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This was filmed in April 2011 and talks about some of the issues that are being talked about after the riots. It seems we have the answers available to us. We just need to implement them.

Drayton Bird recently found this: “Introducing the worlds most dynamic and revolutionary jobs website” Many comments ensued on his Facebook page and blog. Someone sent in this quote which every marketer should read. George Orwell: “The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims, … Continued

From Havard Business Review, an interesting review of LinkedIn by Judith Hurwitz Do here first two sentences sound familiar: I joined LinkedIn in 2007. I can’t remember why. The full article is here

It will be interesting to see how this works. Facebook already use “likes” to influence the Bing search engine.  This is Google’s answer. Read more here

Some very useful points here. I like the last two points: #25: Why measure For community management to be successful, we need to regularly measure our efforts. Dion Hinchcliffe writes, “If you aren’t looking at overall levels of participation, growth rate of new members, making lists of the recently disengaged and following up on them, etc., … Continued

A flowchart/decision tree to help you decide whether your idea is a good one. http://mashable.com/2011/06/02/website-flowchart/

There are lots of names on this list that I do not know, but I have followed some links and this will be worth exploring further. http://www.fastcompany.com/most-creative-people/2011 I am not sure why Ryan Seacrest is on the list, but then his production company produces Jamie’s Food Revolution.

Or have people already been replaced? This is a story from Luton Airport Jan 2011 about using holograms to replace people. This is a story from mid 2010 about Augmented Reality CVs Is this just a flash in the pan? Will there be a backlash, like there was against off-shore Call Centres.  In the end … Continued

[I was trying for a complete alliteration, but failed on the last word.  I did think of using Activity, but it was not quite right] This is a story of a prize winning ad agency who advertised for a new client and said they would use their prize money to fund the media spend. Just on … Continued

I like this post from Seth Godin’s blog: http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2011/05/marketing-to-nobody.html Nobody wears a watch any more. Nobody wears a tie either. Nobody shops at a bookstore, at least nobody I know. The market of nobody is big indeed. You can do really well selling to nobody if you do your homework. In fact, most companies selling … Continued