Next week, PSFK will be hosting Good Ideas Salon, Brooklyn. We’ll be enjoying local fare, and featuring a panel of guest speakers discussing small batch culture and local entrepreneurship.

After successful events held recently in Copenhagen and Tokyo, we wanted to let you know that we have three upcoming events taking place in Miami, Sao Paulo & Tampa. If you find yourself in those cities we’d love to see you – otherwise do pass this on to your friends there.

On October 26th, global innovation boutique Mandalah will host the first Good Ideas Salon in Latin America, addressing the systemic thinking behind emerging collaborative models and more.

PSFK and Nissan are hosting a Good Ideas Salon in Tokyo. For the event, Piers Fawkes will moderate a conversation on “Pure Living” with two panels of distinguished guests. Together, we will explore perspectives on pure living and how it is currently manifesting itself in design, technology, urban living, and transportation.

PSFK is proud to announce our next Good Ideas Salon in Tokyo on the evening of October 20, 2009.

We’re hosting a Good Ideas Salon on October 1st with special guest Jan Chipchase, and due to a fortunate location change, additional tickets are now available.

On September 15th, 2009, in association with PSFK, INDSPARK! and the Danish National Museum will proudly host Scandinavia’s first Good Ideas Salon in Copenhagen

Last week, PSFK and The Guardian presented a Good Ideas Salon at the Soho House in NYC, which focused on the past events, present issues and future possibilities of advertising. Moderated by George Parker of AdScam, the salon was split into two different panels.
The second part of the discussion features Dominico Vitale (Founder, PI&C), Gill Linton (Founder, The Joneses), and Alain Sylvain (Managing Director, RedScout), discussing the importance of creative strategy, the industry’s lack of connection with consumers, the use and over-use of terms such as “the big idea” and “branding”, and accountability.  Watch the discussion below, and see part [...]

Last week, PSFK and The Guardian presented a Good Ideas Salon at the Soho House in NYC, which focused on the past events, present issues and future possibilities of advertising. Moderated by George Parker of AdScam, the salon was split into two different panels.
Part one featured industry veterans Curvin O’ Reilly, Tom Messner (Bonaccolta Messner), and John Garland (Garland/Berjis Consulting), discussing the advent of holding companies, Saatchi & Saatchi, and the fact of the advertising profession remaining the same despite seismic changes to the media landscape. Watch the video of the presentation below, and part 2 here.

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As I’m sure many of you know, I hosted two panels at the PSFK “Good Ideas” conference at the Soho House in New York last Thursday. The subject of the meeting was “Advertising.” Which, surprisingly, had never been dealt with as a stand-alone subject at any of the previous “Good Ideas” shindigs. The format was that there would be two panels, the first a bunch of old geezers, who had come up through the traditional BDA structure, and the second being more representative of the newer kinds of communications companies who are not wedded to the traditional way of doing [...]

Last week, PSFK and YouTube hosted a Good Ideas Salon on the topic of community in San Bruno CA, at YouTube headquarters.
It was led by Mia Quagliarello (Product Marketing Manager – Community YouTube) who was joined by Jen Burton (Senior Community Manager, Digg), Heather Champ (Director of Community, Flickr) and Matthew Stinchcomb (VP – Community, Etsy). They engaged in an in-depth discussion on the communities on their respective sites,  and shared tips on building, managing, and harnessing the incredible power of vast online audiences.
You can watch the video of the panel in its entirety below, or simply read the suggested [...]

Late in April, our friends in Toronto (Janet Jones and Capital C) hosted an honest and heated discussion about the transformative effects of social media and Internet technology on traditional media spaces—indeed, one of the more exciting salons we’ve participated in yet. The well rounded panel, featured members representing different facets of the media landscape: Mathew Ingram of Globe & Mail (print), Jesse Hirsh of the CBC (broadcast), Jonathan Lister of Google Canada (Internet), David Jones of Hill & Knowlton (PR) and moderator Tony Chapman of The Capital C (advertising and marketing).
Some of the critical points of discussion include:

How has [...]

Last Friday at the Art Directors Club in New York, Piers Fawkes of PSFK sat down for a panel discussion on contemporary collaboration with Mike Brown of Virgin Group, Ben Lerer, founder of Thrillist, Sam Lessin, CEO of drop.io, and Nate Westheimer, VP Product, anyClip.com & Organizer, NY Tech Meetup. The afternoon’s talk centered around creative collaboration in the realm of business and entrepreneurship, and how both creative individuals and business-oriented entities can profit from working around shared interests.

From the discussion emerged a common sentiment, introduced by Lerer, that smaller creative groups need to take advantage of and leverage what [...]

In March, PSFK gave the reigns of its Good Ideas Salon to Brett McFarlane and Matt Nelson over at DDB Canada in Vancouver.  Brett and Matt hosted a great event focusing on good ideas in media, with expert panelists Rob Newell, Director of Planning at DDB Canada, Steve Pratt, Director CBC Radio 3, and Grace Carter, Media Specialist at Invoke Media.  Check out video footage from the salon:

Be sure to check back soon for Brett and Matt’s thoughts and findings from the salon.
Janet Jones, in association with Capitol C in Toronto will be hosting their own Good Ideas Salon April [...]

At our Good Ideas Salon in London, Simon Waldman, head of digital at the Guardian, rounded out the day with a great discussion on the future of journalism and how the Guardian is adapting to a rapidly changing industry.
In his talk (which you can watch in full below), Simon presents ways the Guardian has transformed with the upheaval of old media models, choosing to embrace new approaches to storytelling, community building, and information gathering and sharing. Simon argues that the foundations of traditional media have been falling apart for years; the idea of centralized control of information started fading long [...]