We spend time thinking about ‘social networks’, and happily attend ‘networking’ events. And when we look at networks from a more academic perspective, we explore social graphs, mapping the connections between nodes. And yet, there is much more to networks. This talk makes a distinction between network infrastructure and network flows – the traffic that […]
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TEDxKrakow Talk is back again! ‘How Things Spread’
February 12, 2013 
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For some reason my talk was one of 20 or so on the TEDx YouTube channel that got removed a month ago. Fortunately the TEDx team were able to repost my video. It meant I lost a lot of views that I had the first time the video was released, but I’m just happy the […]
Continue reading1. Introducing The Spread Papers
November 27, 2012 1 Comment
How do you spread things? How do you spread ideas? How do you spread behavioral change? How do you spread products and services? The Spread Papers is a collection of papers written by Mark Turrell that describe the emergent ‘Science of Spread’. In each paper, Mark develops a concept that underpins Spread, and highlights the […]
Continue readingTedXKrakow – my script for talk on “New Lens” plus Libyan Revolution
October 18, 2012 0 Comments
[holding glass / water bottle] In 1660, a ‘crazy’ Dutch scientist called Anton van Leeuwenhoek started writing scientific papers about how he saw small things moving about in water. The man was clearly mad. Because if you look at a glass of water with the naked eye, even if you really squint, you can’t see […]
Continue readingExtreme Problem Solving & The Science of Spread – Presentation at HR Tech Europe
November 2, 2011 0 Comments
I was invited to deliver a keynote on technology and people at the HR Tech Europe event in Amsterdam. I am talking at the same time as I deliver the slides, so don’t be disappointed if you are not sure what the slides mean just by looking at them online. You’d be missing the point […]
Continue readingThe Zimbabwe Election Monitoring Project 2008
October 12, 2011 3 Comments
My first ever big ‘change the world (for better)‘ initiative was helping the MDC opposition in Zimbabwe win the 2008 elections. I have told the story many times (in person, and sometimes with a glass of wine in hand). In order to provide more detail around the story, plus some photos of what actually happened, […]
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