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7/7 perspective 10 years on

Neville Hobson 11 Comments Communication, Events, Experiences, Mainstream Media, Mobile, Online Media, Public Relations, Social Media, Society, Television

Today marks the tenth anniversary of the July 7 terrorist bombings in London in 2005, known as 7/7. On the morning of Thursday, 7 July 2005, four Islamist men detonated four bombs – three in quick succession aboard London Underground trains across the city and, later, a fourth on a double-decker bus in Tavistock Square. As well as the four bombers, 52 civilians were killed and over 700 more were injured in the attacks, the United Kingdom’s worst terrorist incident since the 1988 Lockerbie bombing as well as the country’s first ever suicide attack. I was in London that day and caught up in a very minor way with the unfolding  events as I tried to get to Heathrow airport […]

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Fixing a polling system that’s out of sync

Neville Hobson 11 Comments Communication, Europe, Events, Mainstream Media, Online Media, Politics, Public Relations, Reputation, Social Media, Society, Television, Trends, Web

Reading the various reports, narratives and commentaries this weekend about the results of the UK general election that took place on May 7, the overall perspective I’ve formed on all of that is how could the expert commentators, opinion-formers and outcome-predictors have got it all so wrong? The election result produced a clear win for the Conservatives with a slender majority in the House of Commons (12 seats), and the virtual annihilation of the primary opposition political parties – the leaders of Labour, the Liberal Democrats and Ukip have all quit – that confounded every single opinion poll in the months, weeks and days leading up to May 7, which had all predicted a hung Parliament as the best outcome […]

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Scotland referendum results via WhatsApp and more

Neville Hobson 10 Comments Communication, Europe, Events, Experiences, Innovation, Mainstream Media, Mobile, Online Media, Politics, Public Relations, Social Media, Social Networks, Society, Technology, Television, Web

Tomorrow, the United Kingdom will not be the same no matter what happens in Scotland today as citizens there cast their votes in a referendum to decide whether Scotland will separate from the UK and become an independent country, or not. The campaigning is done; now it’s up to the voters of Scotland to decide what they want for their country and the union with England that’s been in place since 1707. Obviously media of all types – mainstream, social – and from all over the world are devoting huge time and resources to coverage of an event that has got the world’s attention especially in countries where the flames of separatism may be further fanned on the outcome in […]

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Valuable insights in 2014 #InternetTrends report by Mary Meeker

Neville Hobson 12 Comments Business, Communication, Innovation, Mobile, Online Media, Social Networks, Society, Software, Technology, Television, Trends, Web, Workplace

Last week, US venture capitalist and former Wall Street securities analyst Mary Meeker published her 2014 Internet Trends report that offers a deep-dive look into the trends, possibilities, probabilities, scope and scale of what the global connected world will look like in the coming few years. It highlights trends to pay attention to, offering keen insights into what’s shaping this connected world: Key internet trends showing slowing internet user growth but strong smartphone, tablet and mobile data traffic growth as well as rapid growth in mobile advertising. Emerging positive efficiency trends in education and healthcare. High-level trends in messaging, communications, apps and services. Data behind the rapid growth in sensors, uploadable / findable / shareable data, data mining tools and […]

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Smartphones preferred device for news among affluent consumers says BBC

Neville Hobson 34 Comments Advertising, Business, Communication, Mainstream Media, Marketing, Mobile, Online Media, Public Relations, Social Media, Society, Software, Technology, Television, Trends, Web

The results of a new survey for BBC World News shows a surge in smartphone use for consuming news among affluent consumers compared to the general population. The BBC defines “affluent consumers” as the highest 20 percent income earners in each country surveyed. What the BBC describes as the world’s first study into the use of mobile by affluent consumers – over 6,000 such people were surveyed in Australia, Germany, Sweden, India, Hong Kong and the US – shows a 15 percent yearly increase in the amount of people who would prefer to use a phone to read the news compared to a 17 percent decline for desktop computers. In terms of how those surveyed prefer to read the news […]

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