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Twitter on paper

I have mentioned Lee and Sachi LeFever’s WIKI and RSS video’s before.

Their series of short explanatory videos (The Common Craft Show) fight complexity - with simple videos in plain language. They call their format “paperworks”. I think they are simply great.
Their latest video is all about Twitter - and again is worth [...]

Social Networks and a Golden Ratio

It’s bugged me for a while, and low and behold Seth Godin sums it up again. First. And that’s two posts in a row from me, with a Godin influence! Damn it that guy is good.
Anyway, Seth says “One of the mantras of networking (and the many social networking sites that people are flocking [...]

Agenda Setters 2007

Silicon.com has come up trumps with its Agenda Setters for 2007.  Take a look at the List and see who’s on it.  Alternatively take a peek at the break downs by Business Leaders,  Technologists, Entrepreneurs, and Media Movers.And for the real trend followers there is the Achievers 2000-07 trackback (which charts the top performers over [...]

and if you know your history…..

 
After two weeks flirting in the warmth of Africa’s shadow in Fuerteventura’s mid-Atlantic location, normal service resumes here at the RawStylus blog.
After plowing through a mountain of email, and general catching up, I read this in the UK Financial Times and felt that no serious blog that discusses marketing in the context of high technology [...]

Web 2.0 - Why we got here and whats next

Alexander van Elsas points us to a Marketingfacts post highlighting a brilliant presentation by Rolf Skyberg, the disruptive innovator at eBay.

Skyberg discusses the evolution of the Internet by placing it into a historical context; the result a unique perspective.
At 477 slides you could be inclined to give this a miss.
Don’t.
You’ll fly through this.
And no doubt [...]

Mr. and Mrs. Average

See how you compare with the UK’s IT and Business Decision makers in these Silicon.com surveys.
Do you think a business blog can be a good way for companies to communicate with their customers?
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What is the biggest expenses claim you’ve ever made?
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When you are on holiday, how often do you check your work [...]

Aug. 7, 1991: Ladies and Gentlemen, the World Wide Web

Perhaps it is time to pause and think today. This is from Wired:
This day in History……1991: The world wide web becomes publicly available on the internet for the first time.
The web has changed a lot since Tim Berners-Lee posted, on this day in 1991, the first web pages summarising his World Wide Web project, [...]

You may say I’m a dreamer

Imagine there’s no heaven
It’s easy if you try.
No hell below us,
above us only sky.
Imagine all the people
living for today.
Imagine there’s no countries.
It isn’t hard to do.
Nothing to kill or die for
and no religion, too.
Imagine all the people
living life in peace.
You may say I’m a dreamer.
But I’m not the only one.
I hope someday you’ll join us
and [...]

New Interactive Campaign for Toshiba.

Toshiba choose Mason Zimbler for their latest notebook campaign across Europe.
Targeting business and consumers across EMEA, this highly integrated campaign [...]

Three letter acronyms (TLAs)

I got an invite to a webinar today.  I get a lot of these.  Tech vendors LOVE their webinars.
I’ve read the title of the invite twice.  Twice.  Slooooooowly.
“TWO WORLDS COLLIDE:  Combining PPM and ALM, from the PMO Perspective” *

Now I’ve worked in technology marketing all my working life.  I get technology.
But the use of two, [...]

A great period of invention

From a A TECHNOLOGY ALERT from The Wall Street Journal……
“Bill Gates and Steve Jobs held a rare joint appearance at The Wall Street Journal’s D: All Things Digital conference in Carlsbad, Calif., talking about the current state of the technology industry and reminiscing about the early days of collaboration between Microsoft and Apple.
The longtime rivals [...]

Bloggers under the spotlight

Blogging - The cult of the amateur? Is user generated content “digital narcissism”? Web gurus debate what the internet is doing to culture and communication. (First broadcast on BBC Radio 4’s Broadcasting House on May 6)

Interface decision making: in the blink of an eye

This post started a brief conversation about usability, interfaces and making first impressions count. In it David Hawdale discusses various usability issues in a little more detail.
After reading his comment, I jumped on his website to take a look around and was presented with these images.

Thanks for the laugh David. This sure flags [...]