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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" media="screen" href="/~d/styles/rss2full.xsl"?><?xml-stylesheet type="text/css" media="screen" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~d/styles/itemcontent.css"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/" xmlns:feedburner="http://rssnamespace.org/feedburner/ext/1.0" version="2.0"><channel><title>TheNewMarketing</title><link>http://thenewmarketing.com/blogs/default.aspx</link><description /><dc:language>en-US</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2.0 (Debug Build: 60217.2664)</generator><atom10:link xmlns:atom10="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" rel="self" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/Thenewmarketing" type="application/rss+xml" /><atom10:link xmlns:atom10="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com" /><item><title>What are the attributes of the perfect virtual event?</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Thenewmarketing/~3/ET3dFgOIzI8/10776.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 08:23:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">602bc1b6-9985-44a0-ad39-0a8a39d22f58:10776</guid><dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator><slash:comments>2</slash:comments><description>&lt;P&gt;I didn't know this was going to be virtual events week, or I'd have posted a warning. But to&amp;nbsp;wrap up&amp;nbsp;previous posts on &lt;A href="/blogs/steve_ellis/archive/2009/06/23/10768.aspx"&gt;Tuesday &lt;/A&gt;and &lt;A href="/blogs/steve_ellis/archive/2009/06/24/10769.aspx"&gt;Wednesday&lt;/A&gt;, here are some more thoughts.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;In terms of evolving the virtual event model, one part of the&amp;nbsp;challenge is to free the imagination of the architects or directors&amp;nbsp;of events who, inevitably, are very often looking through the prism of&amp;nbsp;a traditional events background.&amp;nbsp;Not surprisingly, people stick to what they know. They also need to migrate audiences who&amp;nbsp;genuinely enjoy the comfort of familiar event formats. So&amp;nbsp;it makes sense to use traditional event paradigms to engage them.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;In these circumstances it is understandable why most virtual events start life by mirroring the trusted formats of physical events. &lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Interesting then to&amp;nbsp;read this post - &lt;A href="http://gerdde.wordpress.com/2009/06/22/the-future-of-virtual-conferences/"&gt;The Future of Virtual Conferences&lt;/A&gt; - which&amp;nbsp;expresses a similar desire to find the Holy Grail of virtual events&amp;nbsp;- it is from Gerd de Bruycker, one of the central marketing team at Microsoft. Now Gerd, really &lt;EM&gt;does&lt;/EM&gt; know about running big successful events,&amp;nbsp;but in his post he is quite open about still searching for the formula for success in virtual events. &lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;To speed up that search, Gerd started to list a few ideas&amp;nbsp;for the elements&amp;nbsp;of a great virtual event. Take a look - what would you add?&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Perhaps&amp;nbsp;what&amp;nbsp;is needed&amp;nbsp;is a non-tech, risk taking&amp;nbsp;brand (a Red Bull or a Virgin?) to push the current models forwards.&amp;nbsp;They would be&amp;nbsp;free of legacy thinking; could push the amazing technologies we have available today to the limit&amp;nbsp;of their capabilities; take some risks around interactivity to better engage youthful&amp;nbsp;digital native audiences; and liberate the rich content that originates within events, through more compelling user experiences. &lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;To evolve the current model,&amp;nbsp;boundaries need to be broken. &lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Perhaps examples already exist?&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;If you know of examples, point me to them.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Tags: &lt;A href="http://technorati.com/tag/virtual+events" rel=tag&gt;virtual events&lt;/A&gt;, &lt;A href="http://technorati.com/tag/Gerd+de+Bruycker" rel=tag&gt;Gerd de Brucker&lt;/A&gt;, &lt;A href="http://technorati.com/tag/microsoft" rel=tag&gt;Microsoft&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;img src="http://thenewmarketing.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=10776" width="1" height="1"&gt;&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://thenewmarketing.com/blogs/steve_ellis/archive/2009/06/25/10776.aspx</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>More on virtual events: the need to evolve current models</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Thenewmarketing/~3/8Zk4BTK3siY/10769.