Metrics in the networked society
Monday, July 7th, 2008 Posted in Advertising, Convergence, Culture, Darwin, Economics, Social Networks, Trends, Web/Tech | No Comments »Ajit Joakar of Open Gardens has posted this In a previous blog, I discussed how Long tail social network analysis could be a business model for Web 2.0 The key insights are a) The Web has a higher CPM ...
Why the furniture of traditional advertising fails within a social media context
Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008 Posted in Advertising, Convergence, Culture, Darwin, Economics, Engagement Marketing, Generation C, Media, Participation, Philosophy, Social Networks, Trends | 1 Comment »Dave Cushman at Faster future blogspot has put together a slide deck explaining the above principal | View | Upload your own Nice one Dave and JMac adds his own contribution All good stuff and of course this ...
Xtract at Millenium Prize Finalist Symposium
Thursday, June 12th, 2008 Posted in 7th Mass Media, Advertising, Convergence, Darwin, Economics, Engagement Marketing, Media, Mobile, Networks, News, Social Networks, Strategy, Trends, Web/Tech | No Comments »The 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 Review The ...
Social Media Will Change Your Business - Engagement by any other name
Wednesday, June 11th, 2008 Posted in 7th Mass Media, Advertising, Convergence, Culture, Darwin, Distribution, Economics, Engagement Marketing, Generation C, Media, Participation, Social Networks, Society, Trends, Web/Tech, Weblogs | No Comments »Tomi and I did not use the word Social Media in CDB, but we did describe a phenomenon that we called the 4C's Commerce Culture Community Connectivity The once separate provinces of innovation, technology, economic activity, culture and communities are pulling together and converging into ...
Polyclinics are not communities
Monday, June 9th, 2008 Posted in Culture, Darwin, Ethics, Government & Politics, Health, Social Networks, Society | No Comments »In 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 practitioner For what is described as Polyclinics. We blogged abut it ...
All the rest is Spam, spam, spam, spam
Thursday, June 5th, 2008 Posted in Advertising, Convergence, Darwin, Engagement Marketing, Quotes, Retail, Strategy, Trends | No Comments »Sitting here at JFK this caught my eye All the rest is spam by my friend DC @ Fasterfuture blogspot David mentions a Scott Karp post Why Traditional Advertising Formats Fail On The Web He should have said ...
Connectivity unleashes productivity
Thursday, May 29th, 2008 Posted in 7th Mass Media, Culture, Darwin, Economics, Mobile, Networks, Social Networks, Society, Statistics, Trends | No Comments »Kevin Kelly gives us a blow by blow account of a speech made at the Long Now Foundation about decentralising control, the Gameen Bank and how that has helped local and poor populations presented by Iqbar ...
Punctuated Equilibrium for the Johnston Press
Friday, May 16th, 2008 Posted in 7th Mass Media, Advertising, Citizen journalism, Convergence, Culture, Darwin, Distribution, Economics, Engagement Marketing, Media, Newspapers, Participation, Statistics, Strategy, Television, Trends, Web/Tech | No Comments »Its sad when you see entire industries under threat - its sad when those industries also have only themselves to blame. Sometimes however they just cant see it coming - Blindsided As Stephen Jay Gould wrote Structural or mental ...
The future of TV - Monaco
Thursday, May 15th, 2008 Posted in Advertising, Convergence, Culture, Darwin, Distribution, Economics, Engagement Marketing, Media, Mobile, Strategy, Television | No Comments »I have meet some interesting people in Monaco. Thoughts : panel-based audience measurement - and counting for the digital age is madness... Steam age technology in the digital age People are still hung up on the furniture (formats) of commercial messaging... We need new ...
The advertising arms race in social networks
Saturday, May 10th, 2008 Posted in Advertising, Convergence, Culture, Darwin, Distribution, Economics, Engagement Marketing, Generation C, Media, Networks, Participation, Social Networks, Statistics, Trends, Web/Tech | No Comments »The Stampede For Social Network Dollars Intensifies writes Diane Mermigas The race to monetize and leverage the power of social networks is turning into a stampede, as evidenced by Microsoft?s recently renewed efforts to acquire Facebook in the wake ...
