Archive for the ‘Social Networks’ Category

Traditional media must “engage” or die

Thursday, August 13th, 2009Half the country's 1,300 local newspapers will close between now and 2013, destroying 20,000 media jobs. There will be a decline of original content across the board that will have enormous consequences for democracy.Its not that journalism, news and newspapers ...

Networked economics comes to the music industry

Friday, August 7th, 2009Richard Wray writes,It has finally sunk in that there will not be one single replacement for the ongoing drop in "physical" music sales - in other words, the perpetual decline in CD buying. Instead, a host of new services will ...

Mobile engagement for local authorities

Thursday, August 6th, 2009I picked this up from the Linkedin Group on mobile content:How can local government make savings and improve services? The answer, is mobile communications.If “Quantitative Easing” is out of the question, how can local councils cope with a burden of ...

Communities Dominate Brands – prescient

Saturday, August 1st, 2009Tim 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 ...

Only connect

Monday, July 27th, 2009Was the dictum of E.M. Forster - and this is something that technologies of cooperation enable us to do in powerful ways, that create in the process; deeper context and greater meaning in those rapid-fire communications. Outside of the essays, long ...

No Straight lines: an advanced living course for the networked society

Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009My good friend Euan Semple was interviewed at guruonlineIn this exclusive interview, social media expert Euan Semple breaks social media down into easy to understand terms and explains not only why every business should at least have a look at ...

Communication technology; is political [Iran]

Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009Following 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 webWhile the government's initial efforts to censor the ...

Communication technology is political

Tuesday, July 21st, 2009Technology is Political from Jamais Cascio on Vimeo.Manuel Castells new book is called Communication Power, [Amazon] he writes reflecting on his time as an 18 year old protesting against the Franquist regimeWhat I sensed then, and believe now, is that ...

in the next decade we need to be radical about power; realistic about money; and relentless on innovation

Tuesday, July 21st, 2009I picked up this quote by Liam Byrne MP from Emma Mulqueeny's post on two recent reports, [1] Cabinet Office Strategy Unit Power in people’s hands: learning from the world’s best public services [2] Lords Information Committee creating connections between ...

Surfing waves of change (lose yourself to find yourself)

Monday, July 20th, 2009Recently, I met a remarkable young woman called Jane Young, who hails for the Shetland Islands and also runs Scrmblr. I immediately admired her passion for wanting to do something different in this world and she is definitely a part ...

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