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 17:20:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">602bc1b6-9985-44a0-ad39-0a8a39d22f58:10769</guid><dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator><slash:comments>2</slash:comments><description>&lt;P&gt;Yesterday I posted on feedback from Judith Hurwitz and James Governor on their experiences of attending virtual events. Extending some of those thoughts, Judith's summary, which James also endorsed,&amp;nbsp;was:&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;EM&gt;1. Virtual conferences need really good planning and execution. It cannot simply be a disconnected voice with some slides on a shared screen. That is called a conference call.&lt;/EM&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;EM&gt;2. Streaming or live video is wonderful but it needs to have the technology foundation so that it will work no matter what the customer/participant’s environment happens to be.&lt;/EM&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;EM&gt;3. If virtual conferences are to work they have to be conferences.&amp;nbsp; I don’t think that we have good models for executing virtual conferences that work. They need to be electric, informative, and have interactivity.&amp;nbsp; Right now the virtual meeting is not a true model. It is simply old execution applied to a new idea.&lt;/EM&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BLOCKQUOTE&gt;
&lt;P&gt;I'd agree with most of the above. With the possible exception of the last couple of sentences.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Taking the points in order:&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Yes, just like face-to-face conferences, virtual events need great planning and preparation. We have a specialist virtual events team and, just like our live events team, they often have to tell clients that unless the content is interesting and presentation is top quality,&amp;nbsp;it doesn't matter if the event is virtual or not, it will flop.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Yes, the technology needs to just work. This actually becomes more critical the smaller the size of audience. With thousands of&amp;nbsp;visitors online no-one notices if ten people drop off, but with just thirty visitors,&amp;nbsp;losing ten would distract all the participants and send the event down a cul de sac.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Regarding the last couple of sentences:&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;EM&gt;Right now the virtual meeting is not a true model. It is simply old execution applied to a new idea.&lt;/EM&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BLOCKQUOTE&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Yes,&amp;nbsp;that is probably an accurate view of the typical virtual event today. But&amp;nbsp;I would say that the organizations that are running and hosting frequent virtual events - the Microsoft's and Cisco's - are rapidly gathering the practical knowhow, the technology platforms and the conceptual frameworks or execution models, that will achieve success.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Tags: &lt;A href="http://technorati.com/tag/virtual+events" rel=tag&gt;virtual events&lt;/A&gt;, &lt;A href="http://technorati.com/tag/judith+hurwitz" rel=tag&gt;Judith Hurwitz&lt;/A&gt;, &lt;A href="http://technorati.com/tag/redmonk" rel=tag&gt;Redmonk&lt;/A&gt;, &lt;A href="http://technorati.com/tag/James%20Governor" rel=tag&gt;James Governor&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;img src="http://thenewmarketing.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=10769" width="1" height="1"&gt;&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://thenewmarketing.com/blogs/steve_ellis/archive/2009/06/24/10769.aspx</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Analysts' view of virtual events: less travelling, less cost, less carbon</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Thenewmarketing/~3/MNt_7DPyF_I/10768.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 16:54:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">602bc1b6-9985-44a0-ad39-0a8a39d22f58:10768</guid><dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator><slash:comments>2</slash:comments><description>&lt;P&gt;Some informed opinions from two industry analysts - &lt;A href="http://www.redmonk.com/jgovernor/"&gt;James Governor&lt;/A&gt;, &lt;A href="http://redmonk.com/"&gt;Redmonk &lt;/A&gt;and &lt;A href="http://jshurwitz.wordpress.com/about/"&gt;Judith Hurwitz&lt;/A&gt;, &lt;A href="http://www.hurwitz.com/index.php"&gt;Hurwitz &amp;amp; Associates&lt;/A&gt;, on success factors for virtual events. &lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Judith posted: &lt;A href="http://jshurwitz.wordpress.com/2009/06/11/whats-the-future-of-the-virtual-conference/"&gt;What's the future of the virtual conference?