I’m sorry it’s been a while. Not sure you missed me like I missed you, but being ill, travelling loads and doing my first speaking engagement in years (at Ecole Hotelier Lausanne, which went really well), not to mention continuing to try and be a better dad and husband have meant that you’ve had [...]
Posts under ‘communication’
Owning the conversation
I love Disqus. It’s made managing comments on my blog pretty easy, between that and Facebook, I feel like I can engage with the people who read my posts pretty well. I own the conversation. I can’t always control where the discussion goes, and nor do I want to, I’m not a [...]
My thoughts on LeWeb 09
Earlier this year, I set myself some objectives and gave my year a theme. 2009 was to be the year of “Learning to do”. I spent previous years, thinking, pontificating, learning but not really doing much. So, I told myself that by LeWeb in 2009 I wanted to have done some stuff [...]
Beyond Google part two, for marketing
Duane over at Kashflow wrote a great blog post about SEO as a marketing strategy over at the Kashflow blog. I couldn’t agree more. His main point is summed up nicely in this bit:
“Whilst free traffic (as opposed to paid-for Adwords) is highly desirable – and we certainly do well from it ourselves [...]
Beyond Google part one
There’s lots of news around Newscorp and getting Google to pay for the content on Newscorp newspapers. I don’t like is companies using Google as a scapegoat.
Newscorp feels that Google should be paying for access. MSFT is talking about paying Newscorp for their content. The rationale being that perhaps this will [...]
Impacting society and shaping the news through social media
I’ve been thinking a lot about the impact of social media on news coverage lately. Watching BBC Question Time with the BNP party leader Dick Nick Griffin, and seeing Twitter mentioned as the first way of contacting the show (ahead of email, web etc), meant I had to write about it.
I love the way [...]
Tip Black Tech
Is Google wave overhyped? Maybe. Is it a wash of productivity destruction and the worst of IM and email? Maybe. *Robert Scoble seems to think this about Google Wave and a whole lot worse. But people said the same thing about Facebook, and then joined and spent hours daily on it. [...]
Destructive versus constructive marketing
Another day in the hospital, so while Mira sleeps and the bee showers, I write another blog post.
On the way to the hospital this morning I picked up the FT and was annoyed by the cover story. Not the one about Swiss banking secrecy being amended – I don’t have enough assets [...]
Blogging is a channel not a chore
I came across an interesting post from an Australian Entrepreneur saying that being in the middle of a cash raise and managing a growing company left him with little time to blog. I instantly thought of Duane Jackson over at Kashflow, who’s managing a move of his business and home, building a growing company [...]
Experimenting with business models
Chris Anderson’s written a book about it, Umair Haque’s written lots of manifesto’s and posts about it, and Fred Wilson’s written countless blog posts about it. It is radical and new business models (from free to freemium to radical pricing and value) and it’s use in the digital and real world.
So when [...]