My relationship with this blog has taken a significant step this week as I have now become a fully fledged 'media owner'. On Monday I was contacted by a real life media agency (with real life offices and everything) about selling advertising space on the site. At my core I think that carrying add inventory … Continue reading The value of you
Humour me, if you will, with a little thought experiment. Imagine that the telephone had only been invented in the past 10 years. That whilst it had had incredible success in the general population, businesses hadn't really adopted it. They found it a little alien, and couldn't quite make sense of how it could … Continue reading A world without telephones
In all of the hubbub in recent months surrounding the launch of the new Windows products, there's one angle that I haven't seen explored much and that is related to the way in which people react at an emotional level to change. Over the years I've been able to work with all sorts of people … Continue reading Parallel running
There are a few events we've got coming up that might be of interest. On May 8th, there is a session taking place at Modern Jago in East London looking at what the traditional world of business systems can learn from the consumer app revolution. Targeted at people from large businesses, software houses, or design … Continue reading Forthcoming events: May 2013
Achievements this week included: - a successful series of speaking engagements including TH_NKTank.... - ... Em Stone's mobile app evening... - ... tech days online... - ... And the IPA DBG - some interesting developments on the new project - plus plan b emerges Next week: skiing and a trip to the farm
I had an interesting conversation yesterday with Claire Rowland who is a user experience designer for smart device company AlertMe. She'd been taking part in a panel discussion at the TH_NKTANK event focused around (for want of a better term) the Internet of Things. A thread of conversation emerged around the idea that if … Continue reading The Internet of needy things
There is much talk about the future of retail. Major chain stores seem to be collapsing regularly, and high streets up and down the country have become semi-populated places where empty properties lie idle. Mass retailing giants like Tesco's turn shopping into a warehouse experience, and thrifty customers use physical stores to see products … Continue reading Customer-centric shops
I'm speaking this afternoon on a panel talking about Cloud computing in the context of marketing at an event being run by the agency TH_NK. It feels a bit like going back in time... (Sadly there isn't an HTML tag to invoke swirling harp sounds, so imagine a bit of a Florence and a … Continue reading Clear skies
I spent part of the evening on Saturday trying to explain Twitter to a non-Twitter user at dinner. It's like trying to explain different colours. It's useful, though, once in a while to try to explain something that you do regularly to someone who has no knowledge, as it really helps to make you … Continue reading The basics
Achievements this week included: - final tweaks (almost) to the IPA session next Friday - presenting to the full team on the App Acceleration work we did a couple of months ago - planning for an editorial theme of business of apps next month - pulling together a presentation for a mobile apps event next … Continue reading Weeknote 143: parentally
