Forgive me if you feel as though I’ve been battering you over the head with this, but NMK is conducting a user survey and I’d really like you to fill it in if you’ve had any dealings with us at all.
The survey is here.
Thank you very much indeed.
[Don’t worry about this any more the survey has closed and the powers-that-be …read the rest of this article

I’ve been writing recently about living in a post-digital world. Not that computers have gone away in any sense, but rather that the digital world now penetrates ‘normal life’ to such an extent that to make a distinction between digital and other media seems archaic. Anyway, cleverer people than me have been having similar thoughts.
Post Digital Marketing 2009

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Some of my early hopes for social media, that it represented, like Kevin Kelly reckons, some kind of renaissance for socialism in the western world, are starting to run dry.
There’s a splendid series of articles over at O’Reilly Media concerning the dark side of social media by Joshua-Michéle Ross. The first of these, The Digital Panopticon, was drawn to my …read the rest of this article

Twitter is about the real-time web; being in the flow. Once you’re following more than 100 people, it becomes an entirely different experience to instant messaging or Facebook. It feels like one of those adverts for the Information Superhighway in the 1990s: people and objects and destinations rush by. Sometimes you’ll stop and check in, by clicking on a mystery …read the rest of this article

On the one hand, I am obviously and unashamedly biased. I run a network for the digital industry. I believe that digital people are the cleverest, most capable, most focused and honest that the media industry has to offer.
On the other, crikey, there are an awful lot of digital folk working in PR nowadays. And digital outfits that ‘do’ PR. …read the rest of this article

Yes, I still have a blog, it seems, and I’m still using it to pimp work events.
Next Tuesday, we’re doing What Happens to Radio? And you should book right now, honestly.
Some of you too-cool-for-school nu-media folk might be thinking ‘who gives a shit about radio?’
So this is why I chose radio for our next event.

It’s already proven itself as the …read the rest of this article

When you have this sort of team on your side.

Only about 20 months late on this.
(And yes – I wish I could shut off that frickin’ tweeting from the Cooking Mama post below. I’ll replace the widget with a link v.soon.

I have five free tickets for the NMK Behavioural Targeting event, next Tuesday evening. We’ll be looking at the likes of Phorm, Specific Media and so forth and the opportunities they hold for advertisers and publishers, and also the threat to privacy that they may or may not represent.
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