Quick report from last Friday’s Fuel conference. It was a well-planned day which I thoroughly enjoyed, so well done to Ryan, Keir and the Carsonified team. It was also good to meet up again with a couple of fellow bloggers. Andrew from Imagination has written already about the attention to detail shown in the design [...]
Tag Archives: social media
A Last Note on the Carphone Warehouse Incident
May 24, 2008 – 5:06 pm
If you need the history - I had a big problem with the company (blogged here), which was resolved the day after I wrote a post about it on this site (blogged here).
A lot of people might see this as a victory for blogs and bloggers. I’d agree, sure. But, on reflection, I think it’s [...]
25/M/S or Maybe Not
February 8, 2008 – 4:41 pm
via Richard Sambrook and David Brain, here’s a great presentation from the Lift conference, given by Genevieve Bell, who works as an anthropologist at Intel:
It’s about how we all lie online in terms of the way we present ourselves, or rather, that we’ve been lying about ourselves for an awful long time - how we [...]
The Kids are Alright
December 4, 2006 – 9:11 pm
Being old and weary, I have to use blogs like the excellent Ypulse to find out what the beautiful people are into nowadays. The only hip I ever get close to is a hip operation. Today, it points me towards this press release from the American Marketing Association. It’s not all good news for brands [...]
What I Learned About Word of Mouth
December 1, 2006 – 7:24 pm
Thanks to Simon from Green for sorting me out a press pass to Word of Mouth Communications. A very interesting day which I thoroughly recommend the next time it comes around. I’m going to write about three cough… two of the presentations in three … two posts, to keep me stocked up with new material [...]
Out of Touch or Moral Guardian?
November 25, 2006 – 2:34 pm
Chris Riley has come up with a great idea for tracking exactly how in touch the BBC website is with its readers. His BBC Touch site compares the top ten headlines on the BBC News front page against their popularity - the news that was actually read.
This brief sample shows that we’re a bit more [...]
Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Britain
November 24, 2006 – 3:35 pm
A new report into customer engagement produced by e-consultancy reveals that UK firms are likely to significantly deepen their commitment to Web 2.0 technologies over coming months. The authors, who polled 800 internet and customer experience professionals to obtain the results, found that:
42% are planning to apply user-generated content (UGC) to their websites in the [...]
Not So Lonely
November 23, 2006 – 5:02 pm
The new Wired has a great feature about the lonelygirl15 story. Lonelygirl15, you will remember, was a hit YouTube vlog about a teenage girl, her family and her ambiguous relationship with her friend Daniel. You’ll also recall that the central character, Bree, turned out to be an actress called Jessica Rose, working with a guy [...]
Proof YouTube is Good for TV
November 22, 2006 – 11:43 am
It’s always been obvious that watching 5-minute segments of TV programmes on YouTube is likely to increase people’s desire to watch the real thing. Pete Cashmore reports that yesterday, some proof has emerged. US TV network CBS has announced that viewer figures have risen considerably since striking a deal to create their own channel on [...]
Pretty Infographic; No Substance
September 29, 2006 – 6:13 pm
Research outfit InStat has produced a press release relating to a new report. The release, which was promoted to the digg home page, says that:
User-Generated Content (UGC), such as that found on YouTube and MySpace, will continue to grow significantly in popularity and generate increasing revenue over the next several years, reports In-Stat (http://www.in-stat.com). By [...]
