Imagining the Future of Media Last week, I wrote about possible futures of social networking, in a near future so near that it could be the present itself. I used a 2×2 matrix with likely/ unlikely scenarios on the X-axis and negative/ positive scenarios on the Y-axis, leading to four scenarios. I said that the [...]
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Imagining the Future of Social Networking Now that we have a social network for one billion people in the world (Facebook), a social network for 150 of your most intimate friends (Path), and a social network just for your significant other (Pair); a social network for videos (YouTube), a social network for photos (Instagram) and [...]
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Imagining the Future of Media Last week, I wrote about possible futures of social networking, in a near future so near that it could be the present itself. I used a 2×2 matrix with likely/ unlikely scenarios on the X-axis and negative/ positive scenarios on the Y-axis, leading to four scenarios. I said that the [...]
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Imagining the Future of Social Networking Now that we have a social network for one billion people in the world (Facebook), a social network for 150 of your most intimate friends (Path), and a social network just for your significant other (Pair); a social network for videos (YouTube), a social network for photos (Instagram) and [...]
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Pascal Beucler, SVP & Chief Strategy Officer, MSLGROUP Gaurav Mishra, Asia Director of Social Media, MSLGROUP The Power of Crowdsourcing Insights and Innovation According to the recent PwC CEO Survey of 1200+ business leaders across 69 countries, business leaders believe that crowdsourcing people’s insights are one of the main drivers for leading innovation and change. [...]
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(Here’s a book chapter I wrote for Empodera.org almost two years back.) Social Technologies and Power Structures The debate on whether internet and mobile technologies are transforming traditional power structures is dominated by three divergent narratives. According to the first, utopian, narrative, internet and mobile technologies enable individuals to publish and distribute content, self-organize into [...]
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(Here’s a book chapter I wrote for Empodera.org almost two years back.) Social Technologies and Power Structures The debate on whether internet and mobile technologies are transforming traditional power structures is dominated by three divergent narratives. According to the first, utopian, narrative, internet and mobile technologies enable individuals to publish and distribute content, self-organize into [...]
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Marketers have always used stories to share information, change opinions and influence decisions. Now, as people create, consume and share brand stories in new ways, marketers need to go beyond the 30-sec product ad or the 300-word press release, and tell purpose-inspired transmedia stories that inspire, organize and energize people. Six Trends in Storytelling Let’s [...]
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Marketers have always used stories to share information, change opinions and influence decisions. Now, as people create, consume and share brand stories in new ways, marketers need to go beyond the 30-sec product ad or the 300-word press release, and tell purpose-inspired transmedia stories that inspire, organize and energize people. Six Trends in Storytelling Let’s [...]
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Pascal Beucler, SVP & Chief Strategy Officer, MSLGROUP Gaurav Mishra, Asia Director of Social Media, MSLGROUP The Power of People’s Insights According to the recent PwC CEO Survey of 1200+ business leaders across 69 countries, business leaders believe that crowdsourcing people’s insights are one of the main drivers for leading innovation and change. We have [...]
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