Archive for April, 2005

Duke University and the iPod

Thursday, April 7th, 2005OK, I have had my rant. This is what the Guardian Blog had to say had to sayRather than handing a 20GB iPod to every incoming student, as it did this year, only those attending courses that have ...

iPods Enter the Classroom

Thursday, April 7th, 2005The entire Duke University class of 2008 received Apple iPod digital devices as part of a university initiative to encourage creative uses of technology in education and campus life. This mix of pop culture, information technology and pedagogy ...

Marketing to communities not segments

Tuesday, April 5th, 2005From your excerpt this is a timely and important book. I argued well over a dozen years ago that the future of marketing was communities not segments and this is proving true. I think 'brands' become even ...

Caterpillar in the sights of a powerful community

Monday, April 4th, 2005In the Financial Times today (April 4 2005), I came across an article, "Caterpillar caught in activist crossfire."Caterpillar is caught in the cross-fire between corporate America and increasingly activist shareholders, who are campaigning for rights to nominate or ...

Communities, Citizen brand and the support economy

Monday, April 4th, 2005My friend Alex Nieminen, after having a peek at our book, suggested that I take a look at a book entitled the Support Economy by Soshana Zuboff and James Maxman .As I spent the weekend gardening, raking, pruning, digging, ...

Change your newspaper as your readers are changing too

Saturday, April 2nd, 2005This year the 12th World editors Forum Conference is in SeoulThe brochure inviting me to the event dropped onto my door mat this morning.Tomi and I had already spent yesterday discussing the implications of the Economist 14 page special report ...

Darwin comes of age in the 21st Century

Friday, April 1st, 2005Tomi Ahonen , my co-author of our book Communities Dominate Brands, made this post on EAcdemy - I thought it was worth sticking in on the SMLXL blog too...Let it rip TomiThe single most relevant business magazine ...

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