What Does Your Social Recruitment Say About Your Company?
PICTURE THIS: A POTENTIAL NEW RECRUIT HAS HEARD ABOUT YOUR COMPANY AND IS INTERESTED. THE FIRST THING SHE DOES IS A GOOGLE SEARCH… She finds the link to your main website. She also finds a few links...
View ArticleThe End of Twitter?
WHAT THE DEMISE OF BEBO (REMEMBER?) HAS SHOWN IS SOCIAL MEDIA DOMINANCE CAN COME AND GO AS FAST AS THE UK SUMMER. Facebook, Twitter and Linkedin have all established themselves as household names – as...
View ArticleNot all communication is a conversation
CONVERSATION IS A FORM OF COMMUNICATION. BUT NOT ALL COMMUNICATION IS A CONVERSATION. At a recent gathering of social media leaders in London, UK, from mostly large corporations, I heard many...
View ArticleWhat Sir Alex Ferguson Can Teach Us About Social Recruitment
AT THE HEART OF HIS PHILOSOPHY IS AN UNDERSTANDING FOR WHAT MAKES HUMANS HAPPY AND WILLING TO PERFORM For those of us lucky enough to have access to the BBC and the BBC iPlayer, the latest gem was an...
View ArticleThe Future of Banking: Customer Centric?
TECH START-UPS HAVE RADICALLY CHALLENGED JUST ABOUT ANY OTHER INDUSTRY OR SECTOR. CHANCES ARE THEY WILL PLAY A VITAL ROLE IN TRANSFORMING THE BANKING INDUSTRY TOO. According to a survey carried out by...
View ArticleThe Future of Banking: The end of Money?
SECCO CLAIMS THAT BANKING IS BROKEN. THE FINANCIAL CRISIS, THEY MAINTAIN, HAS SHOWN THAT TRADITIONAL BANKS ARE NO LONGER ON THE CUSTOMER’S SIDE. Have you heard of Secco? Chances are you haven’t. But...
View ArticleAugmented reality: What Is It? What Can It Be?
FAR FROM BEING A SIMPLE MARKETING TOOL, SUCH A TECHNOLOGY COULD HELP PEOPLE IN A MULTITUDE OF SITUATIONS AND WAYS. Definitions of Augmented Reality tend to be very limited: A live direct or indirect...
View ArticleVirtual Reality Is The Next Frontier For Retail
MOBILE-ENABLED VR PROVIDES COMPANIES LARGE AND SMALL WITH A WAY TO STRENGTHEN RELATIONSHIPS WITH EXISTING CUSTOMERS AND REACH NEW ONES ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD V-Commerce Brands are in the early stages...
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Neuromancer: William Gibson’s Virtual Reality Masterpiece
WILL NEW VIRTUAL REALITY TECHNOLOGIES CREATE ACTUAL PARALLEL REALITIES? BUY FROM AMAZON It’s been thirty-one years since William Gibson published his virtual reality masterpiece Neuromancer (1984)....
View ArticleWhat Does The Future Hold For Digital Healthcare?
HEALTHCARE FUTURES EVENT @ LEVEL 39 IN LONDON. 27 NOVEMBER. 9am – 5pm. MORE INFO Written by Bupa’s Chief Medical Officer Paul Zollinger-Read On Friday 27th November Bupa will be joining with partners...
View ArticlePredicting The Future of Healthcare
In an interview with Device Talk, internet pioneer and healthcare thinker Dr. John R. Patrick makes some interesting predictions about the future of healthcare technology. Here we synthesise some of...
View ArticleA Digital Healthcare Revolution – But For Whom?
If anyone has an idea of what the future of healthcare holds, Google Ventures CEO Bill Maris would be that person. The next thirty years, he claims, will see a revolution of the medical industry on a...
View ArticleDSMLF Radio#8: Paul Zollinger-Read, Chief Medical Officer for BUPA
Today I’m talking with Paul Zollinger-Read who is Bupa’s Chief Medical Officer where he is responsible for all clinical policies and decisions, including safety and quality, across Bupa’s global...
View ArticleMeet IBM’s Watson: Finding Insights in Chaos
You might have seen Bob Dylan chatting with IBM’s Watson in the Youtube ad. Watson says it’s read all of Dylan’s lyrics and has found that Dylan’s themes are the passing of time and the fading of love....
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The Future of Digital Healthcare Discussed and Explored!
This morning I spoke at the Digital and Social Media Leadership Forum in Canary Wharf for the Health Futures conversation. It was a brilliant session and we had lots of great insight from a range of...
View ArticleDigital’s Biggest Challenge: Tackling Online Bullying
I recently saw a webcast at #DigiKon15 where Caroline Criado-Perez talked about her experiences as a sufferer of online bullying. Her story is horrifying, but sadly just one of very many – most of...
View ArticleHow the Web Can Save the Climate
At this year’s UN climate conference in Paris something remarkable is happening: Some of the world’s richest and most influential people are launching a coalition to break the current fossil-fuel...
View ArticleUpgrading Might Be Tech’s Downfall
Many of us have had that sinking feeling lately: another version of a favourite tech tool is being launched, just as we’ve bought the previous one. In a recent post over on re/code, John Horn, CEO at...
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Our Emoji Future – How Words Will Fail and Images Win
Have you ever been misunderstood on social media? Have you ever tried irony online? In an email? And got it completely wrong? If your answer to any of the above is a resounding ‘yes’, then...
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Is Apple’s Golden Age Coming to an End?
I recently saw BBC’s 2011 documentary about Steve Jobs on Netflix. Not having seen the new Danny Boyle and Aaron Sorkin film, but wanting to, this was sort of my starter dish. (I confess: I haven’t...
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