Thought provoking content and other things

I was recently asked to talk to the lovely team at Battersea Dogs and Cats Home about some consumer trends as part of a team planning day.

It’s always fun to do a big picture presentation, and despite having only 2 days to prepare (as I was about to go on hols), it went well. So here it is:

Bonus material

For a good primer on blockchain, read this:

How does the Blockchain Work? (Part 1)

Watch this on iPlayer about how Trump’s campaign used social media data:

The Persuasion Machine, Series 1, Secrets Of Silicon Valley - BBC Two

For more on chatbots, here’s one I wrote earlier:

Lessons from #JustHacking, and building 3 chatbots in 28 hours

*Update* Here’s an interesting piece of research by NFPSynergy on what donors think about GDPR. Transparency and data — I wasn’t making it up!

GDPR - It's what the public want: even for charities

The missing gifs & exclusive behind the scenes footage

Since they don’t work in the slideshare embed, you can see the, er, amazing filters I made with Facebook’s AR studio below. Clearly, this is the *future*.

Flying Gs? Don’t mind if I do

This isn’t *that* bad

Om nom nom

As well as this very important work about eating augmented reality pizzas, was the equally important work of testing snapchat filters.

Important work is important

Oh, and you can never watch this too many times.