Archive for the ‘Engagement Mobile’ Category

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 ...

The story of txtEagle and the networked organisation

Sunday, January 31st, 2010We posted about txtEagle recently here Nathan Eagle, explains his extraordinary story, and, the extraordinary story of how our world is being transformed by mobile communications. Nathan's personal fascination is the African continent he talks about how Mpesa and SMS ...

The future of work=TxtEagle

Tuesday, January 19th, 2010By the end of the month, a company called txteagle will be the largest employer in Kenya. The firm, started in its original form in 2008 by a young computer engineer named Nathan Eagle and, as of this coming June, ...

Its not online or offline, it’s blended reality

Thursday, January 14th, 2010We acknowledge that digital communication tools, fixed broadband, mobile, convergence, open source, cheap production tools have changed our world. And we have shown that we are reluctantly accepting that by using the word digital ever more frequently.Digital natives vs. digital ...

Alan Moore speaking @ sxsw 2010

Monday, January 11th, 2010This weekend I was invited to give a keynote @ sxsw 2010 based upon my submission in August last year. (watch the 2.5 minute film)The topic is Straight Line Thinking Stops Here, something that I covered at The Do Lectures ...

Mobile futures

Wednesday, January 6th, 2010I was asked whether I would like to make a few predictions around mobile, networks, commerce and culture by Rudy de Waele. I joined a very interesting collective to share my views and I was fascinated by what everyone of ...

What we call things is important

Wednesday, December 30th, 2009Having a mooch around with some ideas I am playing with I stumbled upon this book Metaphors We Live ByA quick check on the reviews was interestingStarting with the (deceptively) simple premise that the way we talk about certain things ...

SoftBank Mobile – Not Your Typical Telco Operator

Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009As a result of a recent conversation with Alan he kindly invited me, in an evil 'dare ya' challenge sorta way, to submit this post focused on what I had casually called a unique operator approach by SoftBank Mobile here ...

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