Defeating the Dark Side of Social Networking

Six Recommendations To try to respond to conversations about their brands in social media, companies would do well to consider six sets of actions: ¶ Develop a "social customer management" strategy that includes technical and business process components designed to engage customers in conversations on the Web. ¶ Automate as much interaction with customers as [...]

Mad Men: A Foucaultian take

I previously offered a Weberian reading of The Wire. And now I’m equally convinced that Mad Men is an outstanding Foucaultian deconstruction of contemporary American capitalism. In some ways the two play off against each other very well. The Wire is concerned constantly with norms, rules, duties: to whom am I responsible? What are the [...]

My All Time Top Ten… Tunes

This has got to be the hardest “My All Time Top Ten” list! Movies were hard, but with such a broad range of stuff I like, and with the voracious nature of my habit(!) there’s a lot of water under the bridge!! One thing I realise as I pull together the list is that (fairly [...]

My All Time Top Ten… Holidays

1. Cote D’Azur, France Photo credit: me! Let’s get one thing straight first off – I am an avid Francophile. I’d love to live there. But I love to holiday there more! Since I was first able to travel on my own I’ve been travelling south through France. It’s all very easy to say the [...]

My All Time Top Ten… Movies

1. The Insider (Michael Mann) Why? Well because of everything. This is the movie that it is hard to find fault with anywhere. Michael Mann’s directing style is unique and this is the best in his repertoire. His use of low level lighting and tight angles is used to best effect here. This is also [...]

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