On revolutions: two blog posts that stopped me in my tracks
Two blog posts – one notes for a Newsnight feature that never got made, the other an academic paper – made a deep impression on …
Social media
Optimising for attention: what media and marketing need to focus on in 2011
Here’s a prediction for you (why not, it is New Year’s day). In 2011, media and marketing will move beyond optimising for platforms and start …
Customers in networks: slides and notes from ChangePlayBusinesss
ChangePlayBusiness was an unusual event, to say the least, living up to its promise to be an unconference. About 40 innovators and entrepreneurs gathered at …
Content & Social – what we learned at iCrossing: slides and notes from the International Content Summit
I had a great time yesterday presenting at the first International Content Summit 2010, although I wish I could have spoken for longer as I …
Why is CSR silent in social media?
“I think Richard Dawkins was sent to test us. Like fossils. And facts.” It’s not just religious fervour that facts can get in the way …
My presentation and a podcast from Community & Marketing 2.0
The recent Community & Marketing 2.0 event in Hamburg presented an opportunity to remix my book and my iCrossing work once again. I’d not visited …
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 …
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 …
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, …
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 …