Archive for the ‘Culture’ Category

The BBC & social media

Saturday, April 30th, 2005John Naughton writing in last weeks Observer, published an article Priceless thinking at the BBC. Essentially the BBC is going to produce a Creative Archive The BBC describes it thus a "pioneering new approach to public ...

Communities Dominate Brands [2]

Tuesday, April 26th, 2005In mobile technology weblog- Tomi Ahonen is interviewedQ. If you had to summarise the key message in your new book, Communities Dominate Brands, what would it be? A. The digitally connected and empowered customer-community ...

Admen failing to engage

Tuesday, April 26th, 2005Published in the media section of the Guardian yesterdayJim Hytner's article on how difficult it is for marketeers to reach consumers raises several interesting points (When the message doesn't get through , April 18) but could ...

Mobile world’s ‘connected community’ presents advertisers with a new challenge

Sunday, April 24th, 2005The publication of our letter in the Financial times on Thursday April 21. Tomi and I were responding to the article that had run in the FT "TV under threat". This is what we had to saySir, Your editorial "TV ...

when the world changes fundamentally, survival depends on fundamental change

Sunday, April 17th, 2005Re-reading Bob Garfields 'Chaos Scenario piece clearly demonstrates that more conventional marketing is no longer the answer, what is required is a different type of marketing, a new way of doing things. Garfield writes As technology increasingly enables fine ...

U2 – communities – world poverty – texting

Friday, April 15th, 2005Related to our recent post on mobile phones and TV - speed of information - connection to networks - communities forming around issues etc. Rory Treffiletti of mediapost watched Bono embrace the digital age to bring ...

Chaos theory

Wednesday, April 13th, 2005 In an epic 5,500-word front-page article in the April 4 print edition of Advertising Age , columnist Bob Garfield laid out a sweeping vision of an advertising industry caroming toward chaos and disruption wrought by the digital media ...

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 ...

The web is not the Internet

Wednesday, March 30th, 2005 TV News in a Postmodern World - Beyond the World Wide Web. Stuff I liked: People do not demand messages. The internet becomes powerful when it can truly deliver1). Need to know2). Need to buyAnd of course this becomes ever ...

Co-creation to deliver customer value

Thursday, March 24th, 2005 Marketing Playbook Posted recently about the Apple iPod, and the whole accessory eco-system that has developed around it. Which has led to fierce competition among the accessory developers. Its no longer iPod killer, its the iTrip killer. It intrigues me, ...

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