Two items appearing in my Google Reader subscriptions almost led to me exclaiming WTF? on a crowded Monday morning commuter train. (Post now updated due to more info – see below)
First up was the strange experience of seeing Michael Arrington and Techcrunch complain about someone posting a video of the Crunchpad which ‘was not a [...]
Techcrunch and Microsoft: Two WTF? moments…
June 15th, 2009 · Comments
Tags: Digital Culture
How Coke and Pepsi are wasting their online strategy
November 28th, 2008 · Comments
I have to admit that as a non-coffee drinker, I’m pretty addicted to caffeinated soft drinks. To the point where I’ve just shocked myself by working out that, in conjunction with my partner, we spend about £957 per year just on Coke or Pepsi! The fact that I can happily switch between the two main [...]
Tags: Uncategorized · social media marketing
Am I evil? The dark side of the web…
July 14th, 2008 · Comments
It’s apparently easy to be seduced by the dark side when it comes to blogging, and I never even realised it had happened.
At some point, an arbitrary line was drawn as a hang up from traditional media. The great and good subconsciously set the ethics of blogging around ‘quality’ content, a lack of advertising, and [...]
Tags: Blogging
Solve one problem to justify social media marketing to any boss
May 14th, 2008 · Comments
There’s just one problem which requires solving to finally put social media/buzz/community marketing people in a position to easily justify investment and resource.
We can all measure the splash of a promotion dropping into our worlds.
But what we need to do is be able to measure the quality and quantity of every ripple it makes, and [...]
Tags: business · social media marketing

