Posted in Online brand strategy, Uncategorized, tagged Brand activism, Brand democracy, Brand icons, Brand philanthropy, Campaign for Real Beauty, Coca-Cola, Colgate, Communities, Consumer Trust, Conversational marketing, CSR, Customer Made, Dove, Gatorade, Google, Harley Davidson, Internet, Kraft, New marketing, Newman's Own, Nike, Nokia, Prosumer, Quicksilver, Red Bull, Social affiliate marketing, Tango on October 2, 2009 | 4 Comments »
This is the first in a series of articles on establishing marketing leadership online. Over the past few years, I looked into how brands behave online and established a brand positioning model which takes into account the different types of strategies employed by different brands in the online space.
There are a number of different ways [...]
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Posted in Privacy, Transparency, Uncategorized, tagged Facial recognition, Google, Privacy, Social networking, social shifts, Transparency, We-Think on May 6, 2009 | 1 Comment »
In a new twist, the complete lack of social prIvacy potentially could be a good thing. At least according to the author of We-Think, Charles Leadbeater. In his book, he proposes that we apply social participation strategies to government to foster communities that govern and police themselves, without the need of interfering politicians or police. In a kind of neighbourhood watch on steroids if you will, whole cities/populations would essentially be activated to watch over each other in a mutual peer support fashion.
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Posted in Privacy, Transparency, Uncategorized, tagged 3 Mobile, Cloud Computing, Google, Nokia, O2, Privacy, Transparency on May 5, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I stumbled upon an interesting article from last October’s Harvard Business Review on privacy which mentioned the research of the privacy expert, Alan F. Westin. He categorised people’s approach to privacy as follows. First there are the Fundamentalist; people who believe we are already living in Orwell’s 1984 and, like most fundamentalist, are strongly lobbying [...]
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