* * UPDATED: corrected from draft which was published. Facts/links/opinions unaltered. * * Alan Patrick's pure class in my book. His blog is prickly, argumentative and pushy in the very ...
Tag Archive: Social media
TV vs. social media
Which is best: TV or social media? Effectively that was the question put to me ?morning by someone writing a paper on how social is changing the media lanscape. They were being usefully provocative rather than asking a silly ...
Online media: Finding balance between stock & flow
I'm grateful to Lloyd Shepherd for the point to a post by Robin Sloan called Stock & Flow. Recalling studying for his degree in economics, Robin recalls: There are two kinds of quantities in the world. Stock is a static value: money in the bank, or trees in ...
Ushahidi: realtime social media lessons from crises (and a model for slow news?)
Yesterday, at the Legatum Institiute's Next Generation Philanthropy Forum I got to meet Juliana Rotich, programme director at one of the most interesting open source projects in the world,
How advertising distorts brand marketing
“Only when television managed to emancipate itself from the economic construct of advertising was there a real emancipation of story." So said David Simon, creator of the greatest piece of art that has ...
Meta-ROI and social media engagement for brands
I want to believe. Granted, I'm finding it less of a credulity-stretching exercise than taking UFO-ologists seriously, Charlene Li's post for the Altimeter Group about their study of ...
My top ten pieces of advice for looking after your web shadow
A while ago I did a video for the Insititute of Chartered Accountants called "12 Golden Rules for Online Personal Reputation Management". I really enjoyed it, and played with the idea for a bit, ...
Al Robertson has been tinkering / remixing Andy Gibson's thinking on what makes successful social projects, called "45 Social by Social Propositions", partly inspired by Clay Shirky's ...
Learning to read Twitter
Twitter. It's all about learning to see it. Out of utter respect for Howard Rheingold (and a weariness of Twitter neologisms) I'm going to stick with calling it Twitter literacy. If you have been reading about Twitter for a while I bet you five quid a ...
Bild’s Vado publishing eco-system and the promise of user generated advertising
This was an amazing week, that passed at a few hundred miles an hour, so sorry for the silence. First thing that has grabbed me this morning as I peruse my feeds is ...
Tag Archive: Social media
Polluting the streams, pruning the networks…
* * UPDATED: corrected from draft which was published. Facts/links/opinions unaltered. * * Alan Patrick's pure class in my book. His blog is prickly, argumentative and pushy in the very ...
TV vs. social media
Which is best: TV or social media? Effectively that was the question put to me ?morning by someone writing a paper on how social is changing the media lanscape. They were being usefully provocative rather than asking a silly ...
Online media: Finding balance between stock & flow
I'm grateful to Lloyd Shepherd for the point to a post by Robin Sloan called Stock & Flow. Recalling studying for his degree in economics, Robin recalls: There are two kinds of quantities in the world. Stock is a static value: money in the bank, or trees in ...
Ushahidi: realtime social media lessons from crises (and a model for slow news?)
Yesterday, at the Legatum Institiute's Next Generation Philanthropy Forum I got to meet Juliana Rotich, programme director at one of the most interesting open source projects in the world,
How advertising distorts brand marketing
“Only when television managed to emancipate itself from the economic construct of advertising was there a real emancipation of story." So said David Simon, creator of the greatest piece of art that has ...
Meta-ROI and social media engagement for brands
I want to believe. Granted, I'm finding it less of a credulity-stretching exercise than taking UFO-ologists seriously, Charlene Li's post for the Altimeter Group about their study of ...
My top ten pieces of advice for looking after your web shadow
A while ago I did a video for the Insititute of Chartered Accountants called "12 Golden Rules for Online Personal Reputation Management". I really enjoyed it, and played with the idea for a bit, ...
Al Robertson has been tinkering / remixing Andy Gibson's thinking on what makes successful social projects, called "45 Social by Social Propositions", partly inspired by Clay Shirky's ...
Learning to read Twitter
Twitter. It's all about learning to see it. Out of utter respect for Howard Rheingold (and a weariness of Twitter neologisms) I'm going to stick with calling it Twitter literacy. If you have been reading about Twitter for a while I bet you five quid a ...
Bild’s Vado publishing eco-system and the promise of user generated advertising
This was an amazing week, that passed at a few hundred miles an hour, so sorry for the silence. First thing that has grabbed me this morning as I peruse my feeds is ...