Change just one letter and it becomes a universal story. Reshared post from +Vic Gundotra This is how to tell a story. Congratulations to P&G on what I think is the best ad I’ve seen this year. Google+: Reshared 1 […]
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I wonder why marketers continue sending out graphics-rich marketing emails when the control over whether your message is seen or not is with the receiver, not you the sender. Take a look at this email I received today. It’s gobbledegook […]
Reading the Guardian’s report that Virgin Media started blocking access to Pirate Bay from yesterday in accordance with a court order in the UK requiring that action, I checked access (I’m a Virgin Media customer): it is indeed blocked. More […]
GigaOm reports on trends in data use on mobile devices, citing research from Akamai and from Chetan Sharma that shows that demand for mobile broadband is continuing to grow unabated. We are using more mobile data in more places, says […]
A very neat idea from Google – a game to raise awareness of, and educate you about, Google Maps. Cube runs in your browser (ideally Google Chrome). You play it by completing levels that set you navigational challenges in various […]
+McKinsey & Company has a good assessment of social media in their quarterly journal article “Demystifying social media.” The chart you see here shows a visual representation of key points in the article. It’s good and something I would guess […]
The EU Observer reports that the European Parliament is looking at how its 736 deputies and 6,000 staff should prepare for novelties such as internet-politics, multi-lateralism and enhanced legal powers. […] A recent example of the power of the internet […]
You hear often about mainstream media publishers designing a digital version of a print publication for mobile devices such as the iPad. Turn that idea the other way around – via PaidContent UK, here’s what Hearst UK is doing with […]
One of the feaures of travel these days is the (usually-met) expectation of high internet charges in your hotel. It’s common in Europe, for instance, for hotels to charge eye-watering rates to let you get online: charges of £20 or […]
If you moderate or participate in tweet chats, you know how frantic they can be. In a lively discussion, you can get a constant firehose of tweets pouring at you over the course of the chat, often an hour or […]
+The Next Web reports that Google is planning to launch a commenting system to rival that of Facebook’s. […] The Google comment system … will have deep links to Google’s network of services and websites, indexing comments in Google Search, […]
Next week, I’m moderating a panel discussion at The Social Customer conference in London on this very topic. Some smart people will be on that panel: Katy Howell (Managing Director, Immediate Future); Nick Sharples (Corporate Communications Consultant), Martin Hill-Wilson (Brainfood […]