Tablet Reading: Making Digital Media A Beautiful Experience Sometimes the aha moment comes in mysterious ways. But this weekend, it dawned on me: I actually prefer to read on my iPad than on my computer, and probably more than a regular book if you take my pulse count. The reason: well curated content via a [...]
Time to reflect I recently saw the new Scorsese film, Hugo. While I didn’t like the film particularly (see the review here), time is certainly a central tenet of the film. Clocks abound. Hugo keeps winding {us} up the clocks… and Scorsese keeps winding us back in time. Time is precious. Our souvenirs, too. People [...]
MDE18: Interview with Joakim Nilsson, head of Social Media at Betclic Joakim Nilsson has been in charge of social media at Betclic Everest Group for over a year and a half. Previously, he had been with Expekt.com in Malta and has 6 years experience in the online gaming industry. I met Joakim doing a panel on Social [...]
You are your ( social ) network The case of Noah Kravitz has hit front page and, rightly so. If you haven’t heard about it, you should read this article in the New York Times. In short, Noah Kravitz is being sued for damages – to the tune of $340,000 — by his former employer, PhoneDog [...]
Getting used to ambiguity in the world of digital marketing Last week, I wrote (post: Virtually Real) about the existential challenge for brand marketers to live with a whole assortment of ambiguities. These ambiguities center on the blurred line between the virtual and the real, otherwise known as the online and the offline. With increasing [...]
Oyé Oyé: managers listen up In the 16 years that I worked in the professional salon business around the world for L’Oreal (Redken, Kerastase…), I met a great number of extraordinary men and women who are hairdressers, several of whom I still count as close friends. Social beings by definition, the best hairdressers have a [...]
Two Nil (aka 2-0) as opposed to 2.0? I frequently hear the term Digital Marketing team. It makes me think that there is still an us versus them kind of mentality inside companies, where management is still not sure who should be responsible for “digital.” It is still the case in certain media companies as [...]
Everyone’s talking about it! So, why not to jump into digital media marketing? As much as there is all this hype about businesses getting into social media, there are still a vast majority of companies that have not made the step – and that’s perfectly normal if you consider that a majority of [especially smaller] [...]
Boxcar: A great notification management system I had the chance to interview Jonathan George, founder of the Boxcar (btw the url ends in .io) service. Boxcar is a rapidly growing system that allows you to centralize your notifications between Facebook, Twitter and a slew of other platforms (30 in total so far). Jonathan calls it a “real-time [...]
Gender & cultural differences abound After having attended the International Women’s Forum 2011 in Deauville, where I spoke about Muscling up one’s eReputation with the dynamic Caroline Ghosn (Slideshare presentation available here), I was happy to hear about a released study that confirmed that women and men tend to use social media differently. The study, [...]
