Archive for April, 2005

Yours is a very, very, bad hotel

Wednesday, April 13th, 2005Now then, some people seem to think that John Moore and I are brothers - seperated at birth etc., This is not true - though we are good friends and I happen to think he is a very smart geezer.Johnnie ...

Electronic Communities defined

Wednesday, April 13th, 2005Clever guys over at the Faculty of Law, University of EdinburghNicholas J. Gervassis has written a paper on virtual communitiesThe first community, the intellectual virtual community, can be characterised on the basis of a shared (intellectual) ...

Chaos theory

Wednesday, April 13th, 2005 In an epic 5,500-word front-page article in the April 4 print edition of Advertising Age , columnist Bob Garfield laid out a sweeping vision of an advertising industry caroming toward chaos and disruption wrought by the digital media ...

Broadcast TV Networks rattled by DVR Inroads: Technology a Serious Threat to Ad Revenue

Tuesday, April 12th, 2005Although the broadcast networks publicly play down the impact of ad-skipping technologies, it was clear from a panel at last week's National Cable & Telecommunications Association conference that TV moguls see the spread of digital video recorders as a serious ...

Brands and Blogs

Sunday, April 10th, 2005 Jake over at Community Guy has posted an update on the Krytonite story An interview he has picked up from flackLife with comments on an interview with the General manager from Kryptonite It reinforces our view that ...

Latest in the Krytonite saga

Sunday, April 10th, 2005Jake over at Community Guy has posted an update on the Krytonite storyAn interview he has picked up from flackLife with comments on an interview with the General manager from Kryptonite by PRnewsIt reinforces ...

Destruction of a brand in 6 easy steps

Friday, April 8th, 2005I came across this on the gapingvoid blog about the D-lock manufacturer Kryptonite that we use as a case history in our book - as one example of the power of community and the blogosphere. This made me ...

Brands are about interaction

Friday, April 8th, 2005I love the language and tone of voice at Gapingvoid. And of course the subject matter. Here Gaping void muses on how businesses might be more successful wiith their customers, how interacting with them, understanding that the value is ...

To replace TV? Mobile Phone says today’s FT

Thursday, April 7th, 2005Tomi has made comment on a front page article in today's FT on advertising agencies, mobile phones and TV on our blog dedicated to issues relating to our book.A fascinating front cover story in today's the ...

A short Story about a Long Journey

Thursday, April 7th, 2005From Consumer to CommunityOver the last 4 years Tomi Ahonen and I have separately and together observed the radically changing business, media and social landscape, on an international scale. It has resulted in our book entitled Communities Dominate Brands.?For Tomi ...

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