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Where’s the margin in social media?

October 21, 2009

This is a guest blog post as part of the forthcoming Somesso conference on leveraging social media for the finance industry in Zurich where I’ll be speaking November 2nd and 3rd. According to a data from Forbes, Altimeter and Visible Banking, only 5% of the world’s 100 largest hundred banks, 9% of the world’s largest [...]

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Has paid for media had its chips?

August 31, 2009

Rupert Murdoch once famously quipped ‘nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste ofthe great British public’. public service has the capability to underpin seismic shifts with common sense, giving them a meaningful foundation that people can buy into. News International doesn’t see its purpose as this, it only computes the profit motive, and in days like these that is an issue.

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Social connectivity is the new management rock n’ roll

May 3, 2009

The Rolling Stones were formed when Keith Richards hit on Brian Jones because he was a big record collector. They became one of the greats of a new era. Meanwhile, the bowler hatted brigade carried on for a while, still getting up and taking the 7:45am train to Waterloo. But it was with the Stones that the fruitful change lay. They were the future. Management can gain a great deal from learning new leadership skills, loosening up and listening to the band.

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