If control is unattainable, what is the goal of our brand building efforts? The answer seems more related to adaptability and changeability than unanimity, let’s…
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What are the key components of an ideal brand in a post-digital age? (The following is an answer to a question from Priyanka Kanse /…
Read the PostThere are no ideal brands, just brilliant strategies
When attention and engagement becomes less important in advertising and marketing, things are going to get a whole lot healthier. 1. This, the last from…
Inspired by a question posed by @gabyrosario on Twitter I found myself thinking that if social media is not about individuals, users or consumer, but…
In a media world exploding with information, how can we make less noise? Is it reducing the content? Making it more useful and relevant? Or…
Storytelling is packaging, a vehicle designed around an idea in order to increase its effectiveness in communication. According to Al Ries, advertising is storytelling: “Without…
This last year has seen logarithmic changes in marketing, fueled by different concepts like Utilities, AR, The Collective Exchange of Ideas, Transmedia, Digital becoming ubiquitous,…
Kevin Slavin of Area/Code states in this brilliant video from 5D Conference (previously published on this blog) that TV is an event, something millions of…
The Every Day Life / Post Digital culture is presenting us with new marketing concepts and opportunities. Changing our focus from creating customers through products,…
Read the PostWe have become value providers, not product providers.
As long as the standards for measuring value belongs the old Attention Web mindset, the ability to prove new value and need for new strategies…
How can we to effectively help companies and organizations enter a new digital mindset when the ways of measuring effect still relies on tools “invented”…
We seem to be looking for universal principles, when we should be looking for fragmentation. It’s quite common when trying to understand something that we…
If you want to know what the future might look like, start tuning your antennas to the ideas of Kevin Slavin of Area/Code . In…
Read the PostViewers and users are the same people, the question is how to reconnect them again
The first ten years of digital was (to a large extent) the same siloed ideas that we’d already been exploiting for decades on other content…
Read the PostDigital didn’t change anything, but everything digital changed.
Jeff Jarvis in this video, from the Nokia Ideas Project, states that since the Internet is a connection machine, anything creating artificial middle men, preventing…
There is a big difference between how the existing media business models work in the old landscape compared to how they will work in the…
Read the PostA New Business Model, for Content That Grows, Connects and Augments
As we are moving from the Attention Web to an Everyday Life, where technology and communication are integrated parts, providing additional deliberate value becomes increasingly…
As the media, information and conversational world is changing, why are the business models of the media industry standing still? In a slightly simplified and…
Context is not a constant (context = the situation where a product is used and creates value), it is as fluid and adaptable as ideas,…
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Taking the suggestion from one of my previous posts, that marketing can be divided into three segments based on its abilities. (Messaging, The Collective Exchange…
Since it’s not about technology, but about humans, we should pay more attention to the following statement: The unique effects of digital marketing is not…
As people are discussing whether or not they had the creativity to ask Wolfram Alpha a smart enough question, if Bing is a real threat…
If digital and real life is the same place, what is digital marketing? And is there a better way to articulate the new opportunities? In…
If people don’t treat digital and real life as two different things, why do agencies, marketers and companies? (Read part one of this stream here…)…
“Digital” as a term is messing up our whole vernacular . Let me elaborate: Technology is becoming, in the words of Clay Shirky: “boring enough…
Branded Utilities are more than just extended value, they might represent a whole new mindset when it comes to business models . We are now…
Read the PostChanging The Business Model: From Customer Experience to Subscriber Experience
Tim Brown makes an excellent argument against technology becoming to ubiquitous in the sense that it just solves our tasks without including us in the…
Technological and media related innovation is not moving us forward, it’s not really moving us at all, if anything we are expanding . Innovation is…
Read the PostWe are not moving forward and our head is in the wrong direction
If we are trying to understand how communication is changing / evolving / innovating we need to look at the bigger picture, not deconstruct the…
Read the PostIt’s not about Twitter, It’s About Extending Our Digital Language
In Kevin Slavin’s presentation “This Platform Called Everyday Life” he puts an excellent perspective on the mobile media plan erection usually begins within 20 minutes.…
Watching this video (below) explaining social updates I get the feeling that what they call “the ambient model” is identical to “the broadcasting model”, and…
As we come up with new ideas and concepts for how companies and organizations should market themselves and connect with their consumers it’s important to…
How will brands change their marketing towards customers as our connected lives move from the universal and roomy interfaced libraries of the browsered internet and…
People don’t connect online because they can talk to each other, they connect online because they through an exchange of ideas identify and define a…
Read the PostAre we too focused on getting people to talk to us instead of exchanging ideas