Tag Archives: events

Bye, Jason… and F*ck You

I am obviously speaking in an out of work capacity here. And rather later than is fashionable in the blogging world - Calacanis’ announcement that he’s giving up blogging was nearly two weeks ago.
At work, we paid Jason Calacanis £5000 to come to London and speak at a conference last year. From reading the [...]

idesign 08 - the conference of Gods!

I’m delighted to announce idesign 08, what we modestly like to call ‘the UK’s leading conference for interactive design.’ The conference will take place at the South Bank Centre, London on September 17 as part of the London Design Festival.
I’d be even more delighted if you were to: (a) book for the event; and (b) [...]

So this VRM thing

I had the great pleasure this evening of attending the VRMhub meeting organised by Adriana Lukas, and attended by a group of extremely clever people working to try to make it happen (and me). Tonight, Cluetrain co-author and father of the VRM project Doc Searls was in attendance. I’ll paraphrase his introduction and add a [...]

Sit and Listen

[This is a tad off-topic but has a 2.0 in it and so is fair game. Feel free to disagree.]
I was at a press briefing for the launch of a new report called Learning 2.0 from the CIM (Chartered Institute of Marketing) this morning (it’s not online till 21/2). They asked me what I thought [...]

Directive Number One

Many thanks to comrade Mayfield for his excellent presentation to the collected officers of the Social Media Commissariat … sorry Club, this evening.
To cut his talk short, he’d been thinking about the parallels between the birth of social media and the birth of print itself, as described in Elizabeth Eisenstein’s The printing press as [...]

Clients in the Wild

Just struck me, in a not-entirely-artificial way, that if you are interested in PR and the Web, as per the last post, then you ought to come to the event we’ve organised at NMK on Tuesday next week (20/11/07), ‘Clients in the Wild‘. There are about ten tickets left at this point, I understand. Click [...]