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Liveblog: The New Nature of the World
Warning: liveblogging. Typos, errors and grammatical insanities likely. This post will change repeatedly over a period of time. Refresh for the latest updates. You are warned. Like Minds 2011 is underway, and first off is a series of four speakers...
Liveblogging: More Disruption of the Norms
Warning: liveblogging. Typos, errors and grammatical insanities likely. This post will change repeatedly over a period of time. Refresh for the latest updates. You are warned. Ian Fordham – Rewriting our Education The Education Foundation is six...
The Science of Search: Search Engines as Content Curators: Appealing to People AND Robots
Search marketing and search engine optimization differ from social media marketing due to the clear separation between user and publisher that the technology creates. Social media has a people centric dynamic. If you want your message to...
Increased Social Networking Blurs the Lines Between Online and Offline
Can Facebook socialising really keep you more clued up than physical socialising? A somewhat philosophical question: Are we nearing the ‘death’ of living separate online and offline lives brought about by the increasing amount of...
What on Earth IS Influence?
Last week Like Minds ran some free events for Social Media Week, one of which was on Social Influence. The participants debated digital influence over and over, bringing their different views of what they considered influence to be and...
What Was Said at the Social Recruitment Debate
Our good friend Delfin Vassallo (who we met in Helsinki last yet) captured what was said at our first Social Media Week event on Social Recruitment. With thanks to Delfin, we’re republishing his blog post here: Social Recruitment Debate Today’s most...
Do Retweets Matter?
Sometime ago I spoke at London Blog Club about value-based blogging. It’s an approach that values each participation that someone makes on the blog, and seeks to increase that participation by placing value on each person, as opposed to a volume...
The Creative Plateau and Content Curation
So why is the amount of newly generated content beginning to bottom out? Here are three possible reasons:1. The Innovation Adoption Curve Fans of the innovation adoption curve suggest that the hype associated with socially driven and created...
B2B & Social Media: Provide A Solution
You’ve probably heard at one point or another the question “does Social Media work for B2B?” Perhaps you’re even asking it yourself. One of the main things that helped with me this is a post by Dan Blank called “Creating Interest vs Providing...
