Recommending Reading – 4th April 2010

If you have a spare 15 minutes this weekend, you could do worse than read the following: Jonah Lehrer looks at Costco through his Neuroscience prism. I’m not quite sure it adequately explains why people choose to pay a subscription to enter the store, but it is still interesting reading. Two sides of a similar [...]

Recommended Reading – 26th March 2010

These five posts got me thinking over the past week: Justin McMurray from Made By Many has laid out a manifesto for agile strategy. I particularly like the idea of simplicity of purpose over the reliance on a mystical “insight” (which may well rest on top of a house of cards) Gareth Kay points out [...]

Recommended Reading – 26th February 2010

I’ll try to make this type of post a weekly occurrence. My previous link updates were quite unwieldy, so I’ll try to limit these recommend reading posts to around five items. Ten movie recuts – because it shows how perspective is dynamic and how, through editing or otherwise, we don’t necessarily see the full picture [...]

Two years old, and recommended reading

It’s been two years since my first, tentative, blog post at this address. I’m pleased that it is still going strong but I have been a bit neglectful of it. So, over the coming months I’m going to attempt to do the following Refresh my blog roll – something which is long overdue Post more [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]