July 2007 - Posts

• Making Money on Facebook: Blackmail?

  Over on Mark Ramskill's blog, Jawad Shuaib suggests 5 ways to make money on Facebook . Develop and sell your own Facebook applications Develop Facebook applications for third parties Advertise Sell services using micropayments Get investment for your Read More... Posted 27 July 2007 10:15 by Niall Cook | 0 Comments Filed under: Social Media

• More Corporate B****cks

  I loved Jeff Nolan's "Corporate Doublespeak" translations : Total Customer Experience = we want our customers to like us in addition to our products/services. Strategic = it’s important. Synergistic = by doing something extra we’ll get more Read More... Posted 27 July 2007 09:27 by Niall Cook | 1 Comments Filed under: Miscellaneous

• What is influence anyway?

  Edelman's attempts to create a methodology for measuring social media influence flashed past my RSS reader yesterday. Only today when someone asked what I thought about it did I take a look in more detail. Here's my take: We need to find a way to let Read More... Posted 20 July 2007 17:16 by Niall Cook | 2 Comments Filed under: Social Media

• Leo Bellini's Blog of the Week

  My Italian isn't so hot, but I recognise a compliment when I see one. Leo Bellini names Collective Conversation his blog of the week (or at least I hope that's what Il blog della settimana means). Thanks Leo. Read More... Posted 12 July 2007 14:28 by Niall Cook | 2 Comments Filed under: Collective Conversation

• 46% of US companies have no plans to use blogs

  I have a slightly different take on a report from Forrester that was forwarded to me, titled "A Majority Of Firms Are At Least Considering Blogs" . They asked 275 IT managers and IT executives (arguably the wrong people, but more on that later) the question, Read More... Posted 06 July 2007 13:35 by Niall Cook | 2 Comments Filed under: Marketing Technology

• iPhone iDrone = iPathy?

  Is it me, or is the constant barrage of self-serving blog and twitter posts about the iPhone starting to create so much noise that you just want to tune it all out? Read More... Posted 06 July 2007 09:23 by Niall Cook | 2 Comments Filed under: Miscellaneous, Personal