April 10, 2007

Putting People First blog posted about a survey that strategy consultancy McKinsey just conducted with executives about Web 2.0 technologies. Although they found significant interest, execs still shy away from blogs.

September 26, 2006

I had heard a week ago from the blog of Shel Holtz (of For Immediate Release fame) that a PR agency called Text100 had set up an office in SecondLife, and my immediate reaction was somewhat ambivalent....

September 14, 2006

A few days ago I wrote about Lonelygirl15 and how it had been discovered that she was not an angst-ridden teenager, but a figment of some filmmaker's imagination....

August 14, 2006

If you are responsible for the creative output of a marketing department or an agency, then this post is for you....

August 2, 2006

I just came back from a trip to San Francisco. Apart from having a great time, I discovered a new social media site that just blew my mind and blows the competition away....

July 24, 2006

Less well-known current.tv is like YouTube in the way that flickr is like photobucket....

July 21, 2006

Check out these Web 2.0 references....(seriously, guys, you are not helping).... : )

July 13, 2006

The most dangerous thing about social media for "big business" is that its influence is barely noticeable on traditional measurement systems....

July 11, 2006

The obligitory "sign-up form" is probably one of the most overlooked opportunities in the entire customer experience lifecycle, the red-headed stepchild of touchpoints, if you will....

July 7, 2006

Iain at Morrison Macmillan just picked up on a previous post of mine that was, tongue in cheek, titled "YouTube Bigger Than Jesus"....

July 3, 2006

I love this story and hope I'm not the last person in the world to blog about it, I would hate to become totally redundant....

June 29, 2006

Not really, I'm just reading into it....

June 28, 2006

Not really, I'm just reading into this statement by the Worldwide Chief Creative Officer of one of the world's largest advertising agencies (Mark Tutssel of Leo Burnett)....

June 27, 2006

Lots of us here are proponents of the "new" marketing order, the conversational marketing, the social-media marketing, the subversive marketing....

June 22, 2006

Oscar Wilde once said...

June 19, 2006

June 23rd will be Second Lifes 3rd birthday, and finally Second Life seems to be gaining traction in the marketplace of ideas. More importantly (for its financial viability), it's starting to gain the attention of businesses....

June 14, 2006

Many companies would have you believe that a "multi channel customer experience" means you make your "content" or "applications" available to all a customers devices...

Ok, I've been biting my tongue about the world cup and the advertising dollars that seem to be getting flushed down the drain (Budweiser? Sponsoring the World Cup? In Germany?)....

June 7, 2006

One of the often-overlooked parts of the Customer Lifecycle is the point at which a customer opens the box....

One of the often-overlooked parts of the Customer Lifecycle is the point at which a customer opens the box....

Three podcasts to pay attention to: Managing the Grey is hosted by C.C. Chapman, the Digital Marketing Manager at Babson College...

Three podcasts to pay attention to: Managing the Grey is hosted by C.C. Chapman, the Digital Marketing Manager at Babson College...

June 5, 2006

It's funny, but even though Web 2.0 is argued by many to be meaningless hyperbole, designed to extract money from VCs...

It's funny, but even though Web 2.0 is argued by many to be meaningless hyperbole, designed to extract money from VCs...

June 1, 2006

Is the Web really moving so fast that the recently bold innovative, interactive marketers are now the "traditional" media...?

Is the Web really moving so fast that the recently bold innovative, interactive marketers are now the "traditional" media...?

May 25, 2006

This is from my daily t-shirt blog, tcritic but it's also a wonderful example of a business concept...

May 17, 2006

Threadless.com is a T-Shirt company and it has some of the coolest, most beautiful, original T-Shirts I've ever seen....

May 11, 2006

Although most people think Technorati is a blog search engine, it isn't...

Although most people think Technorati is a blog search engine, it isn't...

May 8, 2006

Tekserve is the mecca of broken Macs in Manhattan....

Tekserve is the mecca of broken Macs in Manhattan....

April 28, 2006

Now I'm a huge fan of Starbucks. I love a good latte and have in the past been a daily "user"....

April 21, 2006

Sony, Microsoft and most big game publishers continue to aim squarely at the traditional "gamer" demographic of boys 18-35 with games that involve shooting, driving, and a healthy dose of "T&A"....

Sony, Microsoft and most big game publishers continue to aim squarely at the traditional "gamer" demographic of boys 18-35 with games that involve shooting, driving, and a healthy dose of "T&A"....

April 17, 2006

Isn't micromarketing just marketing but smaller and targeting fewer people? Short answer no...

Isn't micromarketing just marketing but smaller and targeting fewer people? Short answer no...

April 12, 2006

Carnival of "X" is a recent meme in the blogosphere that is essentially a group of topical blogs taking turns, on a weekly basis, identifying and aggregating the "best of the best" of blog posts on a particular topic....

Carnival of "X" is a recent meme in the blogosphere that is essentially a group of topical blogs taking turns, on a weekly basis, identifying and aggregating the "best of the best" of blog posts on a particular topic....

April 10, 2006

Blogging isn't easy. Setting up a blog is easy, but the actual writing requires a certain level of effort, creativity and the ability to filter and grok an unending torrent of information....