I am very pleased that the Royal Society of Medicine has chosen my presentation at the innovations event as their ‘Lecture of the Week’. Click here to view it on the RSM website.
Royal Society of Medicine presentation now live
4 March 2011 By Leave a Comment
For those of you who were unable to make the ColaLife presentation at the Royal Society of Medicine last Thursday (24/2/11), you can now watch the presentation here. This has been very cleverly put together by the guys at Inclusive Digital TV who have synchronised the video with the slides in a very effective way.
A big thank you to supporters Lisa ter Haar (onlyconnectcommunication) and Paul Summerfield (RSM) who were instrumental in making this happen and to the Royal Society for inviting me. It was a real honour to be there. At this point in the ColaLife project, credibility is crucial and this will have helped us a great deal in this regard.
The Royal Society of Medicine | the exit conversation
26 February 2011 By Leave a Comment
This is just a quick post to put everybody’s mind at rest. Despite the anxiety going into the Royal Society of Medicine last night (24/2/11) to deliver a presentation of ColaLife – it seemed to go quite well and I got lots of really good questions and made some great contacts. As tends to happen on these occasions, David Wilcox was there with his iPhone to capture the mood afterwards in this sort video. Thanks again David.
Thanks to all those who came and made offers to help. I will be following up over the next few days.
ColaLife Presentation | TEDx Berlin
7 December 2010 By 3 Comments
Thanks to the good people of red onion who hosted TEDx Berlin for the invitation to speak and for allowing me to open the 1000th TEDx event. It was a great, if nerve-wracking, honour.
TEDx Youth Berlin | 14 November 2010
15 November 2010 By Leave a Comment
This is quick post to publish the flip video of my presentation of ColaLife at TEDx Youth Berlin yesterday (14/11/10). Thanks go to Dr Joana Breidenbach who did the filming. Joana is the founder of betterplace.org. Today is the big day with a presentation to the main TEDx Berlin event. The event is sold out with an audience of 400+ with 200 on the waiting list! I think it’s being streamed live here tedxberlin.de.
ColaLife at TEDx Youth Berlin | 14 November 2010 from ColaLife on Vimeo.
The starting point for the ColaLife Pilot
9 November 2010 By 4 Comments
This diagram gives an overview of the outcome of our discussions with stakeholders in Zambia. This is the starting point for the development of a plan for a pilot of the ColaLife concept in Zambia. No doubt things will change as we work together on this. This diagram is a lot to take in so I’ve done a slidecast which builds the diagrame up step by step and explains each stage. To watch this and listen to the explanation just click on the Play Button below.
ColaLife presentation | Wieden + Kennedy | Canvas8
23 July 2010 By 2 Comments
Thanks to the good people at Canvas8, here is a video of the ColaLife presentation given at the Wieden + Kennedy (Coca-Cola’s Advertising Agency) premises at Brick Lane on 23/6/10.
There are two elements of the presentation that do not come over in the video:
- The Commitment from Coca-Cola to ‘trial the ideas behind ColaLife’
- The AidPod animation
Both of these are given here:
1. The Commitment from Coca-Cola to ‘trial the ideas behind ColaLife’ (ignore the first 45 seconds):
Coca-Cola’s commitment to ColaLife | 25 04 2009 | EXTRACT by colalife
2. The AidPod animation:
ColaLife FAQs Live!
30 June 2010 By 3 Comments
Back in February 2010, ColaLife supporter, Lisa ter Haar of onlyconnectcommunication contacted me. She’d mentioned ColaLife in a lecture to her students at the Hult International Business School and they’d had lots and lots of questions. So Lisa invited me in for a question and answer session the following week (1/3/10). When I got the invitation I was delighted and started to think how we might make the session more interesting and capture the content so that others could benefit.
I immediately called my friend, David Wilcox (socialreporter.com) to ask if he would help film the occasion. But we went further than that and gave Flip video cameras to the students too. This produced hours of footage from four cameras and it was at this point that Alex Brenig-Jones of studiomagicsolutions.com stepped in and offered to edit the footage free of charge. So this is a truly collaborative effort and thanks go to all those involved (especially Alex – the editing was a significant amount of work!).
Above is a video playlist of all the questions and below is a grid to allow direct access to each one. As you will be able to see, this was a totally unrehearsed session and I had no previous knowledge of the questions.
Key to all of the questions:
| FAQ1: How will the ColaLife AidPods get into the Coca-Cola distribution system? | FAQ2: How did ColaLife get Coca-Cola’s attention? | FAQ3: Will the AidPods be disposable? |
| FAQ4: Who needs to be involved locally? | FAQ5: Where do Coca-Cola’s responsibilities begin and end? | FAQ6: Which other organisations are a part of ColaLife? |
| FAQ7: What is ColaLife’s role in training and capacity building of public health workers? | FAQ8: How will ColaLife be funded? | FAQ9: How will ColaLife work with others? |
I will be using this material to liven up the ColaLife FAQ page.
Still chance to book to hear the latest on ColaLife
22 June 2010 By Leave a Comment
I will be one of two speakers at an event organised by Canvas8 and hosted at the swanky premises of Wieden + Kennedy, the famous advertising agency in London, UK. You can see more details and book here. The event’s on 23 June (Weds) and starts at 6:30pm. See you there?
Event invitation – hear the latest on ColaLife
8 June 2010 By Leave a Comment
Here’s a chance to hear the latest on ColaLife for those based in London. I will be one of two speakers at an event organised by Canvas8 and hosted but Wieden + Kennedy, the famous advertising agency. You can see more details and book here. The event’s on 23 June and starts at 6:30pm. See you there?