&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;James posted: &lt;A href="http://www.redmonk.com/jgovernor/2009/06/19/cisco-and-microsoft-virtual-analyst-conferences/"&gt;Cisco and Microsoft virtual analyst conferences&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;The back story is that Microsoft's Server and Tools Business (STB) held a virtual conference for analysts. Although a Microsoft event (which is a customer),&amp;nbsp;we weren't involved in this one&amp;nbsp;(big company, lots of initiatives going on, etc).&amp;nbsp;Clearly, Cisco did likewise.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Both Judith and James&amp;nbsp;highlight the main payoff for virtual events: less travelling, less cost, less carbon. &lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;But to achieve those benefits&amp;nbsp;trade offs need to be made.&amp;nbsp;A virtual event is a different kind of experience, one that shouldn't be judged in a straight comparison with physical equivalent events.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;I suspect because of the size of the analyst universe, these events&amp;nbsp;were in the&amp;nbsp;hundred or less attendees ballpark, rather than in the multiple thousands seen at big virtual launches. Obviously the number of online participants dramatically effects how much interactivity is desirable and can be managed effectively.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;We are beginning to see different execution models for virtual events with requests falling into two categories:&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;UL&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;Those with thousands of online visitors, where interaction is part of building buzz in and around the event and the activities that take place at it, but quality discussion has to be handled outside the main virtual presentations, in breakouts and supporting sessions. 
&lt;LI&gt;And smaller events aimed at around 50 or less visitors, who are usually known to the client, where sessions can be interactively moderated and meaningful Q&amp;amp;A takes place efficiently. &lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/UL&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Assuming that there would have been a considerable number of highly knowledgeable and critical tech analysts at each event (it was possible to track some of their activity through associated Twitter hashtags), it would be great to read more feedback from analysts on their virtual event experience. &lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Any feedback can only help advance the quality of the virtual event experience faster.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Tags: &lt;A href="http://technorati.com/tag/virtual+events" rel=tag&gt;virtual events&lt;/A&gt;, &lt;A href="http://technorati.com/tag/judith+hurwitz" rel=tag&gt;Judith Hurwitz&lt;/A&gt;, &lt;A href="http://technorati.com/tag/redmonk" rel=tag&gt;Redmonk&lt;/A&gt;, &lt;A href="http://technorati.com/tag/James Governor" rel=tag&gt;James Governor&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;img src="http://thenewmarketing.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=10768" width="1" height="1"&gt;&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://thenewmarketing.com/blogs/steve_ellis/archive/2009/06/23/10768.aspx</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>The Guardian: crowdsourcing for a public purpose</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Thenewmarketing/~3/PoCkJZV5QUo/10761.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 21:44:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">602bc1b6-9985-44a0-ad39-0a8a39d22f58:10761</guid><dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><description>&lt;P&gt;If there is a prize for the&amp;nbsp;best use of social technology in reinventing journalism*, then I reckon&amp;nbsp;the Guardian is&amp;nbsp;a front runner&amp;nbsp;with it's &lt;A href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/jun/21/mps-expenses-crowd-sourcing-data"&gt;crowdsourcing initiative to review MP's expenses&lt;/A&gt;, explained&amp;nbsp;&lt;A href="http://mps-expenses.guardian.co.uk/"&gt;here&lt;/A&gt;.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;I'm impressed with the work done by the Guardian in recent months and&amp;nbsp;have commented on&amp;nbsp;this before. &lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;For me, the direction taken by the Guardian contrasts with the range of work done by other media organizations. While others seem to be looking to apply technologies to sustain their audience base or transition advertising franchises, the Guardian seems to be applying technology spontaneously and inventively for purposes that fit the tool.