Continuing the series celebrating my ten years of digital photography, this shot was taken in Berlin during a trip with a few friends in the Spring of 2004. At the time the haunting Holocaust Memorial was under construction, and the grey monoliths from which it is constructed were largely in place, but many were still … Continue reading digita10: 2004: Berlin
I've been asked speak later this week to the massed ranks of the marketing community here at Microsoft about my approach to social media. Sandwiched between the UK general manager, and the global marketing head, it's a bit of a big gig. Anyone who uses the social internet regularly will be well aware that there … Continue reading 4 heads, 3 principals: my approach to social media
I had an interesting session with some of the folk from Edelman UK's digital team last week. At one point we talked a little about the concepts of privacy in 2012 and beyond. It seems that privacy in the old sense, that of the individual being able to keep all knowledge of anything and everything … Continue reading The new privacy
Achievements this week included: - Great conversations with Roland @ 100% open... - ... the Imagination chaps (getting a first view of potential areas to work together)... - ... colleagues from the Global A&O group (enhancing the taxonomy)... - ... Edelman's digital team... - ... John @ M&S... - ... and an old schoolmate Matt … Continue reading Weeknote 117: commutable
Continuing a short series of photos marking my 10 years of digital photography, a view out into the English channel from Newhaven on the South Coast on a chilly February weekend in 2002.
In recent years there has been cruel (and mostly unfounded) interpretation of the abbreviation CIO – Career Is Over. My work in recent months looking at the advertising and marketing industry, and the complex ecosystem of agencies that exist in that world, has lead me to think that another cruel, probably unfounded, and yet drawn … Continue reading CMO = Career May be Over?
Achievements this week included: - fabulous session with Tony & co from The Partners at our Consumer Experience Centre - further inroads into groups doing work with the big agencies in our corporate network - the first whole-department team meeting, and giving a quick overview of my work to date - finished off the annual … Continue reading Weeknote 116: rebuild
The last two weeks has seen a series of new model announcements from many of the major players in the smartphone market. The overall reaction from the press: a muted "meh". It seems that the basic form of the smartphone - a 4" touch screen taking up the bulk of the device, operating system and … Continue reading Mobile innovation
This October will mark 10 years since I made the switch from film to digital photography. It seems at like only yesterday, and yet at the same time unimaginable that not only you had to wait until a reel was exposed and developed before you knew what you had taken, but also that the only … Continue reading digita10: 2002: Geysir
There was a bit of a concerted marketing push it seems yesterday by IBM, heralding the announcement of new services from the company targeted at the Chief Marketing Officer. In coverage, the Gartner-sourced factoid that by 2017 the head of marketing will influence more spend on technology than the CIO has been repeated. Now that … Continue reading The decentralization of marketing
