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 the for est. Flow is a rate of [...]
Tag Archive: Social media
Online media: Finding balance between stock & flow
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, Ushahidi.
If you don’t know it, Ushahidi is an open source platform for communicating in a crisis. At simplest, it is a way of aggregating text messages, [...]
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 ever aired on television, The Wire – speaking at the Edinburgh TV festival last month (about in an interview with Charlie Brooker.
Similarly, brands [...]
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 how engaged major brands were with social media – called ENGAGEMENTdb – says that there is a link between how deeply an organisation engages with its customers [...]
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, then decided to write a book about the subject. It’s called Web Shadows and will be finished any day now * [...]
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 thinking in Here Comes Everybody. This is the intellectual equivalent of a Long Island Ice Tea made with preimum triple filtered spirits.
It’ll knock your socks off.
The outcome is [...]
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 revolting part of your brain is doing back flips right [...]
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 this story from Jeff Jarvis about how the German magazine Bild, took the concept of the Flip’s small, simple video camera, made it [...]
Reminder: you’re always (potentially) on the record online
It pays to be a little paranoid about emails, IMs and the likes sometimes – about not saying things in them you wouldn’t like repeated elsewhere. Especially when it comes to matters professional and commercial…
When Adam Tinworth voiced his anger at the National Union of Journalists (NUJ) and its attitude to social media in a [...]
Faris on the “natural selection of interesting”
After Mr Obama got sworn in some things threw me off kilter – sorry for the indecent silence…
Warming up with some things catching my eye, I’ll be building to an outpouring of pent up thoughts about social, strategy and the business of everything.
Hail Faris Yakob for weaving together two of my best-loved skeins of thought:
Evolutionary [...]
Tag Archive: Social media
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 the for est. Flow is a rate of [...]
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, Ushahidi.
If you don’t know it, Ushahidi is an open source platform for communicating in a crisis. At simplest, it is a way of aggregating text messages, [...]
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 ever aired on television, The Wire – speaking at the Edinburgh TV festival last month (about in an interview with Charlie Brooker.
Similarly, brands [...]
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 how engaged major brands were with social media – called ENGAGEMENTdb – says that there is a link between how deeply an organisation engages with its customers [...]
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, then decided to write a book about the subject. It’s called Web Shadows and will be finished any day now * [...]
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 thinking in Here Comes Everybody. This is the intellectual equivalent of a Long Island Ice Tea made with preimum triple filtered spirits.
It’ll knock your socks off.
The outcome is [...]
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 revolting part of your brain is doing back flips right [...]
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 this story from Jeff Jarvis about how the German magazine Bild, took the concept of the Flip’s small, simple video camera, made it [...]
Reminder: you’re always (potentially) on the record online
It pays to be a little paranoid about emails, IMs and the likes sometimes – about not saying things in them you wouldn’t like repeated elsewhere. Especially when it comes to matters professional and commercial…
When Adam Tinworth voiced his anger at the National Union of Journalists (NUJ) and its attitude to social media in a [...]
Faris on the “natural selection of interesting”
After Mr Obama got sworn in some things threw me off kilter – sorry for the indecent silence…
Warming up with some things catching my eye, I’ll be building to an outpouring of pent up thoughts about social, strategy and the business of everything.
Hail Faris Yakob for weaving together two of my best-loved skeins of thought:
Evolutionary [...]