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;The irony is that the Guardian's Datastore initiative appears to be ahead of anything done by the Government itself (or anything I have seen from the BBC for that matter). &lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;*yes, if there was such a prize, the use of information gathered via&amp;nbsp;#iranelection would be in the running too&lt;/P&gt;&lt;img src="http://thenewmarketing.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=10761" width="1" height="1"&gt;&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;</description><category domain="http://thenewmarketing.com/blogs/steve_ellis/archive/category/1056.aspx">Media</category><category domain="http://thenewmarketing.com/blogs/steve_ellis/archive/category/1059.aspx">Technology</category><feedburner:origLink>http://thenewmarketing.com/blogs/steve_ellis/archive/2009/06/22/10761.aspx</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>TechNet UK goes virtual June 19th</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Thenewmarketing/~3/cQ6UnqypP4Q/10663.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 07:40:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">602bc1b6-9985-44a0-ad39-0a8a39d22f58:10663</guid><dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator><slash:comments>1</slash:comments><description>&lt;P&gt;&lt;A href="/photos/global/picture10664.aspx" target=_blank&gt;&lt;IMG style="PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; FLOAT: left" src="/photos/global/images/10664/thumb.aspx" border=0&gt;&lt;/A&gt;Great to see Microsoft's UK&amp;nbsp;operation&amp;nbsp;making the most&amp;nbsp;of the company's&amp;nbsp;virtual events platform (mentioned a few times by me, including first of all&amp;nbsp;&lt;A href="/blogs/steve_ellis/archive/2008/02/27/5391.aspx"&gt;here&lt;/A&gt;).&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Why go virtual? My view is &lt;A href="/blogs/steve_ellis/archive/2009/01/14/10575.aspx"&gt;here&lt;/A&gt;. &lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Or in the words of&amp;nbsp;TechNet UK:&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;EM&gt;... helping you to cut costs, increase efficiency and reduce environmental impact, whilst still getting all the latest information you need on Microsoft technologies and technology insights.&lt;/EM&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BLOCKQUOTE&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Sounds like&amp;nbsp;enough good reasons to me.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Find out more &lt;A href="http://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/dd819085.aspx"&gt;here &lt;/A&gt;or better still tune in on June 19th.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Tags: &lt;A href="http://technorati.com/tag/TechNet" rel=tag&gt;TechNet&lt;/A&gt;, &lt;A href="http://technorati.com/tag/Microsoft" rel=tag&gt;Microsoft&lt;/A&gt;, &lt;A href="http://technorati.com/tag/virtual+events" rel=tag&gt;virtual events&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;img src="http://thenewmarketing.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=10663" width="1" height="1"&gt;&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;</description><category domain="http://thenewmarketing.com/blogs/steve_ellis/archive/category/1054.aspx">Marketing</category><feedburner:origLink>http://thenewmarketing.com/blogs/steve_ellis/archive/2009/06/15/10663.aspx</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Follow the Brits</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Thenewmarketing/~3/TqX7LUjfqRM/10683.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 07:07:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">602bc1b6-9985-44a0-ad39-0a8a39d22f58:10683</guid><dc:creator>Peter Springett</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><description>&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;Every now and then you do have to take your hat off to a new mash up.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;This time the cunning people at Vodafone have hooked up with Ben Marsh who created the #uksnow map a few months ago. The new map uses Twitter hash tags to create a map that shows &lt;A href="http://www.ukholsmap.com/#"&gt;where Brits plan to take their 2009&amp;nbsp;holidays.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;The smart bit? You simply update your Twitter account with with the #ukhols tag along with a holiday destination.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;But you are also asked to enter age, gender and postcode. Valuable data for Vodafone, which is using the site to promote changes to roaming charges this summer.