The Communication Ideal
Thursday, November 20th, 2008 Posted in 7th Mass Media, Advertising, Books, Broadcast, Convergence, Culture, Darwin, Economics, Engagement Education, Engagement Marketing, Engagement Mobile, Engagement Research, Ethics, Generation C, Law, Marketing, Mobile, Music, Networks, Participation, Society, Strategy, Television, Trends, Web/Tech | 1 Comment »I met Jonathan MacDonald whilst working on the launch of Blyk last year. You might say it was love at first sight. I can remember on one occassion a particuarly charged group meeting, with J-Mac sitting on my shoulder egging me ...
The Craftsman and the special human need of being engaged
Monday, November 17th, 2008 Posted in Culture, Engagement Civil Society, Engagement Marketing, Engagement Research, Marketing, Participation, Philosophy, Society, Trends, Web/Tech | No Comments »I have been reading Richard Sennett's book The Craftsman. And is something that I want to dwell on in a few posts. Defining craftsmanship far more broadly than “skilled manual labor,” Richard Sennett maintains that the computer programmer, the doctor, the ...
Is this news or PR?
Friday, November 7th, 2008 Posted in Convergence, Culture, Economics, Engagement Organisations, Engagement Research, Participation, Social Networks, Society, Trends, Web/Tech, Weblogs | No Comments »How the Millennial Generation connects is an article in the FT... E-mail is so 1998. IM-ing, texting, Twittering? Now we're talking - or to be more specific, that's how the next-generation workforce is talking. As the "Millennials" establish themselves in the workplace, ...
How social analytics benefits consumers
Friday, November 7th, 2008 Posted in 7th Mass Media, Advertising, Economics, Marketing, Media, Mobile, Networks, Science, Social Networks, Strategy, Trends, Web/Tech | No Comments »[caption id="attachment_793" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="The complexity and beauty of social network theory"][/caption] Using new social tools, consumers can decide, what information they want to reveal to the advertisers and what to keep private. For marketers and advertisers, this is a unique ...
ProPublica versus the Grocers
Saturday, October 18th, 2008 Posted in Citizen journalism, Ethics, Government & Politics, Newspapers, Participation, Society, Trends | No Comments »ProPublica.org aims to make up some of the ground lost to journalism by the current crisis of advertising revenues bleeding to the internet. In particular, it seeks to preserve the skills and value of investigative reporting one of the first ...
The bull market for humility
Friday, October 17th, 2008 Posted in Culture, Darwin, Economics, Ethics, Quotes, Society, Trends | No Comments »This disproportionality has been tested to destruction by the recent hysteria of City incomes. The result is that, after a decade of widening wealth differentials, they should start to narrow. Non-economic components of what we vaguely refer to as the good life will take ...
Crowdsourcing creates friction
Monday, October 13th, 2008 Posted in Advertising, Culture, Darwin, Distribution, Economics, Ethics, Participation, Social Networks, Trends, Uncategorized, Web/Tech | No Comments »Kevin Potts recently did a review/critique of wundersite www.99designs.com - which appears to be a simplified spin of other such sites like Elance and what Kevin calls it’s “malignant brethren”. The site, which uses less than ideal techniques to ...
C’mon everybody
Sunday, October 12th, 2008 Posted in Convergence, Culture, Darwin, Distribution, Engagement Marketing, Generation C, Marketing, Participation, Philosophy, Social Networks, Society, Strategy, Trends | 1 Comment »in Widgets, People and the Web - I pointed to David Cushman and his thoughts about how humans become in a world of ubiquitous social computing the very nervous systems upon which future commerce and all other things will be ...
Widgets, people and the web
Friday, October 10th, 2008 Posted in Advertising, Convergence, Culture, Darwin, Distribution, Economics, Engagement Marketing, Engagement Mobile, Generation C, Marketing, Media, Participation, Retail, Social Networks, Sociology, Strategy, Trends, Web/Tech | 1 Comment »Dave Cushman presented his thoughts on how people become the key distributors of information in the networked society Dave mentions Reed's Law - the law of group forming networks. Another thought that has crossed my mind is that there is a ...
Periodic Table of Videos
Monday, October 6th, 2008 Posted in Convergence, Culture, Generation C, Media, Participation, Philosophy, Social Networks, Society, Trends, Web/Tech | No Comments »The Periodic Table of Videos is something that Euan picked as one of his fav's of the web and 12 Seconds There are some that decry the web as a place that kills culture. I just can't figure out what ...
