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Mobile changes the rules by how we can market goods, products and services

Thursday, July 29th, 2010Tomi Ahonen will tell you that in many many countries mobile penetration rates are 100%+, 120%+ and even 150%+, yet when it comes to discussions around, "Social Media", mobile gets scant look in, in reality. Yet even in the UK ...

Life is ahem – really, really local

Tuesday, July 13th, 2010Another great presentation that I discovered on how local news becomes - well, local again.So if you cannot truly give value back to your relevant community and stay relevant then you become irrelevant instead. Simples. The only thing I would ...

Linda Stone and human attention

Friday, July 2nd, 2010[caption id="attachment_5470" align="aligncenter" width="260" caption="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7577137@N04/2923238790"][/caption]The economist Herbert Simon, once wrote,What information consumes is rather obvious. It consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention... The only factor becoming scarce in ...

Qustodian development opportunity

Monday, June 21st, 2010People need brands and brands need people, its just that in the early 21st Century we can help those people and those brands, find each other when they need each other the most – this is all based upon the ...

The digital you: identity and privacy in the networked society

Saturday, April 10th, 2010Here is a concise 5minute presentation I gave at Mashup recently. Thanks to the guys (Tony and Simon) for inviting me, it was certainly an interesting and stimulating evening. Not that I was surprised, but, by the time all presenters ...

Mobile my remote control for life: destination Japan

Sunday, February 28th, 2010It never ceases to amaze me that people, some people, refuse to accept that Japan has much to teach us in terms of how to market successfully, create killer advertising campaigns and do other cool stuff in which he mobilee ...

Tohato – one of the greats of engagement marketing on mobile

Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010Perhaps one of the most innovative FMCG launches anywhere - whilst others think that Buy One Get Free will suffice, Oh Well.Tomi Ahonen, my co-author of Communities Dominate Brands provides insight into the mechanics and success of the launch. And ...

Social media and mobile: my remote control for life bootcamp

Tuesday, February 9th, 2010Last year I sat with one of the anointed Glitterati of the US Digerati who was extolling the virtues of "social meeedijaa", but only from the context of online. In the end I could not take it any more and ...

Facebook dominates UK mobile usage

Saturday, February 6th, 2010Facebook accounts for nearly half of all the time people in the UK spend going online using their phones.This is really quite extraordinary which I picked up from the BBC via a hat tip from Tim Harrap (thank you Tim).People ...

Social media and mobile bootcamp

Saturday, February 6th, 2010Get your boots on and come on over to the Hospital on 16th Feb for an intimate and proactive session on how mobile plays, or should play a key role in any marketing communications strategy vs. being a peripheral addendum.I ...

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