Musings and analysis on marketing, buzz and communications.
This begins an informal series of interviews with the people who are speaking at the Final BlogPotomac (October 23, at the State Theatre, register today!), and what better person to begin with than the emcee? Shonali Burke is the incoming president of IABC-DC, and adjunct faculty at Johns Hopkins University’s Zanvyl Krieger School of [...]
Last Thursday, John C. Havens (co-author of the outstanding book Tactical Transparency) and I did a BlogTalkRadio show on the future of online media. It was a pretty outstanding podcast focusing on why social media is dead from a communications innovation standpoint, the CRT/tanaka acquisition, mobile media, augmented realities, and the Twitter overhype situation.
Have a [...]
Well, I’ve been called arrogant three times privately, anonymously and now publicly because of Thursday’s post on “Why a Final BlogPotomac: Social Media Really is Dead.” There have been public posts, some debating or decrying the discussion, others turning it into a parody. My feelings about social media innovation still remain the same, but [...]
Pew/Internet released its third Future of the Internet study this past Sunday. Really the study is a benchmark survey of thought leaders in the business and reveals some very obvious brush strokes as well as a startling thought or two.
Some general thoughts on the report before diving into specific findings… It’s a highly subjective data [...]
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