Good News; Bad News

AdWeek covers a story that most people working in the digital sector will already have had some intuition of:

Forrester Research con­ducted a “state of inter­active agencies” survey of about 100 global inter­active mar­keters. It found just 23 percent believed their “tra­di­tional brand agency” is capable of planning and managing inter­active mar­keting activ­ities. About 46

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More on Post-​​Digital

I’ve been writing recently about living in a post-​​​​digital world. Not that com­puters have gone away in any sense, but rather that the digital world now pen­et­rates ‘normal life’ to such an extent that to make a dis­tinc­tion between digital and other media seems archaic. Anyway, cleverer people than me have been having similar thoughts.

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Places and Spaces

We call the Internet a place. We go to sites. Marketing people talk about des­tin­a­tions.

But that’s rubbish. The Internet is with me, and increas­ingly with most people, all of the time. It follows us as we go to other places. Increasingly, it helps us to navigate those places. You have probably seen it

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#PRDebate Start Again

On the one hand, I am obvi­ously and unashamedly biased. I run a network for the digital industry. I believe that digital people are the cleverest, most capable, most focused and honest that the media industry has to offer.

On the other, crikey, there are an awful lot of digital folk working in PR nowadays. And digital outfits that ‘do’

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Why Radio?

Yes, I still have a blog, it seems, and I’m still using it to pimp work events.

Next Tuesday, we’re doing What Happens to Radio? And you should book right now, honestly.

Some of you too-​​​​cool-​​​​for-​​​​school nu-​​​​media folk might be thinking ‘who gives a shit about radio?’

So this is why I chose radio for our next event.

It’s

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