A virtual world
Long-held precepts of Big and Small have been at the heart of conventional business wisdom since the industrial revolution. The more a company has on its balance sheet and the greater the scale of its...
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Barclays and Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) and a number of other firms are currently fighting it out to buy Dutch banking group ABN Amro for around £45 billion. A successful bid could end up being the...
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CouchSurfingAn interesting example of the internet’s geography of passion. A hybrid physical/virtual community where people track down likeminded individuals across the world, creating greater common...
View ArticleThe geography of passion
The internet is a different kind of social space in which our common interests are the things that connect us rather than physical proximity. Online it’s less important where we are or where we come...
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The wisdom of clouds
Leading blog search-engine Technorati has just re-designed its home page. Founder and CEO Dave Sifry explains that the new layout is based on “using the wisdom of crowds as a mirror on ourselves”.What...
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Do the Green Thing
I've been a bad, bad blogger. Sorry. By way of explanation, I've started a new kind of Small-Big public service called Green Thing (Dothegreenthing.com) which has been keeping me busy. Green Thing is...
View ArticleSocial Media Beachcombing - Survival Of The Twittest?
Here's an article I just submitted to Business Week...- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Social Media Beachcombing - Survival Of The Twittest?Rockefeller famously saw the Wall St. crash coming and got...
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Brand 2.0: brands in a digital age
Here's the chapter I contributed to the 'revised and updated' 2nd edition of the Economist book on Brands and Branding.Download Brand 2.0
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All Together Now - From Social Media To Social Good
This is an essay I wrote for NESTA under their "Reboot Britain" theme (which was also a conference) - about how new digital possibilities can help to "tackle the challenges we face as a country". I...
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What advertising should take from TED
I just submitted this for Campaign magazine in the UK (which lives here and here online). Not sure when it's out in print - tomorrow perhaps? Anyway this is what I wrote after going to TED Global in...
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