Category archive: Personal

Wednesday, July 12, 2006

Commission Junction University

I spent more than 12 hours at ValueClick‘s Commission Junction University event today, watching loads of presentations and talking about blogs, RSS, and social media for around 15 minutes. I need to process my notes and write properly about the event (not to mention sleep off the champagne I had during the last couple of hours of CJU...), but I want immediately to thank Alison Guise and Tina Judic for bringing me in to take part in CJU. Big thanks also to Susan Kingston for introducing me to Alison, Tina, Gary Goodman, Carl White, Steve Winterhalter, Ben Kopetti, and other enthusiastic, clever people from the ValueClick group of companies.

Pictures from CJU - which I will finish tagging and organising after some kip - are already on Flickr. More tomorrow…

Tuesday, June 20, 2006

What MySpace Means - tomorrow

Many apologies for the dearth of posts here over the last few weeks. I have been quite busy travelling to Silicon Valley, pitching in with various conferences, and planning the Engagement Alliance’s first event. It’s all happening tomorrow from 2PM - 6PM at the Charlotte Street Hotel in London; for all the details, including the last couple of months’ worth of blog posts leading up to the event, please check out What MySpace Means: Lessons for Every Brand.

Thursday, May 25, 2006

One year of Communities Dominate Brands

Alan Moore and Tomi Ahonen, both founding members of the Engagement Alliance’s advisory board, are today celebrating the one year anniversary of their blog, Communities Dominate Brands. It was originally established as the online counterpart to their critically acclaimed book of the same name, but - as Tomi explains - has come to mean so much more to them.

A year ago we thought that we should try to get one or two postings per week to make sure this site remains active. We didn’t know how important this site would become to us, professionally and personally, as a vehicle for expressing our passion to a changing media, technology, and to economic and social worlds.

Congratulations, guys, on a significant milestone for an information-rich, expertise blog. Next time we meet up, the shandies are on me! 

Monday, May 22, 2006

United Airlines

United Airlines sure does put the “Kill me now” in customer service. I had my own run-in with United’s inept, apathetic staff back in March, but that’s nothing compared to what happened to my friend Nancy Rommelmann (linked above).

Monday, May 01, 2006

Social media is changing us - and the world - for the better

You know, one blog post isn’t enough to cover all the ways in which that title is true. But for now:

Certain people seemed to be very concerned with blogging and social media being ‘overhyped’. I think the only problem is inappropriate hype ("Blogging will bring our politicians into touch with the People!").

I don’t think people have actually grasped the extent to which social media is changing, and will continue to change, humanity.

"Social media is changing us - and the world - for the better" continued...