Conventional wisdom about management mistakes has changed. It’s just not cool these days to hide your blunders: the world is too transparent. The latest trend is towards admitting errors quickly and completely. Great. It’s a step up from the blame-deflection…
When Consumers Are Not Clients
It’s an especially good point that there’s a difference between the consumers of these media products and the clients of the media companies. This isn’t really new, though. What’s really happened is that as each new medium has become mainstream, it’s become a medium for sales as well as communicating news.
Behavioural Advertising – The Right Way
The FTC has been “up in Google’s grill” with privacy concerns about behavioural advertising ever since Google decided to acquire DoubleClick. Google’s Nicole Wong has been trying hard to defend Google’s online advertising practices. The bottom line is that right…
Lil’ Twitter Hack
If you’re a Twitter user (and it’s the “in” thing to do these days, or so I hear) do you have your latest tweets displayed on your web site? It’s easy. I prefer the HTML widget because you can play…
The Right Rize for Social Media Networks
I was reading an old Clay Shirky blog post, A Group Is Its Own Enemy. It talks about some of the interesting characteristics of groups (in particular online communities), such as how essentially groups need some kind of government, otherwise…
Are startups the key to fighting the recession?
The whole point is to have a permanent effect on the economy, not stimulate yet another bubble. The solution isn’t to fund a hundred “could be the next thing” companies. It’s to support companies that are likely to be around in five years.