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;It's also significant that in the wake of the recent &lt;A href="http://www.businessweek.com/managing/content/jun2009/ca2009062_071263.htm?campaign_id=rss_daily"&gt;Harvard report &lt;/A&gt;into Twitter usage, one global organisation is&amp;nbsp;using a smart campaign to promote an offer AND capture reliable Twitter demographic data. As Steve Ellis points out in &lt;A HREF="/blogs/steve_ellis/archive/2009/06/09/10672.aspx"&gt;his recent post&lt;/A&gt;, its all about understanding rather than broad perceptions. &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;Disclosure: Vodafone is a client, but not this part of their business.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://thenewmarketing.com/blogs/peter_springett/archive/2009/06/12/10683.aspx</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Digital magazines: it's all about interactivity</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Thenewmarketing/~3/FzNTTOc5jHQ/10680.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 15:38:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">602bc1b6-9985-44a0-ad39-0a8a39d22f58:10680</guid><dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><description>&lt;P&gt;A few months back we announced the PageLife platform for producing e-Magazines - or digital magazines - built using Microsoft Silverlight technology. So it is interesting to note a couple of pieces around the topic of e-Magazines. &lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;ReadWriteWeb has penned - &lt;A href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/digital_magazines_has_their_time_come.php"&gt;the Digital Magazine: Has its Time Come? &lt;/A&gt;- prompted by the demise of the print format PC Magazine in favour of a digital only edition. In fact RWW takes a dim view of the digital version PC Magazine.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;EM&gt;We perused the June edition, but didn't see a lot of interactivity. Also many of the hyperlinks simply opened up pages in PC Magazine's website. A letter from a reader in the feedback section of this issue noted how he likes to print out parts of the digital PC Magazine. That implies to us that PC Magazine hasn't fully escaped the shackles of print. In fact it seems very much like the print magazine simply transplanted into an eBook. The magazine has plenty of fans, and is known for its reviews, however, it still has a few tricks to learn about digital magazines by the look of it.&lt;/EM&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BLOCKQUOTE&gt;
&lt;P&gt;RWW did reference much better examples, in particular &lt;A href="http://www.avantoure.com/"&gt;Avantoure&lt;/A&gt;,&amp;nbsp;a lifestyle magazine that started life exclusively as a digital edition. Avantoure looks to have an interactive&amp;nbsp;design team that are digital natives and operate free&amp;nbsp;from&amp;nbsp;any print legacy. &lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;This point links to the second post from&amp;nbsp;MediaWeek on &lt;A href="http://www.mediaweek.com/mw/content_display/news/magazines-newspapers/e3iedade07084ff1159fd17e6bd6e49d7df"&gt;Buyers Wary of Electronic Subs Counted into Circulation Stats&lt;/A&gt;. The piece quotes media buyers as complaining that digital editions aren't worth the paper they are not written on.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;EM&gt;Scott Daly, executive vp, executive media director, Dentsu America, said he sees “absolutely no value whatsoever” to digital editions and that if he were negotiating with a magazine that sells digital subs as part of its circ, “we would probably discount it, because a digital version of a magazine is not the reason we’d go into a magazine.”&lt;/EM&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BLOCKQUOTE&gt;
&lt;P&gt;I agree. Sticking a passive ad inside a sealed PDF&amp;nbsp;to be despatched to free circulation oblivion&amp;nbsp;would be a waste of money. The point is media buyers need to capitalize upon the opportunity for interactivity to get the best from the medium. &lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;That's just what Mediacom did by asking us to help their client Seat&amp;nbsp;with&amp;nbsp;&lt;A href="/blogs/steve_ellis/archive/2009/03/31/10631.aspx"&gt;this example &lt;/A&gt;of an e-Magazine created for a recent Seat car launch.&amp;nbsp;We pushed for&amp;nbsp;rich interactivity, Seat agreed, and&amp;nbsp;loved the results. Shortly, we should be able to share a few of the performance analytics. The lead conversion rates are most noteworthy, they are much&amp;nbsp;higher than we'd normally expect from a&amp;nbsp;microsite (although the work of Mediacom and MSN in targetting would have played role too). &lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Several more PageLife based e-Magazines are in the pipeline. We'll keep an eye on performance and report back.