This is a blog by Tina Jagla:
Me being on the internet started in Germany, in the summer of 2000 – I was 17 – when I was riding my bike the 7 kilometres to my friend’s place almost every day to explore this new and exciting wonder that was the internet. Swimming pools? Pah! We [...]
This is a blog by Tina Jagla:
“FACEBOOK WINS: Rage Against the Machine UK Christmas Number 1” was announced by Mashable last night. Who would have thought?
It was not only Facebook though, but also users on Twitter, countless bloggers and journalists in traditional media who picked the audacious campaign up and spread the word and thus [...]
Consumers are growing up and they don’t want their brands to shout at them any more.
If you’ve brought up kids, you’ll know what a culture shock it is when yours become adolescents. In my case, this time last year I had a gorgeous 13 yo daughter living in my house who was a joy to [...]
For as long as I can remember, ‘agency people’ have been put in convenient, clichéd boxes to enable recruiters and employers to categorise and filter the individuals they’re after. This goes something like:
The suits. Generally the account managers who liaise between the client and the agency. Also encompasses those involved in strategy, planning and new [...]
What is the digital switchover?
The digital switchover is the process of turning off the UK’s use of ineffective analogue marketing tactics and replacing it with a digital marketing strategy.
Why is it happening?
The digital switchover is a sensible policy. It will mean that every company and brand will be able to receive digital marketing services through [...]
A gravatar, or globally recognized avatar, is quite simply an image that follows you from site to site appearing beside your name when you make a comment. Avatars help identify your posts on blogs and web forums, so why not on any site?
There is a common dream (nightmare?) that many people have. You find yourself in a public place and then you realise you are naked. You panic and try and cover yourself or run away. Freudians have a field day with it.
I’ve realised that this is how many brand managers feel when contemplating social media or [...]
I recently spent some time researching the thoughts and ideas coming out of the think tanks around the world and have included within this blog some interesting views from Silicon Valley on where the web will be in 2020.
Juice Digital has created an online network of media, marketing and public relations professionals intent on staying up-to-date in Digital PR and creating best practice.
I remember being miffed when all these new so-called experts appeared. Oi! I was here first. Who are these bloody Tony Parsons and Julie Birchill – what do they know? Where were they when Nick Kent and Charles Shaar Murray were changing the face of music journalism?
I see a similar reaction from some of the early-adopters in digital marketing. A mild resentment towards the new kids on the block (not the band, that is). And a snootiness to old ‘new media’. A fashionable sneer at Facebook here, a condescending shake of the head at the Skittles experiment there. Now that’s only natural human behaviour but, if unrecognised, it can lead to tunnel vision.