INDUSTRY TALK  The news that the National Security Agency's PRISM program has government-sanctioned access to internal user data at 9 U.S. Internet companies has brought outrage. Obama and the UK Prime Minister David Cameron have said that it's the balance needed between privacy and security. But what damage if any is it doing to 'brand' Internet.
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SOCIAL MEDIA  We know you've heard it before; "it's not me, it's you"... Yes, Facebook wants to break up with you. And, let's be honest, it is about you, not them. "What have I done wrong", you are probably asking? Well, let me count the ways...
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ADVERTISING & MARKETING  Having just trialled a 'pay what you want model' (PWYW) for an online service business of mine, my faith in this method has fallen a little... but not completely. Are consumers ready for PWYW, is it a viable future choice of online marketers, and if so are consumers willing to give value in return?
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ADVERTISING & MARKETING  The future will demand for us to think beyond the screen and consider how we create context and meaning to all the experience that happen in between the times that we are not in-front of a screen. Why?
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INDUSTRY TALK  While some people think that Crowdfunding is about the cash that it generates for the projects, it really is more about the ideas, firstly encouraging them to seek funding and then being able to share them with people who are aligned with it. So in short it has everything to do with Digital Innovation & Entrepreneurship!
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TECHNOLOGY  The word expert is thrown around often, but Michael Naimark deserves the title. An international media arts authority, Naimark has founded numerous research labs(MIT Media Lab, Atari Research Lab Apple Media Lab) and his digital artworks are included in prominent American and German galleries. I talked to Naimark about the illusion of interactivity, community engagement and digital media's future.
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ADVERTISING & MARKETING  Promoting a new mobile App is not an easy task, but it doesn't necessarily have to be expensive. What I have discovered over the years is that when it comes to marketing, you either invest time or money. If you can't do the latter, you can still get the word out about your app through smart but free promotional strategies. Here is my to-do list.
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MOBILE  There are lots of development methodology approaches when building mobile sites and apps but by far the best is to take an Agile approach. The principle behind agile software development is essentially that you take an incremental and iterative approach to the product you're building.
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ADVERTISING & MARKETING  We all know one, the guy who started a blog and now has a million monthly visitors, well maybe not a million, but enough to justify the effort. We talked to Ian Cleary founder of RazorSocial very successful blog in the crowded social media space. What comes out of this meeting is that the short cut to success is to have a plan, have a process, work hard and use your head.
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ADVERTISING & MARKETING  Content is not about authoritarian and tyranny, oligarchy, and no, not even about monarchies. It's not even about Elvis, either. Imagine if the internet was actually a monarchy. Thinking that Content is King, is like thinking that magic is real, that the world is flat, and that tattoos can easily be removed even when you are 80 (but that is another story unto itself).
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ADVERTISING & MARKETING  In this series, I've been talking about why it's not enough for user experience designers (or likely any designer) to just show their work work visually. People really want to understand how you think. They want to hear the reasoning behind your design decisions and your unique perspective on the world around you. A great way to represent this is through writing.
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INDUSTRY TALK  In case you haven't noticed, "digital agencies" are springing up all over the place. Even old-order, legacy advertising agencies will tell you, with a straight face, they are now digital ready. It seems like everywhere you look, there's some sort of agency. What the world needs is the digital agency of the future. Let's have a look at just exactly what that means.
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ADVERTISING & MARKETING  This is the second post (read part 1) in a 3 part series on why designers must also be writers, not just to supplement their portfolios, but to ultimately make them better designers.
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SOCIAL MEDIA  I was asked to upload the slide deck I use for the 4 week Social Media course I run for Adschool Australia. So here it is, in condensed form.
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ADVERTISING & MARKETING  Below is an interview with Alistair Croll the co-author of the book 'Lean Analytics', carried out by Eoghan here at Bullet, in which Alistair explains how the right approach to analytics can be the deciding factor between success and failure. Valuable advice for any founder.
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ADVERTISING & MARKETING  This is the first post in a 3 part series on why designers must also be writers, not just to supplement their portfolios, but to ultimately make them better designers.
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SOCIAL MEDIA  Have you ever looked at your social media marketing colleagues and wondered what makes them 'different' from you or others in the social media world from a personality perspective? As marketers, we know behavior and interests help with building target persona's but what about the social media personality types?
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ADVERTISING & MARKETING  Are all your social media buttons stalling your site performance? Social media sharing buttons are one of the biggest drags on any website's performance, so removing them altogether may significantly increase your business.
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SOCIAL MEDIA  Last Thursday we held our third Facebook Roundtable. One point was made that screamed out at me. It was made by my good friend Chris Gross. He talked about social media being a program, not a campaign. For me this point is a perfect example of how social media is fundamentally different from the traditional marketing model.
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TECHNOLOGY  Bitcoins made the main stream news last month as an alternative currency to the Euro for Cypriots desperate to keep hold of their money. According to the biggest exchange Mt. Gox, the number of new account opened went from 60k in March to 75k for the first few days of April. The add that now roughly 20,000 new accounts created each day, is this the future of cash?
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