Archive for 2008

Government 2.0 a rubbish name for a good initiative?

Thursday, July 3rd, 2008I really enjoyed this article in the Guardian Government 2.0 is a rubbish name for a good initiativeGovernment 2.0 is a daft term. Its first airing, as the title of one of those management-consultant books on "how the ...

Technology and learning – a thought for the day

Thursday, July 3rd, 2008In April 2006, Susan Greenfield sponsored a debate ( More ) in the house of Lords based around the impact of the latest technologies on the way young people might think and learn differently from previous generations.In her ...

Why the furniture of traditional advertising fails within a social media context

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008Dave Cushman at Faster future blogspot has put together a slide deck explaining the above principal| View | Upload your ownNice one Dave and JMac adds his own contributionAll good stuff and of course this ...

Engaged Politics in the networked society

Monday, June 30th, 2008On Friday, citizen reporters, "broadcasting jockeys", members of Internet communities and bloggers gathered at the OhmyNews' fourth International Citizens Reporters' Forum held in Nurtikum Business Tower in Seoul. Under the theme "Candlelight 2008," they discussed how the candlelight vigils are ...

The miracle of Hudson Street

Friday, June 27th, 2008A piece of elegiac and beautiful writing from Malcolm Gladwell - though there is a point to its inclusion on CDB the title is called Designs for WorkingIn the early nineteen-sixties, Jane Jacobs lived on Hudson ...

Ogilvy says: From Interruption to Engagement

Thursday, June 26th, 2008All Companies must learn to move from interruption to inviting participation. For all marketing initiatives, this no longer means communicating by interruption, but by engagementIs what was written in CDB, waaaaaaay back in 2005 and in fact it was something ...

Social Advertising Intelligence

Tuesday, June 24th, 2008The Social Marketing Intelligence company ? Xtract has just released a paper on Social Advertising IntelligenceThere are many people, companies, striving to make sense of the networked world from a commercial perspective - this started ...

Xtract at Millenium Prize Finalist Symposium

Thursday, June 12th, 2008The Millenium Symposium is an event that takes place in Finland and in fact brings many people together far and wide. For example The Chief Editor and Publisher, Jason Pontin of MIT Technology ReviewThe ...

Social Media Will Change Your Business – Engagement by any other name

Wednesday, June 11th, 2008Tomi and I did not use the word Social Media in CDB, but we did describe a phenomenon that we called the 4C'sCommerce Culture Community ConnectivityThe once separate provinces of innovation, technology, economic activity, culture and communities are pulling together and converging into ...

Polyclinics are not communities

Monday, June 9th, 2008In the UK at the moment the Government (Civil Service) is moving to roll out a plan to remove our local GP surgeries - GP stands for General practitionerFor what is described as Polyclinics. We blogged abut it ...

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