths.
So, you reckon you’re a good decision maker. What makes you think that? [VIDEO]
Every day we get up, clamber out of bed, and make decisions. We decide whether we'll wear Calvin Kleins or Bonds undies. We choose a Batman t-shirt over a Green Lantern or Wonder Woman one. But really, are we really making a cognitive choice?
Old Spice guy makes a cameo in latest viral ad [VIDEO]
Whoever thought that a little bit of hand waving from a girl in tank top could cause so much havoc. Clocking more than 10 million views in the past three weeks, this ad for the Samsung Smart TV looks set to become one of the big viral ads for this year.
Digital culture isn't an oxymoron. Or is it? [VIDEO]
Jonathan Harris is both an artist and a computer scientist. That must mean that both hemispheres of his brain are firing on full cylinders. In this video, Harris shares what he has discovered in his work to be the four big cultural trends brought to us by the likes of Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest: Compression, Disposability, Curation, and Self-Promotion.
Organised complexity. It may sound like how you arrange your sock drawer, but it’s...
So, you already know that everything is connected to everything else, right? Now, be prepared to look at just how complex all of these connections are. Principal UX Lead at the search engine Bing, Manuel Lima, shows us how the tree of knowledge really no longer applies. This is why creating a site map for your website is really tricky.
Feathered entrepreneurs: the fascinating world of crows [VIDEO]
At a cocktail party, Joshua Klein got into a conversation with a friend who wanted to eradicate crows from his garden. Klein thought there had to be a better way to solve this situation than just killing the crows. Then, the magic words that so many entrepreneurs love to hear, were spoken.
Kick. Push. Grind. What do skateboarding and innovation have in common? [VIDEO]
Have you ever watched skateboarders and wondered, how did they even know that trick could be done? Rodney Mullen takes the stage at TEDxUSC to explain how context provides the opportunity to create content. It's what you already know that allows you to push beyond that, and create something new and remarkable.
Cast off your paper notebooks! Locals take iPad pen bundle to Kickstarter for funding...
Despite being surrounded by technology and gadget, when it comes to meetings, I still like to write. Granted, it's illegible to anyone else because I do spend 90% of my time typing. I dislike typing on my iPad in meetings. I find it distracts me from the meeting. Yet, I can easily write with ease. Enter Collusion, a cracking product designed by locals and now seeking Kickstarter funding.
Salty Banksy goodness: skills, method and medium [VIDEO]
Normally when we say something is a little salty at Anthill, we're referring to the use of certain, shall we say, creative words. Words that may make your mum blush; or they may not. It depends on your mum. But in this video, salt takes on a whole new meaning. It becomes the most astonishing artistic medium.
Space: it makes your feel insignificant doesn't it? [VIDEO]
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mindbogglingly big it is. You might think it's a long way down to the chemist, but that's just peanuts compared to space. And oddly, peanuts is about the same amount of funding that NASA receives to continue exploring space. Yet, without space exploration, we have no perspective on ourselves.
Waiting for the great leap forward? I think it's already here [VIDEO]
Throw away your keyboard. Discard your mouse. All you need to do to control your computer is wave your hands about. No instruction manual needed, just a teeny, tiny device that reads your hand motions. Really. The revolution in human-computer interaction just took a massive leap forward.
