I liked this mischievious idea from Iain Tait: When you retweet (RT) something but alter it in a subversive way it needs to be called a subtweet (ST). Ready..? I love the idea of tweaking the fidelity and the trust that people put in re-tweets. The motto for today is question everything…
Strike day two, originally uploaded by renaissancechambara. Billboard at Russell Square shows the extent of the strike action.
Email, IM, Texting Use Vary By Country; Spam Universal Top ten online PR fails | Econsultancy Should PRs pitch on Twitter? « Grapevine Consulting Overview of US Platforms & Social Networking (Startonomics Tokyo, June 2009) – if anyone knows of a video of this talk let me know, thanks! Gawker – Current’s Strategy of Silence [...]
I have been thinking a lot about the right approach to campaigns and product development. One school of thought is to focus on the client delight: this was exemplified by Waggener Edstrom’s Pam Edstrom who constantly asks of clients and their account teams ‘What is your business problem’? There are advantages to this process: Hopefully [...]
Spot the Bull – Poke London’s annual viral for Orange at Glastonbury Downtown Journal : Yearbook Yourself case study Coke’s RFID-Based Dispensers Redefine Business Intelligence — Business Intelligence Interview: Steal Our Ideas Nokia gets breakthrough deal for N97 with Russia’s MTS – Rethink Wireless Palm Pre gets B+ for first day impact, Apple may be [...]
The romance of the open road used to be Steve McQueen, but for Gen-Y it is more likely to be something like the Wipeout game series. Speed cameras, calming measures, poorly fitted manhole covers and traffic congestion has largely taken the romance out of going fast (at least in the UK). But that doesn’t mean [...]
Internet history, originally uploaded by renaissancechambara. Something that I have been working on as part of a bigger ongoing project. Enjoy.
Gorbachev Charity Ball, originally uploaded by Salim_Mitha. My former colleague Salim (co-founder of Wahanda, a kind of Last Minute for health and wellness) is known for rocking up at the glittering events. He posted some pictures from the fifth annual Raisa Gorbachev Foundation fundraising event. He posted this picture which showed a smartcard as an [...]
Audacity audio editor – open source audio editor Key findings from the 2008 graduate survey: Millennials at work 3 Free Live Traffic Trackers for Social Media Campaigns Berners-Lee: We no longer fully understand the web – opinion – 05 June 2009 – New Scientist MediaFile » Newspapers: They’re *still* dying Social web analytics key to [...]
In this edition of The Good, The Bad and the Ugly we have super hero films that sucked and deserve a new remake, mobile phone price plan options and Asian cuisine in London: Good Bad Ugly The Punisher – Hollywood has taken three runs at The Punisher and still hasn’t got it right. The first [...]
I have been playing with Bing for a little while now, so here’s my thoughts. The first thing that struck me about Bing is that most media commentators don’t get it. A classic example of what I mean is The search continues by Paul Taylor of the Financial Times (June 4, 2008). In his article [...]
eReaders, eBooks Poised to Grow Who says brands aren’t running mobile marketing campaigns? – Mobile Marketer – Editorials Etisalat Messenger – charging for IM, interesting integration with SMS and MMS though Web 2.0 Asia :: ViiKii is Youtube for international videos
I used to have a client whose brief to the PR agency I worked with was to get him coverage in the Financial Times that he could show to his buddies in the club house of the golf club. What a difference a decade makes, the internet has given us a lateral view on influence. [...]
The Next 50 Years of Public Relations « PR-Squared Following is passive, listening is activeIs Your Brand Too Big For SEO? The “S” Trilogy in Search Industry Local Officials Urged to Get Savvy on Internet PR – China Journal – WSJ Total Telecom – Bahrain mobile penetration hits 131%, fixed-line growth continues Trends in Japan [...]
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