Russell Davies

casual work in the knowledge economy

Man about town and gentleman entrepreneur Alex West (pictured above at a coffee morning, he won't be happy I've used this picture again) is looking for help with stuff. It sounds interesting and it's potentially cash for doing what you're doing anyway.

This is what he says:

"We are setting up a free monthly newsletter which will include a gallery of the very best non-traditional forms of branded communication (i.e. everything but print, TV, banners and pop-ups). So we want to set up an informal network of 'scouts' in as many countries as possible who when they see a great piece of work they will send it to us (as a link, as a photo, as a QuickTime etc.) with any details they can find out about it. We will then edit the selection and ask a guest editor - and scouts may be asked to be guest editors we don't just want BIg names - and if we use the work that a particular scout sent in they get $100.00 and a credit for finding the work. Really proactive scouts will be asked, and paid, to do more work such as country features, insights etc."

If you're interested (and why wouldn't you be) contact him, not me: alex at remotepeople.net

Also, we're looking for a few good folk in Europe who can answer a couple of quick questions for us. But you need to answer them on video. Ideally with a little bit of imagination - not just talking straight to camera. And you need to do it in the next couple of weeks. We can pay you a little bit for that. Anyone interested? Get in touch with me; russell at openintelligenceagency.com

thankyou for your kind attention.

plannr.net

Some things have come together. I registered plannr.net a while ago as a sort of 2.0 joke, not sure what to do with it. And Alex P built Web2.0 logo creator. And lots of the people on the list of 'all the planners' were slightly floored by the number of extra blogs they might 'have' to read. So I added another thing to my ziki, pointed plannr.net at it and added all the feeds for everyone on the list. So, assuming it works, you can go to one place and see the latest stuff that any of those 100 plus planners has written. Or you can subscribe to the whole thing here. Let me know if it seems useful or not. (And if you want to be removed, let me know.)

Add: hmm. The ziki doesn't seem to be working right now. I'll try and work out what's up. And the subscription link about needs to be right-clicked and pasted into a feedreader. You can't just click on it.

all the planners

I love the fact that planners seem to be very blog-friendly. We read them. We write them. Quite a lot of us are quite good at them.

So I think we should try and create as definitive a list as possible of every planner with a blog. It'll be an interesting, and never-ending, process. And once we've got the list I think we'll be able to start making some trite and obvious generalisations about the profession. Which is always nice.

I've got my own list which I'll start adding as a linklist on here (it's on the right, scroll down), but if you know of a planner with a blog, you are a planner with a blog, or you can think of other useful conjunctions of the words 'planner' and 'blog' then please comment below and we'll add it in.

And, because I think planning should be a broad church, anyone who wants to be considered a planner is a planner. You want to be in; you're in.

Hurrah - another late night departure to a pointless but intriguing destination.

(Oh, and obviously, if I've stuck you on the list, and you'd rather not be lumped in with us feckless egomaniacs, let me know and I'll take you off. I've stuck some people on who I think of doing very plannerlike things, but they might not have ever thought of themselves as planners.)