Category: Business

  • There’s a social media evolution – Part 1

    (See “There’s no social media revolution” by Paul Seaman for direct context.) Over the past few weeks, Paul Seaman and I have engaged in a friendly debate (well, a series of individual blog posts) about social media and whether or…

  • Individualism of leadership

    I’ve been reading a feature in the FT about what it takes to be a leader, which reviews a book called 1000 CEOs published in the UK last month. Very timely as this was a discussion topic with a good…

  • A compelling route for the mainstream media

    The Economist is one of the best-value subscription deals for a mainstream medium that I can think of. For the amount I pay quarterly (about £20, if I recall correctly), I get a print magazine every Friday in the mail,…

  • Is ‘social business’ the new black?

    What does “social business” mean? I’ve been wondering this since reading about the acquisition of Headshift by US agency Dachis Group announced this morning UK time. Among the flowery prose in the press release is this phrase that strikes me…

  • The cloud is still not reliable enough

    Much gnashing of teeth yesterday as Gmail (Googlemail in the UK and Germany) was out for the count for some hours following what Google called ‘routine upgrades’ to some of their servers. In a post on the Official Gmail Blog,…