Rachel Clarke introduced me to Christian Payne who had the idea of hosting the first Geek festival. I have been running the Vann Summer Fest in a field behind my mum's house for the past 7 years with Grant Craies, William Heath, Ruth Kennedy, Al Kennedy and Aliya Saleem. We have agreed to bolt Geeknbury [...]
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Everyone’s heard of Management Consultant Bingo – but since it’s Friday, have some fun and make up new corporate-talk phrases yourself with the “Web Economy Bullshit Generator “. just type in some phrase from your latest strategy review document like ‘extend scalable supply-chains’ and hit the Make Bullshit button! again and again…it keeps finding new [...]
I received a quesiton from a Business development Director of a well-known identity and branding agency who works with social enterprise and government organisations. We don’t use outside consultants, but the ‘Enterprise 2.0’ is an area of interest. Most agencies seem to be setting up blogs as a way of presenting the agency culture and [...]
Many thanks to Mireira Fontbernat from Qik who has uploaded video of the three speakers this morning (and a little bit of me doing introductions). Bloggers reactions: FreshNetworks' Helen Trim Charlie Robertson of Red Spider Quentin Boyes of Honeycomb Software Sadly the one of Andrew Howells of Zype didn't come out…. darn phone reception. Bookmark [...]
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Nice story fron the BBC with a suggestion that readers get involved in desiging the 'mascot' for the Olymnpics. Including how to avoid gaffes like Atlanta and the london logo…. Great idea. Not really social media but definitely community participation…. But I HATE mascots. Why else would people buy a souvenir if there wasnt a [...]
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Thanks to Nico Macdonald for inviting me to chair two sessions at his Media Futures Conference next week. I am going to be up there with Alex McKie and the guys from Plot…. Wicked! 11.00: Research in the real world – Alex McKie 11:30: Meet the people formerly known as… users – Gill [...]
THe good just got really great. sending unsolicited and inappropriate marketing messages has always been close to what we now call spam. In the blogosphere, this direct approach without first establishing an online relationship and credentials / rights is considered more invasive and inappropriate than in the offline or email-only world. Bloggers are very [...]
I have written before about ways and means of doing this for yourself. the simplest method is a Google Alert for your brand name (and any obvious mis-spellings). But have a look at these alternatives Bloppy Co.mments Bloppy juust tracks web posts and comments Tired of losing track of the comments you wrote on blogs [...]
In case any of you are interested in this genre, there's a one day seminar happening about my ancestor, WD Caroe. We are celebrating the 100 years the Caroes have been at Vann this year. I do hope that this event may be of interest to you or yours friends and colleagues. Do pass this [...]
I am hosting my third breakfast event. "Should Brands be Broadcasters?" on Wednesday 18th June, 2008 at One Alfred Place I run these breakfasts in order to showcase new ideas and innovative marketing thinking. Past speakers include Adriana Lukas on Social Media and Mark McGuinnes s on the Enneagram. Three speakers will give their unique [...]
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