CNN + Facebook = Future TV

This was a fantastic partnership and a brilliant way to join up social media and TV. Being able to ‘tweet’ to my mates via FB certainly improved my inauguration viewing experience! And this could’ve been a good sponsorship from Vestas, but I’ll have negative correllations with them because of the pre-roll.  The video stream was [...]

Is Blogging Still Word of Mouth on Steroids?

As part of an initiative that’s just begun at work, I’ve begun to regularly to read and review books related to marketing, the Internet and PR. I’m currently in the midst of reading Naked Conversations by Robert Scoble and Shel Israel and although it was published in mid-2006, it still makes for fascinating and relevant reading. [...]

Becoming Internet Famous

In my zeal to ‘raise my external profile’ (yes, I realise how completely wanky that sounds – bear with me), I’ve been reading a lot about Internet memes and the ‘Internet Famous‘. We all know about the ‘Leave Britney Alone’ guy, Lolcats and notorious operators like Julia Allison and her Non-Society crew, but what if [...]

I heart Muxtape, but it’s been shut down!

This really gets my goat. Muxtape is a great service that lets users create their own virtual mixtape and share with their friends. I’d previously enthused about how great Muxtape was – it completely embodied the often anarchiac DIY ethos of the Internet and fit in with the idea of giving consumers what they wanted, [...]

Me As A Brand

I recently had my yearly appraisal and while not a hugely exciting event, one of the many objectives I was given really got me thinking. After being told I needed to raise my external profile but not really given any direction on how to do this, I spent a lot of time pondering and looking [...]

The future is indeed bright

This is a great way of visually communicating the massive changes in the way the generations communicate and demonstrates how important age is when putting together a communications plan. How Baby Boomers (45-65 year old Adults with UK marketing speak) communicated:

I heart Muxtape

I’ve just discovered Muxtape through the Twitterati and even through I’m still having a play around with it, so far, so cool.

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