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 ...
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 economics of abundance and human behaviour
Thursday, May 22nd, 2008 Posted in Culture, Economics, Retail, Society, Statistics, Trends | No Comments »What information consumes is rather obvious. It consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention. The only factor becoming scarce in a world of abundance is human attention. Said the economist Herbert ...
Punctuated Equilibrium for the Johnston Press
Friday, May 16th, 2008 Posted in 7th Mass Media, Advertising, Citizen journalism, Convergence, Culture, Darwin, Distribution, Economics, Engagement Marketing, Media, Newspapers, Participation, Statistics, Strategy, Television, Trends, Web/Tech | No Comments »Its sad when you see entire industries under threat - its sad when those industries also have only themselves to blame. Sometimes however they just cant see it coming - Blindsided As Stephen Jay Gould wrote Structural or mental ...
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 ...
Gin, Television, and Social Surplus in the World of Participatory Culture
Monday, May 5th, 2008 Posted in Convergence, Culture, Darwin, Engagement Marketing, Generation C, Government & Politics, Media, Networks, Participation, Quotes, Social Networks, Society, Statistics, Trends, Web/Tech | 1 Comment »Clay Shirky writes a very philosophical piece about culture/media and participation I was having dinner with a group of friends about a month ago, and one of them was talking about sitting with his four-year-old daughter watching a DVD. ...
Gutenberg and Flow
Saturday, April 26th, 2008 Posted in Distribution, Economics, Networks, Society, Statistics, Trends, Web/Tech | 3 Comments »So I posted about Flow and then Gutenberg Of course Gutenberg was the first to unleash the flow of knowledge, ideas and communication. Today the projection looks like this The unleashing of such data flows are the equivalent to ...
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 ...
Making data free is economic sense
Wednesday, April 9th, 2008 Posted in Distribution, Economics, Ethics, Government & Politics, Society, Statistics, Trends, Web/Tech | No Comments »We seem to have a theme going on about data and its various uses at the moment. I spotted this recently Two years ago, we launched our Free Our Data campaign on an act of faith. ...
Power Play on the Global Stage
Saturday, April 5th, 2008 Posted in Convergence, Culture, Darwin, Economics, Government & Politics, Participation, Philosophy, Politics, Quotes, Social Networks, Society, Statistics, Strategy, Trends, Uncategorized, Web/Tech | No Comments »The way that consumer power is shifting across the globe is going to significantly affect the way that brands maintain ‘relationships’ with their customers. The impact of new economic global powerhouses, coupled with the empowerment of ‘digitally fluent’ consumers means ...
