Archive for the ‘Books’ Category

The Chosen

Wednesday, December 7th, 2005The chosenOur friendships have become a rare constant in a dislocated world says Stuart JeffriesMore and more is being asked of this voluntary, informal, personal relationship. It is commonplace for sociologists to note that institutions like ...

The world is flat

Thursday, December 1st, 2005And so it was that Thomas Friedmann won the Financial Times Book of the Year Award.With his book The World is FlatFriedmann believes thatThe world is moving from a place where value was created in vertical ...

Communities Dominate Brands : review

Friday, October 7th, 2005We got another positive review of our book over at mediainfluencer. Adrian Cronin-Lukas writesThis book is not just an essay about understanding how the convergence of many technologies has changed everything, it is nothing less than a survival ...

Communities Dominate Brands mentioned on Hobson & Holz Podcast

Friday, September 9th, 2005Neville Hobson, who one can only describe as a prolific blogger, mentions our book in his latest podcast of the Hoobson and Holz report. You can get it hereA more detailed review of our book will be coming ...

Living in a consumers republic

Tuesday, August 16th, 2005I came across an interesting book this week by Lizabeth Cohen - Mumford Jones Professor of American Studies, Dept. History Harvard University. Entitled A Consumers' Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar AmericaCohen explains:What I discovered ...

Into the Darknet

Friday, August 12th, 2005 I am just in the process of finishing Darknet Which I would strongly recommend to anyone that is interested in how communities, and peer-to-peer networks are changing the structural nature of how we consume content, and how big ...

The keys to the Kingdom are mine. How digitalisation put the ‘me’ into media

Friday, July 22nd, 2005Ed Richards, Senior partner strategy & Market Development at OfCom talking at the Westminster media forum had some very interesting things to say, about the evolving nature of media and communications . Ed Richards says:The traditional means of ...

Review of our book at Amazon

Tuesday, July 12th, 2005I am feeling very chuffed this afternoon, as I went to the Amazon site to check up on our book to see that a chap called Aaron had reviewed our book .Aaron saysThis book impresses on every ...

Communities Dominate Brands Review

Sunday, May 22nd, 2005We got a review of our book at the mobile weblog on 19th May. Here is the conclusion:I don't think I've ever read a book that has such a contemporary feel to it. Even the case studies feel ...

Alan speaks to OgilvyOne in Barcelona

Sunday, May 15th, 2005 Last Thursday, I gave a speech to 60+ senior members of OgilvyOne in Barcelona. Thank you OgilvyOne for inviting me. Of course, I was talking about our book Communities Dominate Brands and the converging issues that are forcing businesses ...

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