Weeknote 149: mild disappointment

  Achievements this week included: - surviving Wembley (and the emotional aftermath) - a great conversation with Craig at http://www.mylearningworx.com/ - finalising presentations for next week's The Marketer webinar... - ...and for a show and tell with another part of the WPP empire - and some interesting conversations with internal colleagues about executive engagement Next week: … Continue reading Weeknote 149: mild disappointment

Community thinking

On June 5th I'm giving another short presentation as part of The Marketer's series of webinars, this time on the subject of online communities. Here's roughly what I will be saying (as ever, if you are attending and you read this in advance, you'll only be spoiling it for yourself!)... When I was first asked … Continue reading Community thinking

Weeknote 148: Que Sera Sera

Achievements this week included: - preparing content for the CIM webinar in a fortnight - good catch ups with a few old colleagues - a structure for a presentation for a big media agency taking place in two weeks - a bit of content for my UBelly chums - and some interesting chats about how … Continue reading Weeknote 148: Que Sera Sera

Upcoming events – June 2013

I've got a couple of public events coming up in the next month if you're interested: I'm running a short online presentation for The Marketer magazine on the subject of Online Communities on June 5th 1-2pm London time. You can register for that here, and if you are a CIM member it can count towards … Continue reading Upcoming events – June 2013

Weeknote 147: insert obligatory snooker joke here

  Achievements this week included: - shaping of a couple client events coming up in the next month - one retailer, one marketer - some positive reflections on The Consumer at Work event... - ... and finding some folk interested in taking the format idea further - good catch up with former Imagination colleagues - … Continue reading Weeknote 147: insert obligatory snooker joke here

Weeknote 146: consumers at work

Achievements this week included: - a successful event with software houses, enterprise customers and agencies at Modern Jago - a fun conversation in the heart of start-up land with Shhmooze CEO @michellegallen - a peer into the world of Geo with some time at a Bing Maps app event Next week: a moment to reflect, … Continue reading Weeknote 146: consumers at work

Bing Maps Apps event: slides and links

Here's the slides from my presentation today at the Bing Maps event: http://sdrv.ms/10mKUkM There's a bit more commentary on the content here: https://mmitii.mattballantine.com/2012/01/09/types-of-app-business-models/ and here: https://mmitii.mattballantine.com/2013/04/18/seven-reasons-to-app/

The Consumer at Work: slides

We spent an entertaining day today at our East London venue Modern Jago with a mix of folk from software companies, design agencies and big enterprises thinking about how consumerisation is impacting the world of business systems. Over the next day or so the slides from the event and notes taken during the day will … Continue reading The Consumer at Work: slides