Archive for the ‘Trends’ Category

Nobody is as clever as everybody

Friday, March 18th, 2005 My co-author and friend Tomi Ahonen gave me an article from the economist yesterday called The future of innovation. The rise of the creative consumerThe article discusses how online communities are engaging with a whole ...

Building a brand through a community

Thursday, March 17th, 2005My good friend Adriana at the Big Blog Company flipped a link over to me today about building a brand via a blog and a community, which I wished we could have shoehorned into our book ...

Dyson uses blogs to launch new product

Thursday, March 17th, 2005Thanks to the guys at the Big Blog Company for bringing this to my attention Sucking sound Dyson as in vacuum cleaners is using the blogosphere to launch its new product. Net Imperative says...

Leave your mind open to what you are seeing

Monday, March 14th, 2005WHY WE MUST FORGE AHEAD INTO NEW METHODS OF ADVERTISING Marketers' Greatest Potential Is In Cutting-Edge Technologies Scott Donaton, editor of AdAge has some very interesting thoughts about the above title.The future is here. This isn't some dark vision of ...

Readymades for the early 21st Century

Monday, March 14th, 2005Marcel Duchamp - the conceptual artist coined the word "Readymades" for his urinal that was placed in art gallery and called art. Creating at the time significant debate. It seems we have something similar going on in the world ...

Audio-visual format wars. But guess who is in control?

Sunday, March 13th, 2005From the Financial Times Thursday March 2005. As Tim Burt, Scott Morrison and Aline van Duyan writeMedia companies have to work out how to capitalise on new methods of distributing and storing their output. But different business models mean there ...

Do the right thing

Sunday, March 13th, 2005Bit off piste here - but I am sitting in Helsinki airport on my way home and I have had this piece of info for a while. In the UK there are 50 million mobile phones. Every year 15 million are ...

In pursuit of a lifetime of happiness

Tuesday, March 8th, 2005Having made my guilty post last night having not posted for over a week, which is partly due to the book publication and work. I picked up the FT magazine from this weekend -05.03.05, which I had left open at ...

Thinking sideways

Monday, March 7th, 2005Wired magazine published an interesting article Revenge of the Right Brain which I believe reinforces why our soon to be published book Communities Dominate Brands was such a necessary exercise.Written by Daniel H. Pink and adapted ...

An open conversation with General Motors

Wednesday, February 23rd, 2005Neville Hobson has a relevant and timely post on his blog. A conversation with Michael Wiley, Director New Media at GM. This caught our eye at SMLXL since we mention Bob Lutz Vice Chairman at General Motors - ...

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