Media Week

Where were you when the untimely death of Michael Jackson was announced? I was on the beach in Cannes with colleagues winding down after the festival. Someone mentioned it and I went straight to Twitter, then Facebook then my email on my phone......nothing...

I just got an email from the fabulous Guy Phillipson at the IAB which had a side bar that looked like this: You'd have to be a woolly mammoth buried under ten feet of ice for the past 10,000 years NOT to have heard of Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn or...

Nodding heads are normally a good sign when you’re speaking in public and there were quite a few at the Online Information Show yesterday when I was talking about how Microsoft uses social media to communicate with advertisers and gather feedback. Kicking...

Nice to see The Sunday Life Show at the weekend giving a balanced view on social networking. Too often the dramatic music starts up and shadowy figures can be seen huddled ove computer keyboards giving the illusion that most of us are up to no good on...

Lee Odden’s got a great thread going on his Internet Marketing Blog on how business is done via Social Networks, and which are the most influential. He’s set up a poll which has some interesting results. LinkedIn - is coming out top, but only just ahead...

.....your article in last weekend’s Mail on Sunday – 400 Facebook Friends, But Who Else Did The Web Let Into Laurent’s Life? – was a little silly! Here are a few comments: - Individuals and companies search for their names online in order to measure their...

So Facebook is bigger than MySpace ! Surely it was only a matter of time? To survive the onslaught the latter goes niche into entertainment and music while FB proves a better connector and communication tool. The fabulous Anne Kennedy of Beyond Ink gave...

Now of course Brand Republic knew the BBC/Flying Penguin Story was a hoax! (Giggle!) But how far did Infoworld go with their Google Buys Facebook gag? One commenter thought these jolly japes could affect stock prices. Does he have a point or should he...

Finally got around to reading Malcolm Gladwell's The Tipping Point , and what a fascinating read it is, especially if you apply the theories and models to this "advanced" internet age (it was written in 2000.) One passage really stood out...

Just seen Johnny Chatterton, a student from Leeds University, on BBC Breakfast talking about his Facebook Group - Support the Monks' protest in Burma. Given the internet has been shut down over there, this is an incredible example of how people, 80k...

It seems the post Summer weeks are the favourite time for agency summits, conferences, internal all-hands, agency days and client share-alls! After a quiet spell in the sunshine, I find myself with 6 presentations in two weeks at all-day events. I'm...