Yesterday I got a piece of personally targetted direct mail with a proposition specific to my business. Nothing unusual there. But it was sent to me at my home address. In fact the whole creative angle was trading on how clever the sender was to Read More

                    I was invited along to the Dachis Group's Social Business Summit 2010 held in Austin on the eve of SXSW. Jeff Dachis had gathered a great ensemble of speakers - including Read More

Two contenders are jostling for the title of Most Out of Touch Organization on the Planet this week: Chrysler - its senior execs have been happy to manufacture hulking dinosaur vehicles for decades, trousering huge pay packets and flying the world in Read More

If it was April 1st I'd know not to comment on SpinSpotter - but it seems to be a genuine story I found via ReadWriteWeb. Apparently, we are suffering from a 'spin epidemic' and SpinSpotter, together with the efforts of the Truth Mongers and Spin Destroyers Read More

A flurry of stories on the issues around managing social media participation for employers and, by default I guess, employees too: BL Ochman - Does Your Company Have a Social Media Participation Policy? News of the boys in blue and their special interest Read More

Piece here on Mashable about the use of Twitter for marketing. Nothing remarkable in that, there's lots of marketing taking place on Twitter, a little by companies promoting themselves or looking for leads or insight, but far more by Twitterers selling Read More

Our own government in the UK simply has the wherewithal to lose huge volumes of its citizens' personal data (current location, we know not where). And only using CDs via pigeon post too, so no points for technical innovation even.  But hats Read More

I'm just back from holiday but luckily I see Charles Arthur at the Guardian published a great summary of the latest news on Phorm, which I aimed to track before a week of skiing took precedence. Aside from the ins and outs of the financials, and the Read More