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 ...
Engaged Politics in the networked society
Monday, June 30th, 2008 Posted in Citizen journalism, Generation C, Government & Politics, Participation, Social Networks, Society, Trends | 1 Comment »On Friday, citizen reporters, "broadcasting jockeys", members of Internet communities and bloggers gathered at the OhmyNews' fourth International Citizens Reporters' Forum held in Nurtikum Business Tower in Seoul. Under the theme "Candlelight 2008," they discussed how the candlelight vigils are ...
The miracle of Hudson Street
Friday, June 27th, 2008 Posted in Culture, Engagement Marketing, Networks, Participation, Social Networks, Society, Sociology, Strategy | No Comments »A piece of elegiac and beautiful writing from Malcolm Gladwell - though there is a point to its inclusion on CDB the title is called Designs for Working In the early nineteen-sixties, Jane Jacobs lived on Hudson ...
Social Advertising Intelligence
Tuesday, June 24th, 2008 Posted in Advertising, Economics, Media, Networks, Social Networks, Statistics, Strategy, Trends, Web/Tech | 1 Comment »The Social Marketing Intelligence company ? Xtract has just released a paper on Social Advertising Intelligence There are many people, companies, striving to make sense of the networked world from a commercial perspective - this started ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
Thinking Like an Economist Undermines Community
Monday, May 5th, 2008 Posted in Books, Culture, Darwin, Economics, Ethics, Social Networks, Society, Sociology, Trends | 2 Comments »Says Stephen A Marglin Economists celebrate the market as a device for regulating human interaction without acknowledging that their enthusiasm depends on a set of half-truths: that individuals are autonomous, self-interested, and rational calculators with unlimited wants and ...

