Saturday, October 3rd, 2009
But its a bit complicated. However I think that communication technologies today are so powerful within a networked context that we are going to witness things we never thought possible - good and bad. In my lifetime I never ever ...
Saturday, August 1st, 2009
Tim Harrap in a twitter post mentioned a conversation @ Marketing in Australia that identifies Communities Dominate Brands as being – prescient. We have become linked to what is now commonly called Social Media - thought I still prefer the ...
Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009
Following on from my post from yesterday highlighting Jamias Cascio's Video on why technology is political I picked this up from Boing Boing – Five technologies Iran is using to censor the web
While the government's initial efforts to censor the ...
Tuesday, December 16th, 2008
well some people might think so?
Thompson described "the plan" as "potentially the holy grail of future public service broadcasting provision in the UK"
The plan Stan is this
The BBC said its proposals to share its online and digital technology would provide ...
Friday, April 11th, 2008
In our book - we write
The changing of customers habits and behaviours wrought by technology means the old ways just do not work anymore. The crisis of many businesses is the crisis of meaning. Leadership for brands and businesses ...
Thursday, October 12th, 2006
Tired of the propaganda yet? I know I am. Watch the news on TV. CNN, Fox, MSNBC, it doesn?t matter. They?re all broadcasting propaganda. They all have their agenda to fill. I?m tired of reading and hearing how the ...
Saturday, July 29th, 2006
A leader article from the Guardian on the parlous state of ITV.
ITV may well become another example of what happens where ultimately hubris leads organisations. Compare ITV with the BBC or indeed the Guardian, who have maintained high ...
Thursday, June 15th, 2006
One of the great mysteries of large distributed systems - from communities and organisations to brains and ecosystems - is how globally coherent activity can emerge in the absence of centralised authority or control
This is the ...
Tuesday, January 24th, 2006
In a connected world, communities hold great power, and not just via hyperlink analysis on the Web. The groundbreaking book "Communities Dominate Brands" provides a truly realistic glimpse into the way communities have affected the way we market. Communities ...
Saturday, January 21st, 2006
I spoke at an event at Simmons and Simmons in the City on Thursday to about 185 people.
The topic - The future of mobile.
Tony Fish of AMF Ventures brought a crowd of enterprises, entrepreneurs and investors, ...
Alan has addressed, radio, television, and conference audiences globally. His book and his articles have been published many respected magazines, journals and newspapers globally.
@HastingsCJ 'cause it still means a damn when you are there, and connect, and meet, and discuss, in fact I would say its addictive... in reply to HastingsCJ1 day ago
16th March Ballroom B. My @sxsw presentation that covers the themes and topics of The No Straight Lines Project, so come along to cheer me along, heckle or profoundly disagree with my point of view.