The development of online money-making by bloggers and early-adopter affiliate marketers has progressed from stage one – write stuff and hang adverts around it; to stage two – use affiliates to promote it on your behalf and is now moving into a third stage.
Building closed spaces where you can pay a bit to get into [...]
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I wanted to start this post with a flow diagram t hat resonated with me so much that I immediately sent it to my Mother. I’ve been doing ‘tech support’ for my family for years, and for Geoff and, and, and. I expect you’ve been doing it too.
But although funny, truthful and nicely wry, the [...]
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The Clutrain Manifesto was a significant moment in future-gazing for a world that is now very clearly with us.
The authors have re-published the book with some additional chapters by themselves and another luminary, JP . Which will be great and some added thought-provoking chapters to digest.
What was so great about Cluetrain? It [...]
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I have written about new business models and new ways of working and earning in the new economy. Now Dougald Hine who I met earlier this year has started a new project specifically to write and consult on the wittily-named "Collapsonomics ". Here's the definition
collapsonomics, n.
1. The study of economic and state systems at [...]
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Well a major brand is rocking the OTL boat – Coke 'suggests' that agencies get rewarded based on value .
Traditionally, defining the value of an assignment has been the job of the agency, which tells its client how many people and how much time it'll need to accomplish a given project. Under its [...]
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Iwent to Lloyd Davies' first prototyping meeting for Tuttle a while back. Well he's written his first 'annual' report' on the state of the group so far. Tuttle Annual Report 2009
And it reads very well.
I'd like to extract some fine quostations that iillustrate what it does and why its so 'of the [...]
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