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Dr Kate Stone: making technology magic and invisible

By Adam Tinworth

What happens when our tech gets so small, and so hidden, that the objects around us become magic? Dr Kate Stone believes that this is a step to reconnecting ourselves with the world.
Brands as communities: the path to navigating the permacrisis

By Adam Tinworth

Building communities around your brands isn’t just public service — it’s tapping into a fundamental human need to sustain your business.
Harper Reed on community and systems to combat a global crisis

By Adam Tinworth

What does a technologist with a history of public service do in the face of a global crisis? Gather a community, and figure out how you can help — at least, that was the approach taken by Harper Reed. Here's a summary of his interview on What's NEXT?
Global tribalism: can we adapt to it?

By Adam Tinworth

Tribalism is fundamental to humanity - we always gather in communities. But the internet has allowed us to bothe connect globally, while isolating ourselves locally. Therein lies the danger.
We’re trapped in a toxic cycle of fragmentation and centralisation

By Adam Tinworth

Fragmentation is getting a really bad press, right now. There are some good reasons for that.
We need an ongoing digital fix

By Adam Tinworth

In the midst of the digital backlash, it's important to remember that tech itself is neutral - it's what we do with it that counts.
Digital Sucks. So, let’s choose to make better decisions

By Adam Tinworth

The best part of 20 years ago a very smart woman told me something I strongly disagreed with at the time: love, she said, isn’t a feeling. It’s a decision. In my 20-something’s surge of passion and romance, I denied it all. There was no way love was anything as…
The Top 5 NEXT blog posts of 2015

By Adam Tinworth

Which posts from the NEXT blog caught your imagination in 2015? Here's the top five, based on traffic.
NEXT Reeperbahn Festival: your reactions

By Adam Tinworth

Yesterday, we broke the big news we've been working on for months: NEXT is moving to Hamburg (and the autumn) and joining the Reeperbahn Festival. And, thankfully, most people are pleased.
Start-up Pitch Shortlist

By Xenia Stubbe

The community decided who made it onto the shortlist of our NEXT Berlin start-up pitch! Together with Telekom's incubator hub:raum NEXT Berlin is searching for the most promising European seed start-ups founded within the last year! Take a look at the community's top 30!
Promising Start-up ideas need your vote!

By Xenia Stubbe

NEXT Berlin and Telekom’s incubator hub:raum are looking for the most promising seed start-ups founded within the last year. The applications process is already running - the community voting starts now!
Start-up Pitch: Application starts now!

By Xenia Stubbe

Telekom’s incubator hub:raum and NEXT Berlin are looking for the best Start-ups in Europe! From now on Start-ups have the opportunity to apply for a slot in the NEXT13 Start-up Pitch live at the conference. Become a part of it and receive a lot of international attention for your innovative business idea!
Slay the trolling dragons for a more civilised internet

By Adam Tinworth

Internet spats and fights are so tempting - and traffic generating. But are we really taking responsibility for the online culture we're creating?
Smart People, Dumb Objects, Networked Environments

Usman Haque, Pachube
Using Data to Make Advertising More Human

Glyn Britton, Albion
The Secret Diary of a Community Evangelist

David Noël, SoundCloud
Community Matters

Matt Stinchcomb, Etsy
Earning Media through Collaboration – Don Draper Socialised

Bastian Unterberg, jovoto
Microblogging at a Global Player: Web to Enterprise 2.0
How Data Creates Collective Action

Mike Arauz, Undercurrent
What’s Up Next with Magento?

Michel Goossens, Magento
Rich Relevant Data – the Future of Shopping Between Community and Commerce

Martin Groß-Albenhausen, Der Versandhausberater
What Record are You Capable of Setting

Dan Rollman, Universal Record Database