I was very touched this week to read that Doc Searls and Don Peppers have started a dialogue about how the CRM (customer relationship management) school of business thinking has developed towards the new challenging VRM (vendor relationship management) mode of operation. Doc kindly credited me with making the introduction and amplified on an earlier [...]
Image via Wikipedia A letter in the Independent newspaper caught my eye. This is the best political journalism I’ve read and so it is worth reproducing in full. Mr Payne of Lincoln – we salute you. It is said that history repeats itself, the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce. Once upon [...]
Seems this is the new hot trend – ways of mashing up data and re-uysing it with very simple tools; we like simple. A host of self-published daily ‘newspapers’ from Paper.li – here’s Pro Blogger’s one [but I hate the auto tweets the service generates] New service from Curated By to create lists of tweets [...]
A white paper has long been seen as a ‘serious’ way for a B2B business to position itself as a thought leader in its niche. Reading an Economist article recently about the glut of white papers (and my comment) being produced by management consultancies under the guise of research and new thinking, made me reflect [...]
As a Dunedin Resident I’ve been watching with interest the work the Council is doing on re-branding the city. At a Business After Five event in June, I saw the first slides from the team responsible for the underlying research that will be used going forwards. It was good work but poorly presented – two [...]
Here are the new readers this week – Thank you all for continuing to visit and read. Agencies Progressive Capitol, fundraising agency, Washington DC, USA Blue Barracuda, digital agency, London UK AdPepper.com, online advertising, London UK Strata UK, full service communications agency, Kent, UK Total Media, media planning and buying, London and Solihull, UK Brands [...]






