Philip Sheldrake

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12 February 2010 / 1 Comment

Friday Roundup – the Semantic Web

So-called "Web 2.0" dominated the last decade. This decade be prepared for "Web 3.0". Why the quotes?... well these terms are loosely defined at best, but remain useful as signposts of major change.

Most pundits associate 3.0 with something called the Semantic Web. Effectively, if Web 2.0 was about community and content, then Web 3.0 / the Semantic Web is about understanding the meaning of those social contributions and content.

Importantly, Web 3.0 is going to have as big an impact on what it means to practice marketing and public relations as Web 2.0. The implications are widespread and interlinked, which is not surprising when something called LinkedData is a sub-set of the Semantic Web. Read more

29 January 2010 / 0 Comments

Friday Roundup – the New Rules

I learn something every day as I help moderate MarCom Professional.

This week I was most intrigued by the idea that Google could add adverts to Google Streetview... both static and moving images in what constitutes a sort of augmented-virtual-reality I guess. AVR? Thanks to Michael Litman for flagging this.

As always, Brian Solis has a couple of cracking posts this week, one on the socialization of email marketing, and another on the stages of social media integration in business, which shares some of the outlook of aspects of the Influence Scorecard initiative.

I'd obviously recommend MarCom Professional for keeping up to speed on how marketing and PR have been and are being transformed. And if you're looking for a comprehensive resource that's insightful and digestible, I whole heartedly recommend The New Rules of Marketing and PR by MarCom Professional member David Meerman Scott. Read more

15 January 2010 / 0 Comments

Friday Roundup – the Forget Web

If the end of the last decade was all about the massive growth in the social Web, the beginning of this one will witness considerable emphasis on social Web analytics... the application of search, indexing, semantic analysis and business intelligence technologies to the task of identifying, tracking, listening to and participating in the distributed conversations about a particular brand, product or issue.

It's a busy market, but with Visible Technologies pinning down $22m in C series funding this week, things are starting to get serious.

Brian Solis discusses the social network advertising and marketing outlook for 2010 this week, and Michael Litman has been good enough to share a presentation by Charlene Li with us about the future of social networks. Unfortunately, Charlene's presentation stops short of discussing the need for consumer facing (high mention volume) brands to adopt analytics, although it does reference the associated redesign of organisational workflow that's demanded. Read more

18 December 2009 / 0 Comments

Friday Roundup – the Newspaper Licensing Agency

It's the time of year when everyone is tempted to look backward and forward. The Newspaper Licensing Agency appears to be the exception to the rule, by looking forward and thinking backward.

For those who haven't followed the debate, here's a summary... the NLA, gawd bless'em and the past Century they still live in, has adapted its terms to charge parties for clicking on hyperlinks to content on their members' websites.

That might not have sunk in on a cursory read. You might think I have mistyped or something. But yes, you did read it right... I know, it's incredible isn't it. If you are sent a hyperlink to coverage on a newspaper website, you have to pay the NLA a license fee to click on it! More exclamation marks warranted!!! Read more

4 December 2009 / 0 Comments

Friday Roundup – the social Web bigger than social media

I had the pleasure of being interviewed by David Meerman Scott recently for his next book. (Do you know that "The New Rules of Marketing and PR" has been translated into 24 languages?!)

David had just been speaking at Dow Jones' launch of their new Media Relations Manager, and like all accomplished speakers he conveyed some serious points of view interspersed with the more light-hearted observations (the one about "Who are hell are these people?!" got people laughing).

We spent most of our time talking about the Influence Scorecard (see my post this week) and the expansion of "social". By this I mean that the social Web is bigger than social media, even though the terms are often treated as synonyms. The social Web encompasses social (non-traditional / non-industrial) media, but also applications such as Tweetdeck and iPhone apps, services such as social assisted search and location-based services, and the network itself... which is becoming the Internet of Things. Read more

20 November 2009 / 2 Comments

Friday Roundup – Monitoring Social Media 09

The Monitoring Social Media 09 event this week was a 'standing-room-only' event. And I particularly enjoyed the presentations from Marshall Sponder, Giles Palmer, Brad Little and Katy Howell.

Here is a couple of points I made in my participation of the panel debating the future of social media monitoring.

Firstly, this sector will broaden its focus. I define social media as being a subset of the social Web, so the social Web = social media (blogs, facebook, twitter) + apps (tweetdeck, skype) + services (geo-location, social search) + the network (including the Internet of Things). Then things get really interesting!

Secondly, there are more than 70 vendors in this space, and commoditisation has effectively made data, indexing, simple analysis and pretty charts FREE. The conclusive step in this process will be Google's entry into social media monitoring, which I think might happen the first quarter of next year. Read more

6 November 2009 / 0 Comments

Friday Roundup 6th November 2009

As the UK's first appointment to the new role of storytelling laureate said self-deprecatingly this week on the Today programme, listening is more important than speaking, else we'd have two tongues and just one ear of course.

With that in mind, and having read all of this week's top contributions to MarCom Professional, I'm going to shut up and leave you to browse amongst them.

Best regards, Philip and the MarCom Professional team. Read more

23 October 2009 / 6 Comments

Friday Roundup – the BNP on Question Time

Nick Griffin, leader of the (racist, facist) British National Party, appeared on a prime time BBC news programme last night, Question Time.

It is hard to say which of the decision to do so or the content of the programme itself was most controversial. The event has most definitely generated serious heat, before, during and after, with Google News reporting in excess of 3000 stories on the matter.

The BNP is democratically elected, with two Members of the European Parliament, and that gives their leader a mandate to appear on a national TV funded by the electorate to convey his views and his policies. Read more

9 October 2009 / 0 Comments

Friday Roundup – Monitoring Social Media 09

I thought I'd highlight some great contributions on the subject of mobile in today's MarCom Professional Friday Roundup, and then point you to an event covering a topic close to my heart, social Web analytics (my ebook on the topic is here).

So, first up, the ever vigilant Andrew Grill always points his readers to useful stuff. This time it's the latest publication from Bena Roberts at GoMo News, a collection of insightful essays on all things mobile.

And David Knowles aims to inject a dose of realism into the iPhone app craze. If you're intent on getting an app out there, here's what you should know about what's working and what isn't.

Monitoring Social Media 09 is bringing together social media monitoring experts and suppliers with PR and marketing professionals for a one-day conference in London on 17th November 2009. Speakers from Nielsen Buzzmetrics, Market Sentinel, Brandwatch, Edelman, The Conversation Group, and the UK's #1 PR blogger, Neville Hobson, will be discussing issues such as ROI, sentiment analysis, reputation management, infuence detection and data quality. (There's an early bird ticket until 17th Oct.)

I'll see you there.

Best regards, Philip and the MarCom Professional team. Read more

25 September 2009 / 0 Comments

Friday Roundup 25th September 2009

I need your clicks.

You see, I've been offline for ten weeks and handed the mantle of the Friday Roundups to Andrew Smith, as you will have noted. Thanks Andrew. But he appears to have grown the open and click rates in that short time faster than we were doing before he sprinkled his magic copywriter dust. Which is pleasingly irritating ;-)

(If you need someone who 'gets' the social Web, understands online communities and every Google Web tool under the cloud, he's your man. Damn fine social media trainer too by all accounts.)

But I digress. I have to acquit myself now that Andrew and I will be alternating on the Roundups. So perhaps I can tempt you with the following morsels as you scroll down towards the long list... Read more

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