a nice little interview summary from #Amp08 Three questions 1: What’s good about the event today? 2: What’s bad or the downside about this event? 3: What would you like to see happening in the future?  Nicely put together by Penny Jackson Thanks to Carl Jeffrey for letting me know they were up!








Was browsing around the Jiglu website and decided to actually read the terms and conditions of service docuemtns. What a surprisse.  Written in normal language with careful explanations about how they will and won't serve you and use your information.  Here's an extract. We are very conscious that most people are asked to click on [...]








One of my clients just got their very first email newsletter from a supplier.  Oh my goodness, it is so DULL.  Here's the opening paragraphs Welcome to the first edition of XYZ's Connections e-Newsletter, designed to provide timely information and tools to help your business run more efficiently. The cornerstone of our first issue is [...]








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. 








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 [...]








I have been given sight of the Forrester report "The Connected Agency " Feb 8th 2008.  And it spells gloom and death for the current traditional agency business model. Definition of a CA is An agency with a deep understanding of consumer communities, helping brands create and nurture connections, deliver targeted, on-demand messages, and network [...]








(or five huge egos at one table….) Chris Heuer   Partner,   The Conversation Group Tara Hunt   Co-Founder,   Citizen Agency Jeremiah Owyang  Forrester Deborah Schultz   Founder/Chief Catalyst,   deborahschultz.com David Parmet   Owner,   Marketing Begins At Home LLC Hugh MacLeod   Grand Pooh-Bah,   gapingvoid.com How to market into community without appearing totally overbearing? How do you build the community around [...]








[I only caught the end of this talk because I got lost trying to find a way up to the 4th level from the 3rd (don't ask it really did happen!) and Dierdre Walsh was sitting by the door and sent me her notes. Cheers, Dierdre] Overview: Marketers can no longer interrupt users with advertisements [...]








Key learning: Community is Grown not built. “building community” is for architects not online. Read the wisdom of crowds. And build the tools people can use and trust them to use appropriately. You may remember Fray from very old web. Derek started it in 1996 as a live story telling site. Each story ended with [...]








Had a fantastic evening (I always do) at the BIMA dinner “The future for PR in a digital World” with Jamie Galloway, Director of Digital Media, from COI speaking. I took a couple of clients Hugh Birley from Lexis and Lorraine Jenkins from Wildfire PR (sadly got blown out last minute by Mat Morrison). We [...]