Social Media ROI, Again

Via Stuart Bruce, I found this funny clip in which social media mar­keting guru David Meerman Scott lambasts client-​​​​side mar­keting managers for con­tinu­ally asking about the ROI of social media projects.

His point is that mar­keters don’t know the ROI of tra­di­tional forms of advert­ising like bill­boards and 30-​​​​second TV

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Coffee with Julie Meyer

As I make my way down Cannon Street, I feel like death warmed up. I’ve had a bad cold for three or four days, and I’ve used the magical power of cigar­ettes to develop a sim­ul­tan­eous cough of room-​​​​shaking pro­por­tions. I’m off to see Julie Meyer at Ariadne Capital. Julie is perhaps best-​​​​known as the co-​​​​founder of Continue reading Coffee with Julie Meyer

Betting on Search

My post on Saturday about pre­dic­tion markets being a useful way to access col­lective intel­li­gence brought a response from Gary of Tall Street. Tall Street is a new search engine which operates a form of stock market on search results. You search for and add sites to the system and invest pretend money in the sites you

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Stock Tip: Bet on Collective Intelligence

As I’ve observed before, mar­shalling col­lective intel­li­gence, or the wisdom of crowds, on the Internet isn’t always very easy. Social news voting sites like digg are sus­cept­ible to social influ­ences. Wikis are also weakened by this: do you really want to edit what your boss says? One way, though, to generate the

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Premier league?

E-​​​​consultancy reports that Prime Minister Tony Blair paid a visit to Silicon Valley on Sunday:

Hopefully the PM will have left with some ideas about how to create an envir­on­ment in which dotcom and tech start-​​​​ups can flourish here in the UK.

The visit saw Blair urged to set up his own blog, as well to

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