Links – 8th March 2009

My recommendations for the past week include:

Paul Graham on why he thinks social media has contributed to the death of TV. He makes some good points on the social nature of TV, but I disagree that synchronicity will fade away. TV will continue to prompt watercooler chat around shared experiences. If the watercooler is the [...]

Links – 1st March 2009

Firstly, thanks to everyone that read, tweeted and commented upon my previous post on “Research vs Planning”. It’s dispersal backs up Ana Andjelic’s point on how word of mouth spreads through random spikes within overlapping spheres, and not through concentric circles of influence.
Reading material from the past week to consider include:

Paul Graham’s new essay covers [...]

Links – 2nd January 2009

The year has started off well – I didn’t write 2008 in the subject header.
Social media

The US Air Force has published their “rules of engagement” in responding to blog posts and it makes for a very sensible read. Considerations include transparency, sourcing, timeliness, tone and influence

A Flickr alumnus gives advice on how to grow communities

JP [...]

Slideshare links – 14th December 2008

Winter sickness creates lethargy. Thankfully I’m not this sick – I think it is more a case of being a self-inflicted result of this and this.
Anyway, as it is easier than trawling through a few weeks of delicious links, here are 5 Slideshare presentations on marketing that I have recently read and enjoyed. All are [...]

Links – 30th November 2008

This list is both later and longer than recent posts, but the quality of thought and writing is extremely high
Changing industries
Seth Godin on things the New York Times could have done to stay ahead in the digital environment. While hindsight is a wonderful thing, and while every successful online venture is greeted by many more [...]

Links – 16th November 2008

Aside from my holiday in July, this is the first week in 9 months of blogging here that I have been unable to blog on two separate days. Quantity versus quality issues aside, I’m quite pleased with this return.
The links below are slightly more varied than recent weeks:
Peter Kim’s 22 step social media marketing plan [...]

Links – November 7th 2008

Short and sweet this week:
Conversation Agent has been running some great lists this week – 25 ways to fail and come out on top is one of them
Seth Godin’s 14 trends of new marketing (Cool Insights)
Sprint’s awesome new widget site – The Now Network – pulls in all sorts of interesting data from all over [...]

Links – 26th October 2008

A selected list of links below. The recent paucity of posts, along with this going out on a Sunday, should indicate that my recent schedule hasn’t been too forgiving.
Blog-related
Jeremiah Owyang on the 7 tenets of the connected analyst. There is a balance between utility, leadership and a commercial outlook
NBC has begun releasing its TAMIs – [...]

Links – 13th October 2008

I’m away for the second half of this week so I am running two 10-day link updates, rather than have a gap later this week
(This is in no way related to me not having time to get this together last week)
Blog-related
Can marketing survive without the Grand Gesture? (Chroma Inc)
A great overview and analysis of Digg’s [...]

Links – 3rd October 2008

This blog has been quiet on content for the last month or so. I’ll try and change that in the coming week.
Anyway, things I’ve read in the last week include
Blog-related
Jeff Jarvis argues that news sites should evolve into community-based collections, where articles are continually updated and evolving (as in Wikipedia). Doc Searls disagrees, arguing that [...]