February 2008 - Posts

• The tyranny of always being online

  A colleague forwarded me this Out of Office message... Thank you for your message.I, however, am attending a funeral on Friday, with, shall we say, rather limited network access. For quick assistance nonetheless, please text (SMS) me on... Despite Read More   Digg this |   Add to del.icio.us |   Post to reddit |   Add to facebook |   Add to StumbleUpon |   TwitThis posted 22 February 2008 23:58 by Steve Ellis | 1 Comments Filed Under: Random

• Wikis: amazingly easy and useful

  I don't think it's a stretch to say that blogging, once considered so strange and scary and geeky in a business context, has finally joined the mainstream in corporate communications. Wikis, though...no, those are too strange, too scary, too geeky Read More   Digg this |   Add to del.icio.us |   Post to reddit |   Add to facebook |   Add to StumbleUpon |   TwitThis posted 21 February 2008 14:18 by Wade Rockett | 2 Comments

• BusinessWeek revisits its views on blogging

  BusinessWeek has revisited a post from 2005, Blogs Will Change Your Business. It has now, of course, become, Social Media Will Change Your Business. The gist remains the same though: you have to get involved, so overcome your cynicism and get Read More   Digg this |   Add to del.icio.us |   Post to reddit |   Add to facebook |   Add to StumbleUpon |   TwitThis posted 21 February 2008 14:01 by Steve Ellis | 0 Comments

• Video evidence doesn't work

  This is according to Intel's Chief Reference Office Rhett Livengood. Read More   Digg this |   Add to del.icio.us |   Post to reddit |   Add to facebook |   Add to StumbleUpon |   TwitThis posted 19 February 2008 20:57 by Andrew Martin | 0 Comments

• Sales outlaw's apply here

  As Steve mentioned I’m at the Customer Reference Forum this week and will be presenting later on for newcomers to reference management about the infrastructure required to manage an effective program. This morning I was thinking about a theme to base Read More   Digg this |   Add to del.icio.us |   Post to reddit |   Add to facebook |   Add to StumbleUpon |   TwitThis posted 19 February 2008 14:01 by Andrew Martin | 0 Comments

• Forrester's Big Idea - the Connected Agency - comments #2

  Having commented on the first question raised by Forrester's recent Big Idea - the Connected Agency - in this post I'll whizz more quickly through the second. So what about: agencies getting it about social media? Well yes I'd have to agree with Read More   Digg this |   Add to del.icio.us |   Post to reddit |   Add to facebook |   Add to StumbleUpon |   TwitThis posted 15 February 2008 22:17 by Steve Ellis | 0 Comments

• Parnassus offers free Webinar on participating in online conversations

  Teresa Valdez Klein of Parnassus Group will be giving a free Webinar entitled "Locating and Participating in the Online Conversations that Matter" at 10:00 a.m. PST on February 19th, with an encore presentation the following day at the same time. The Read More   Digg this |   Add to del.icio.us |   Post to reddit |   Add to facebook |   Add to StumbleUpon |   TwitThis posted 15 February 2008 11:38 by Wade Rockett | 0 Comments

• Forrester's Big Idea - the Connected Agency - comments #1

  Last week Forrester published a new Big Idea on the Connected Agency. Their exec overview of the Big Idea is: Today's agencies fail to help marketers engage with consumers, who, as a result, are becoming less brand-loyal and more trusting of Read More   Digg this |   Add to del.icio.us |   Post to reddit |   Add to facebook |   Add to StumbleUpon |   TwitThis posted 14 February 2008 14:52 by Steve Ellis | 2 Comments

• Does your corporation have a Chief Reference Officer?

  I can't make it to Bill Lee's Customer Reference Forum 2008 next week in Berkeley - a heavily pregnant wife means getting on a plane to the West Coast isn't sensible. Which is a shame because it's a great event and I always enjoy it. My colleagues Read More   Digg this |   Add to del.icio.us |   Post to reddit |   Add to facebook |   Add to StumbleUpon |   TwitThis posted 14 February 2008 00:34 by Steve Ellis | 1 Comments

• Problem? Speak to the CEO

  This BusinessWeek article relates that Jason Knight, CEO of web start up Wesabe is available to speak to customers for four hours every day. He gets three or four calls a day directed from a link on the Wesabe home page. That's from a user base of 100,000 Read More   Digg this |   Add to del.icio.us |   Post to reddit |   Add to facebook |   Add to StumbleUpon |   TwitThis posted 12 February 2008 18:04 by Admin | 0 Comments

• Google and Twitter mash Super Tuesday live

  Google Maps linked with Twitter to bring you Super Tuesday 'live' with dynamic news updates and personal tweets from across the country. Effectively, this created a one night national network of local citizen commentators, limited in numbers only Read More   Digg this |   Add to del.icio.us |   Post to reddit |   Add to facebook |   Add to StumbleUpon |   TwitThis posted 06 February 2008 11:03 by Steve Ellis | 0 Comments

• Google releases Social Graph API

  Google's Social Graph API aims to automatically map the relationships between 'friends'. According to a Blogoscoped report, Google are claiming to crawl publicly available data on social networks or blogs (blogrolls and friend lists) which can Read More   Digg this |   Add to del.icio.us |   Post to reddit |   Add to facebook |   Add to StumbleUpon |   TwitThis posted 04 February 2008 15:59 by Steve Ellis | 0 Comments

• RIP Jeremy Beadle: father of Consumer Generated Content

  Jeremy Beadle died of Leukaemia this week. The sub head of his obituary in the Independent was: Loved and Loathed TV Prankster. Which is both a blunt and accurate statement for his obituary. I can't honestly say I was one of his fans. Read More   Digg this |   Add to del.icio.us |   Post to reddit |   Add to facebook |   Add to StumbleUpon |   TwitThis posted 02 February 2008 00:17 by Steve Ellis | 0 Comments