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 ...
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 ...
On the origin of Social Media and Advertising
Friday, April 18th, 2008 Posted in Advertising, Culture, Distribution, Economics, Generation C, Media, Mobile, Networks, News, Social Networks, Society, Strategy, Trends | No Comments »Read it here Though Mark Selby speaking at Forum Oxford today says its not UGC - It is in fact Collaborative Social Media and I buy that. UGC - for advertisers USER read CONSUMER - faceless ...
How do I reach Jan Chipchase @ Nokia and why is Apple so bad? [2]
Thursday, April 17th, 2008 Posted in 7th Mass Media, Culture, Mobile, Sociology, Strategy | 1 Comment »I posted on Nokia's ethnographic research and used a Wired article as an example of 2 different ways of approaching product design And David Clark commented Its important to note that Apple doesn't shun user research ...
Nomadic Generation C in the space of information flows
Friday, April 11th, 2008 Posted in 7th Mass Media, Convergence, Culture, Darwin, Distribution, Generation C, Media, Messaging, Mobile, Networks, Social Networks, Society, Statistics, Trends, Web/Tech | 1 Comment »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 ...
When Petrabytes seem like kilobytes - what comes next?
Monday, April 7th, 2008 Posted in 7th Mass Media, Advertising, Convergence, Darwin, Economics, Engagement Sciences, Marketing, Mobile, Networks, Retail, Science, Social Networks, Society, Web/Tech | 5 Comments »Affirmation is a great and positive word and I have been feeling some affirmation recently and here is another small slice The concept of Web 2.0 is a dynamic, user-driven mesh of technologies Absolutely, and Carlota Perez in her book Technological ...
DoubleClicks view of the future
Saturday, April 5th, 2008 Posted in 7th Mass Media, Advertising, Broadcast, Convergence, Economics, Marketing, Media, Mobile, Strategy, Trends, Web/Tech | 1 Comment »An interesting and indeed an engaging set of videos which are well worth looking at how media is evolving, how TV and the web will converge, how we will go increasingly mobile, how search and discovery will transform advertising ...
Mind the Gap
Thursday, April 3rd, 2008 Posted in 7th Mass Media, Advertising, Convergence, Culture, Darwin, Distribution, Economics, Engagement Marketing, Generation C, Media, Mobile, Networks, Philosophy, Social Networks, Society, Strategy, Trends, Web/Tech | 1 Comment »Reading Tomi's last post prompted me to think out loud on some broader issues that have been brewing for some time. That thought process relates to the idea of FRICTION - Friction is abrasion, agitation, attrition, ...
How consumer conversation will change business using Social Marketing Intelligence
Tuesday, April 1st, 2008 Posted in Culture, Darwin, Economics, Engagement Marketing, Marketing, Media, Mobile, Networks, Social Networks, Society, Statistics, Strategy, Trends, Web/Tech | No Comments »Prive Waterhouse Coopers have published a report How consumer conversation will change business One consumer voice can morph into a community in minutes. Are you listening? They say - The speed and scale of consumer conversations can redirect entire markets - ...
Evolution of SMLXL
Friday, March 28th, 2008 Posted in 7th Mass Media, Advertising, Books, Broadcast, Citizen journalism, Convergence, Culture, Darwin, Distribution, Economics, Education, Engagement Civil Society, Engagement Education, Engagement Marketing, Engagement Mobile, Engagement Organisations, Engagement Politics, Engagement Research, Engagement Sciences, Generation C, Government & Politics, Marketing, Media, Mobile, Music, Networks, News, Newspapers, Participation, Philosophy, Politics, Retail, Science, Social Networks, Society, Sociology, Strategy, Trends, Web/Tech, Weblogs, iPTV | No Comments »In 2002, I founded a company called SMLXL - short for Small Medium Large XtraLarge. Its focus was and still is - how do businesses and organisations meaningfully engage in a commercial or social agenda with their audiences. We were some ...
