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October 2007 - Posts
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Is the party over? Steve Rubel reckons it is and we are all skunk drunk on our own Kool-Aid.
Has the magic gone? Sadly, it seems to be the case for possibly soon to be ex-blogger The Friendly Ghost (or Brendan as we can now call him). Read More
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According to Dave Hatch, a Research Director at Aberdeen Group, three of the top four marketers' priorities are to do with justifying their existence inside their own business, not whipping the competition outside in the marketplace. Even those Read More
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Mashable's list of top US election resources, reminded me of some thoughts I had on the subject of politics and online when I was in the US last week.
First, I was amazed how much media bandwidth the whole topic was already consuming, despite Read More
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Pinsent Mason's legal newswire, OUT-LAW News has a story on upcoming Italian legislation covering "editorial products", that may require bloggers to register with the government simply to publish a private blog.
I suspect the keyword is *may*. One has Read More
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I don't why I find this snippet interesting.
The Raw Story runs a story on the cost a wiretap, or telephone tap to us Brits.
Comcast will fix a wiretap for you at $1,000 to install, then its $750 a month to keep on eavesdropping. Not a bad margin Read More
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Back from Seattle.
I was going to post about the impact a windy day can have in the rufty tufty Pacific Northwest (too much of that nature nearby, I guess). But that seems churlish, when I now know that London's main airport needs two hours Read More
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Great story in the Seattle PI on getting from scratch to an internet startup in under seven hours.
And just $30 in direct costs. That covers a url and a couple of hours snack fuel for the development team.
The essence of the story is that lean, nimble development Read More
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If the concept of a floating bridge doesn't quite tally for you, then the idea of being on a floating bridge in 50 mph winds definitely doesn't appeal. Seattle's 520 floating bridge hasn't quite been closed yet but commuters have had to pick their way Read More
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Have arrived in Seattle. Bellevue in fact.
Our New York offsite was a game of two halves.
The first half - the chilled part pictured below - was in a Central Park bathed in sunshine and involved a hitech scavenger hunt. Some days at work are really arduous. Read More
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here.
This amuses me.
Not for profit PR campaign. I hope that word doesn't get out this is our specialization.
They have also been shortlisted by Computing for its annual awards in the PR company of the year category. Admittedly, its Read More
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En route to Heathrow this morning the sun was shining and all was well in middle England. The usual crew of Sunday afternoon business travellers to the US had a spring in their step. For another week their dream lives on. I even saw Read More
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A naive question I know, but interesting to read that Richard Holway - formerly of Ovum and the eponymously named Richard Holway Ltd - now regards himself as an influencer not an analyst. And that he aspires to be a trusted influencer.
I've paid Read More
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Something a bit strange about following the wise words of Forrester's marketing team blog over many months, and then finding someone from a PR agency - Chris Thilk of MWW - suddenly joining the conversation on the site.
All completely transparent Read More
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Every now and again stir up PR agencies (preferably on a Friday afternoon).
Then sit back and watch the response.
Tags: Tom Foremski, PR is dead (again) Read More
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Google just bought Jaiku. Scoble reckons its a giant leap for Google who are prepping the next wave in social media. The comments thread on Scoble's article provides a nice snapshot of sentiment around different social network sites and tools.
Next wave? Read More
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CIO has a story on the rebranding of a new MSDN blog from hackers @ Microsoft to the slightly less catchy %41%43%45%20%54%65%61%6d (if you do security, you'll get it, apparently).
Aside from raising some thoughts on the nature of branding Read More
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Nielsen completed a global survey - 26,000+ consumers in 47 markets - which has confirmed that consumers place the greatest trust in... recommendations from other consumers. Well, we all knew that, but its good to have some more confirmation.
More interesting Read More
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Is there something a little bit too direct about this Datamonitor email pitch to clients and prospects?
What would the company accountants say?
Then again the discounts are good, sign up for yours here. Read More
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Right now, visualization techniques and tools are areas where we are investing time. I was planning to post on this, and then everyone else beat me to it...
Charles Arthur has taken a look at this subject in his Guardian techblog
Charles also Read More
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