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Tags: &lt;A href="http://technorati.com/tag/PC+Magazine" rel=tag&gt;PC Magazine&lt;/A&gt;, &lt;A href="http://technorati.com/tag/e-magazines" rel=tag&gt;e-Magazines&lt;/A&gt;, &lt;A href="http://technorati.com/tag/avantoure" rel=tag&gt;Avantoure&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/A&gt;&lt;img src="http://thenewmarketing.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=10680" width="1" height="1"&gt;&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Thenewmarketing?a=FzNTTOc5jHQ:e90IFxt5b4k:yIl2AUoC8zA"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Thenewmarketing?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Thenewmarketing?a=FzNTTOc5jHQ:e90IFxt5b4k:2mJPEYqXBVI"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Thenewmarketing?d=2mJPEYqXBVI" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Thenewmarketing?a=FzNTTOc5jHQ:e90IFxt5b4k:7Q72WNTAKBA"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Thenewmarketing?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;</description><category domain="http://thenewmarketing.com/blogs/steve_ellis/archive/category/1054.aspx">Marketing</category><category domain="http://thenewmarketing.com/blogs/steve_ellis/archive/category/1056.aspx">Media</category><category domain="http://thenewmarketing.com/blogs/steve_ellis/archive/category/1059.aspx">Technology</category><feedburner:origLink>http://thenewmarketing.com/blogs/steve_ellis/archive/2009/06/11/10680.aspx</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Posts on Where Next for PR? (again)</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Thenewmarketing/~3/RNbmSlagJ2g/10679.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 06:42:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">602bc1b6-9985-44a0-ad39-0a8a39d22f58:10679</guid><dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><description>&lt;P&gt;Couple of interesting contributions to the ongoing discussion about what PR will look like in the future. They are from quite different perspectives too, one an ex FT journalist now earning a living via new media, the other from the head of a global PR agency.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Tom Foremski of &lt;A href="http://www.siliconvalleywatcher.com/"&gt;SVW&amp;nbsp;&lt;/A&gt;has posted on &lt;A href="http://www.siliconvalleywatcher.com/mt/archives/2009/06/the_new_rules_i.php"&gt;The New Rules in PR&lt;/A&gt;. I don't agree with all his assertions, although many are correct. I do agree with&amp;nbsp;the general thrust: that everything is changing, so you'd better change too.&amp;nbsp;Tom promises to continue and expand the discussion, so worth staying connected.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Richard Edelman posted on &lt;A href="http://www.edelman.com/speak_up/blog/archives/2009/06/pr_in_a_world_o.html"&gt;PR in a World of Expression&lt;/A&gt;. This has a slight public policy and public engagement slant because of the conference Richard was speaking at. Again, I wouldn't agree with everything Richard says but he does make some good points. All aspects of traditional PR aren't going to go away, however much some observers might want them to. But they will change, they should have changed already,&amp;nbsp;and the shape and skills needed inside agencies in particular will evolve most radically.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;I've posted thoughts around this topic before too. These two posts might have inspired me to dust some of them off and&amp;nbsp;update them.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Tags: &lt;A href="http://technorati.com/tag/PR" rel=tag&gt;PR&lt;/A&gt;, &lt;A href="http://technorati.com/tag/tom+foremski" rel=tag&gt;Tom Foremski&lt;/A&gt;, &lt;A href="http://technorati.com/tag/richard+edelman" rel=tag&gt;Richard Edelman&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;img src="http://thenewmarketing.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=10679" width="1" height="1"&gt;&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Thenewmarketing?a=RNbmSlagJ2g:OZFxU2HXxPU:yIl2AUoC8zA"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Thenewmarketing?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Thenewmarketing?a=RNbmSlagJ2g:OZFxU2HXxPU:2mJPEYqXBVI"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Thenewmarketing?d=2mJPEYqXBVI" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Thenewmarketing?a=RNbmSlagJ2g:OZFxU2HXxPU:7Q72WNTAKBA"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Thenewmarketing?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;</description><category domain="http://thenewmarketing.com/blogs/steve_ellis/archive/category/1056.aspx">Media</category><category domain="http://thenewmarketing.com/blogs/steve_ellis/archive/category/1057.aspx">PR</category><feedburner:origLink>http://thenewmarketing.com/blogs/steve_ellis/archive/2009/06/11/10679.aspx</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Online advertising: the least worst place to be (if you have to be in advertising, that is)</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Thenewmarketing/~3/Pem96iqVcr4/10674.