March 2008 - Posts

• Guardian hires a head for its developer program from Yahoo!

  The Guardian News & Media has recruited Matt McAlister from Yahoo! to run a developer program for it. I couldn't have seen myself writing that sentence two years ago. According to the announcement: McAlister will be taking up the Read More   Digg this |   Add to del.icio.us |   Post to reddit |   Add to facebook |   Add to StumbleUpon |   TwitThis posted 28 March 2008 12:58 by Steve | 0 Comments Filed Under: Media, Communities

• Is the Phorm Storm the next Dell Hell case study?

  Having glibly introduced the subject of Phorm in the previous post, I spent a little longer looking at the storm brewing around it. Its interesting on a number of levels. Phorm looks to be following Dell's well trodden path to online purgatory. Of course, Read More   Digg this |   Add to del.icio.us |   Post to reddit |   Add to facebook |   Add to StumbleUpon |   TwitThis posted 20 March 2008 17:11 by Steve | 0 Comments Filed Under: Blogging, Customer Advocacy, PR, Random, Trust & Ethics

• Bad Boy PR: is notoriety a PR strategy?

  I'd never heard of Phorm until it got embroiled in the broader debate about control of personal data derived from web usage. I had even listened to a Tim Berners Lee interview on this topic where, reportedly, he was obliquely criticizing Phorm but Read More   Digg this |   Add to del.icio.us |   Post to reddit |   Add to facebook |   Add to StumbleUpon |   TwitThis posted 20 March 2008 15:46 by Steve | 0 Comments Filed Under: PR, Random

• UK launch with Virtual Launch Experience

  Following on from the US launch for three of Microsoft's major products in 2008. Today is the big day for the UK launch up at the NEC in Birmingham. Ballmer should be just about through his keynote by now. As with the US launch, the Virtual Read More   Digg this |   Add to del.icio.us |   Post to reddit |   Add to facebook |   Add to StumbleUpon |   TwitThis posted 19 March 2008 10:45 by Steve | 1 Comments Filed Under: Marketing

• The Future is Interactive, Not Online

  Steve Rubel recently commented that The Future is Web Services, Not Web Sites. He's right but that's not the point of this post. His headline helped me draw together a couple of related thoughts. Namely, that The Future is Interactive, Not Online. Read More   Digg this |   Add to del.icio.us |   Post to reddit |   Add to facebook |   Add to StumbleUpon |   TwitThis posted 17 March 2008 17:32 by Steve | 2 Comments Filed Under: Marketing, Media, Technology, Social

• Metia in free WiFi and Latte tie up for customers at Starbucks

  OK, so that's a deliberately misleading headline. But Steve's post on how to find free Wifi in London via the Londonist's Google Maps based site came hot on the heels of discovering our own client Wifi reaches into the Starbucks branch alongside Read More   Digg this |   Add to del.icio.us |   Post to reddit |   Add to facebook |   Add to StumbleUpon |   TwitThis posted 15 March 2008 00:13 by Steve | 0 Comments Filed Under: Technology

• What does 'off the record' actually mean?

  Its one of those questions that every PR gets asked by their client. Novices will bluster something about journalistic scruples and confidentiality. Veterans will advise that there is no such thing as off the record. But the question keeps coming Read More   Digg this |   Add to del.icio.us |   Post to reddit |   Add to facebook |   Add to StumbleUpon |   TwitThis posted 14 March 2008 23:34 by Steve | 1 Comments Filed Under: PR, Trust & Ethics

• AR professionals must use transparency as their weapon of choice

  Jonny points me at a post on the IIAR blog on codes of ethics among analyst groups. In it is a link to this story from HP's AR team. To paraphrase HP's post, they have issues with a product review from an analyst group that rates a competitor's Read More   Digg this |   Add to del.icio.us |   Post to reddit |   Add to facebook |   Add to StumbleUpon |   TwitThis posted 11 March 2008 18:21 by Steve | 2 Comments Filed Under: Trust & Ethics, Analyst relations

• Obviously a different Jonny B...?

  The Observer posted a list of the World's 50 Most Powerful Blogs. Most lists/tables of blogs leave me a bit cold but the pen portraits here are great and prompted me to widen my reading. Interesting thoughts: How many were written/started by Brits. Read More   Digg this |   Add to del.icio.us |   Post to reddit |   Add to facebook |   Add to StumbleUpon |   TwitThis posted 10 March 2008 08:49 by Steve | 4 Comments Filed Under: Blogging, Media

• More thoughts on professional communities

  Last week I posted on the power of the niche in building community among professionals in vertical industries but at the time I missed this post from Richard Holway. It covers some of the same territory and also flags that the FT is planning to launch Read More   Digg this |   Add to del.icio.us |   Post to reddit |   Add to facebook |   Add to StumbleUpon |   TwitThis posted 06 March 2008 18:03 by Steve | 2 Comments Filed Under: Blogging, Marketing