I started thinking about the power of language whilst I was reading Shiv Singh’s Social Media Marketing for Dummies. It’s not that this power was a new thing, secret societies like Freemasonry used key turns of phrase as a way to help identify each other and some of them made it into common parlance of [...]
I’ve been doing a range of public presentations over the past year to a wide range of audiences from policemen and hoteliers to the digerati, so I thought I would share a selection of them with you. Right after I got back from a few days R&R with a little networking on the side in [...]
Saul Griffith in a presentation he gave as part of the Long Now Foundation talked about the environmental impact of our stuff. The possessions that we own make up about a quarter of our lifetime carbon footprint. The way to reduce this is to have stuff that lasts longer, and that we want to keep [...]
I went to see the Dieter Rams exhibition at the design museum featuring the products of Braun and it reminded me of how a successful business can thrive with great design and how meddling marketers and managers more concerned with the concept of shareholder value than focusing on providing something of value to consumers can [...]
Just under a year ago I wrote a blog post highlighting 29 not-very-technical things that every PR person should know, which started a discussion about what the new PR person would look like. At the time I deliberately focused on ‘not-very-technical’ things because PR people generally aren’t that technical or they would be doing proper [...]
The office that I work in has been abuzz about Google Wave and Becky has been gently badgering me to air my thoughts on it. I have been reluctant to give a definitive judgement on it, as I believe that like Twitter; it’s true utility may not become apparent until there are a critical amount [...]
I was listening to a mix by Japanese DJ SoccerBoy when I came across this page on his site. It featured a section of the documentary film made about the traditional dolphin cull in a small village in Japan. The text on the page reads: “Whites don’t kill dolphins, Yellows do” HUMANE + ECOLOGY = [...]
I have heard a number of people repeating the mantra ‘If content is King, context is Queen‘ recently but wanted to ask what does that really mean any more? On the one hand location provides context, when I think about my online persona: LinkedIn is my business face Facebook and Twitter is more social Friendfeed [...]
I have been thinking about legislation and innovation recently, triggered in part by a conversation over Twitter that I had with Phillip Sheldrake over Twitter whilst he was at the Intellect conference. In western countries such as the UK, France, Sweden and the US we have seen legislation and authorities act out of fear and [...]
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