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 13:42:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">602bc1b6-9985-44a0-ad39-0a8a39d22f58:10674</guid><dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator><slash:comments>3</slash:comments><description>&lt;P&gt;A few sources have published data points highlighting the hiccup in the growth of online advertising. Mostly they are referring to 'traditional' online banner advertising, so whether that spend is now sneaking off to slightly newer 'online' channels and techniques isn't clear.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Also, just take a look at the chart below from Neilsen Co via eMarketer on US Ad spend growth. Yes, online display stutters downward by 3.4% but look at the state of everything below it. The B2B magazine figure is 29.9% down.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;The most interesting thought is that this is never going to come back. This isn't a dip, it's a one way ride. &lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Traditional media -&amp;nbsp;in it's traditional formats -&amp;nbsp;is scuppered. The economy might turn a corner but marketers will have moved on to more accountable ways to spend their marketing dollars, and they won't be returning to the old world.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Things will have changed forever. The only direction is onwards into a digital based future.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;A href="/photos/global/picture10675.aspx" target=_blank&gt;&lt;IMG style="PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; FLOAT: left" src="/photos/global/images/10675/thumb.aspx" border=0&gt;&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;img src="http://thenewmarketing.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=10674" width="1" height="1"&gt;&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Thenewmarketing?a=Pem96iqVcr4:uPm0awb9QbY:yIl2AUoC8zA"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Thenewmarketing?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Thenewmarketing?a=Pem96iqVcr4:uPm0awb9QbY:2mJPEYqXBVI"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Thenewmarketing?d=2mJPEYqXBVI" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Thenewmarketing?a=Pem96iqVcr4:uPm0awb9QbY:7Q72WNTAKBA"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Thenewmarketing?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;</description><category domain="http://thenewmarketing.com/blogs/steve_ellis/archive/category/1054.aspx">Marketing</category><category domain="http://thenewmarketing.com/blogs/steve_ellis/archive/category/1056.aspx">Media</category><feedburner:origLink>http://thenewmarketing.com/blogs/steve_ellis/archive/2009/06/10/10674.aspx</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Harvard Business Publishing data deflates the Twitter bubble</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Thenewmarketing/~3/Fp4lPsI8J9I/10672.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2009 21:56:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">602bc1b6-9985-44a0-ad39-0a8a39d22f58:10672</guid><dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator><slash:comments>2</slash:comments><description>&lt;P&gt;Harvard Business Publishing&amp;nbsp;&lt;A href="http://blogs.harvardbusiness.org/cs/2009/06/new_twitter_research_men_follo.html"&gt;shared&lt;/A&gt; some research on Twitter usage last week. The data gave ammunition to PC World among others, to deflate the Twitter bubble, just a little bit at least. &lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;A href="http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/166118/study_shows_twitter_is_a_broadcast_medium.html?tk=rel_news"&gt;According &lt;/A&gt;to David Coursey at PC World:&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Across the 300,000 users studied, the median number of lifetime Tweets is one. That means half of Twitter users tweet once every 74 days. Which is also about the churn rate for new Twitter users, many of whom &lt;A href="http://www.pcworld.com/article/164048/people_try_twitter_one_month_then_fly.html"&gt;quickly leave the service&lt;/A&gt;. Seemingly after tweeting only once.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;On the other hand, the top 10 percent of Twitter users are responsible for 90 percent of all tweets. If that isn't broadcasting, I don’t know what is. Twitter would be better served if maybe half of users were responsible for the same number of tweets.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BLOCKQUOTE&gt;
