China and South America will be forming closer banking and trade ties, backing the importance of the South American region in innovation economics.

National Broadband Network, & closer technological collaboration between Australia & Germany are 2 key themes of CeBIT AusInnovate.

Our Executive Director, Christopher Hire’s LIVE innovation analysis from CeBIT Asia Pacific; on this journal, twitter & social media.

In this time of terrorism in Mumbai, let’s look at a positive Mumbai Success Story from a Creative Company.

Use Social media to track the Mumbai attacks in real time with real people & real coverage, as well as commentary, including maps.

Do you dream of outer space? Dream a little more, with this slideshow of NASA.

City of beauty. City of water. Check out these inspiring photos & tell us what you think of Venice.

COMMENT, California, USA – Today we noticed on SlideShare an interesting presentation drawing attention to influential women in Web 2.0.
The slides are based on Fast Company’s original article.
Supporting Trends.
2thinknow have commented that with the rise of California, East European capitals, Boston, Netherlands and India as IT destinations (among others) — there has been a rise in the number of influential IT women.
The geek-level hard-coder is still predominately male. CeBit 08 or WordCamp 07 will confirm that. 90%+ wired males at last year’s San Fran WordCamp.
But now it’s beyond C++ & …

COMMENT. Global. – Trains, and rail is a resurgent transport platform.
For some great examples of trains, check out this slide-show on slideshare.
Safe, Cleaner, Practical.
Despite increasingly shrill voices on the right-wing think-tanks, calling for less public transport, rail has clear benefits, visible to all.
Most countries around the world can see the benefits. China, Japan, France, Austria, all are investing in rail. Why do you love trains?
Here at 2thinknow, next are 7 reasons why global trends support a rail renaissance.

COMMENT. Melbourne — A colleague of mine, of mature age, a professional director, told me he does not understand one thing about Melbourne’s directors.
How so many directors keep getting roles with less than stellar performance.
As a competent, good Director, he is mystified.
Shhh…
Of course no-one in the community says this publicly. I am a member of peak body AICD, and never heard it there! Truth begone! Top-down folk there.
With some Directors, often I get the feeling they want to investigate, interrogate you, and pick your brains. That’s if they can’t …

VIDEOS. France. — Bordeaux is one of the global homes of wine.
Australian vitocultural innovation has brought new world practices to old-world Europe.
On the other hand, tradition is important, and Bordeaux is a blend of European tradition & innovation. Have a look, it’s an interesting video.
Climate change may also effect wine-growing regions & the massive wine industry.

INSPIRATION – Rembrandt was a great & significant artist, primarily of people. The Dutchman’s main quality was a magnificient play with light & dark.
Be inspired by these slides, thanks to DIOGYU on Slideshare.

VIDEOS, Rwanda — Engineers Without Borders-USA are doing a great job in this Rwanda project.
Rather than more political policy, it is these hands-on initiatives that practically help people.
Local matters.
Local economics, local innovation. That’s the 2thinknow view.
Practical small things help people here and now. In this generation, not in 100 years, as may be the macro-level solution.
Practical ideas improve lives in positive ways & move beyond the ‘too-hard basket’.
What’s yours? Thoughts? Experience?

VIDEOS, USA — Some interesting ideas from nature. From TED 2005. Janine Benyus speaking on “12 sustainable design ideas from nature”.
The Shells Story is very interesting, and there are opportunities.
Da Vinci got his ideas from nature. Many designers do.
Where do you get your ideas from?

COMMENT, USA –Few people understand how the economic paradigm has shifted.
2thinknow do.
We predicted it would shift, and that their would be an economic crisis. Correctly. Back in October 2007, before others.
If you would like to see what it all means, including Obama’s election, see these slides on slideshare.
Opportunity for Local Innovation.
There are a lot of economic opportunities out there, but bright minds need opportunity.
Creativity needs its voice. Anyway, look at the slides.
I hope they help you in your quest to profit in the Bear Market.
Thanks to SlideShare for spreading this …

COMMENT, Australia — Nascent trends show that the National (or Country) Party are just about to turn a corner.
Recently the National Party were kingmakers in West Australia State elections.
Now it looks like the National Party may win in the New Zealand elections.
Barnaby’s Voice.
An independent thinker, one of the few who stood up to John Howard, Barnaby Joyce has the leadership & charisma to be a national leader. In 8-12 years.
It may be too soon, and it may not eventuate, but this is an interesting thought.
Trends for the National Party.
Food supply …

Voting machines are unreliable across the United States. How can that be in a major democracy?

ANALYSIS – According to the Polls, Obama should win the US election only a couple of days away.
We hope this time the result is not tangled up in electoral court-cases or misanthropic journalism, as was the case in Gore v Bush.
We’ll look now at how trends support Obama.
Trends Support Obama.
Australia’s Centre Left.
The fortune of leaders are often tied to the same trends in English-speaking countries. Reagan-Thatcher. Clinton-Blair. Bush-Howard.
Australia’s Prime Minister Rudd represents generational change, Obama does too.
2thinknow accurately predicted the result of the Rudd election, and the margin within 1%, …

SLIDES, USA — This slideshow that makes a pithy 7-slide case for Obama.
And if you haven’t tried out SlideShare, click thru & try it out. SlideShare is great for communicating.
Trends.
Trends support change, and a return to a US presidency where the president knows how to do his job.
Whether Obama or McCain, both are fundamentally competent politicians. Paul Daley, sets out the case for change (return to normalcy, decency & competence) in The Age here.
The current US administration deepened the current economic crisis & are now fighting in a war on …

SLIDES — Web 2.0 & social media are the part of new media of the digital age.
This includes blogs, wikis like Wikipedia, RSS feeds and sites like youtube or stumbleupon.
Business, Not Tech.
These slides set out the 10 key technologies. with a business focus, in business language. not tech-speak. So many explanations out there are technical.
We created these slides for clients, which along with a verbal presentation, explain what the technologies are, and why business should care.
2thinknow also have a proprietary web 2.0 strategy matrix that assists business to make rational …