Archive for March, 2009

velocity of evolution

Sunday, March 15th, 2009Marking the 20th anniversary of his proposal to create the web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee said "new changes are going to rock the world even more".The future of the web lies in mobile phones, he said at the research centre in ...

Thank you sxsw

Sunday, March 15th, 2009Yesterday I gave a presentation on the networked society and the implications for media that we now describe as social, and what they means for marketing and communications.The presentation was developed from the book social media marketingBarnes and Noble sold ...

Downfall

Friday, March 13th, 2009ITV, C4 and 5, the UK's major commercial terrestrial broadcasters are in merger talks and the New York Times front page told us that, over America local newspapers are closing down or shutting down their print operationsThe history of The ...

System failure looks like this

Thursday, March 12th, 2009[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="160" caption="system failure: http://www.wordle.net/"][/caption]Well actually is does not, but these are the key words to a new book I am working on.

Making sense of social media marketing communications

Tuesday, March 10th, 2009Why making sense? Because - when you stop making sense, you lose the right to lead.Jonathan MacDonald reviews our new book Social Media Marketing At the centre of this is the importance of data. In case you are not aware of ...

Social media marketing @ SXSW 14th March

Thursday, March 5th, 2009On the 14th March I shall be speaking at SXSW - in fact doing a book readingThe reading wil be based upon the key topics of a recent book that I co-authored Social Media MarketingJust a bit of ...

Winning with Social Media

Thursday, March 5th, 2009

The journey to the networked and engaged world starts here

Wednesday, March 4th, 2009I was invited by Brando Social to be part of their consultancy panel and to kick things off we did a half day session in the Soho hotel last week. The event was well attended, and I felt honoured to ...

citizen journalism: truth, trust and power

Wednesday, March 4th, 2009Jeff Bercovici writes, Hearst Newspapers, The New York Times Co. and the Washington Times have all announced plans to harvest the reporting of non-professional volunteers.But why uncomfortable bedfellows? BecauseThere's a healthy dose of irony here, especially when it comes to ...

The story of Franny Armstrong

Sunday, March 1st, 2009Franny Armstrong by any measure is an exceptional woman. And Franny had a burning desire to tell a story through a film that to was her, extremely important. That story is called The Age of Stupid, a story about climate ...

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