&lt;P&gt;I tend to agree. But none of this diminishes our interest in Twitter. Our interest is driven by understanding what key influencers think, not to use Twitter to monitor broad consumer perceptions.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;img src="http://thenewmarketing.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=10672" width="1" height="1"&gt;&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Thenewmarketing?a=Fp4lPsI8J9I:WfMRaayZfEs:yIl2AUoC8zA"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Thenewmarketing?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Thenewmarketing?a=Fp4lPsI8J9I:WfMRaayZfEs:2mJPEYqXBVI"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Thenewmarketing?d=2mJPEYqXBVI" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Thenewmarketing?a=Fp4lPsI8J9I:WfMRaayZfEs:7Q72WNTAKBA"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Thenewmarketing?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;</description><category domain="http://thenewmarketing.com/blogs/steve_ellis/archive/category/1085.aspx">Social networks</category><feedburner:origLink>http://thenewmarketing.com/blogs/steve_ellis/archive/2009/06/09/10672.aspx</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Metia and Logica take top B2B Campaign at ISP Awards 2009</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Thenewmarketing/~3/R2gkehCios0/10665.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 11:42:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">602bc1b6-9985-44a0-ad39-0a8a39d22f58:10665</guid><dc:creator>Sam Howard</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><description>&lt;SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"&gt;&lt;FONT color=#000000&gt;&lt;?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;
&lt;P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"&gt;&lt;SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"&gt;Last night – suited and booted – Metia London took our lovely client, &lt;A href="http://www.logica.com/"&gt;&lt;SPAN style="COLOR: windowtext"&gt;Logica&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/A&gt; to the &lt;A href="http://www.isp.org.uk/awards.php?pid=548"&gt;&lt;SPAN style="COLOR: windowtext"&gt;Institute of Sales Promotion awards&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/A&gt;, at the Park Lane Hilton. We were up for the &lt;A href="http://www.isp.org.uk/awards.php?pid=587"&gt;&lt;SPAN style="COLOR: windowtext"&gt;Best B2B Campaign award&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/A&gt;, with our nifty, &lt;I&gt;Logica Does it Better &lt;/I&gt;campaign. Across the board, there were over 300 entries and some 70 agencies competing.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"&gt;&lt;SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"&gt;&lt;SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"&gt;Anyway, to cut to the chase, we won! Tra la la.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"&gt;&lt;SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"&gt;&lt;SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"&gt;Which is great for the team here and our customers, Logica. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"&gt;&lt;SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"&gt;&lt;SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"&gt;Any campaign that generates a response rate of 60% from senior corporate decision makers (aka big budget holders), is one to shout about. So I’m delighted that we and the folk at Logica got the opportunity to quietly celebrate our joint success...&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"&gt;&lt;SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;A href="/photos/global/picture10667.aspx" target=_blank&gt;&lt;IMG style="PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; FLOAT: left" src="/photos/global/images/10667/thumb.aspx" border=0&gt;&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;A href="/photos/global/picture10667.aspx" target=_blank&gt;&lt;/A&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;
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&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Thenewmarketing?a=R2gkehCios0:ppC9zFtbxGU:yIl2AUoC8zA"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Thenewmarketing?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Thenewmarketing?a=R2gkehCios0:ppC9zFtbxGU:2mJPEYqXBVI"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Thenewmarketing?d=2mJPEYqXBVI" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Thenewmarketing?a=R2gkehCios0:ppC9zFtbxGU:7Q72WNTAKBA"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Thenewmarketing?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;</description><enclosure url="http://thenewmarketing.com/blogs/sam_howard/attachment/10665.ashx" length="648366" type="image/jpeg" /><category domain="http://thenewmarketing.com/blogs/sam_howard/archive/category/1088.aspx">Marketing</category><category domain="http://thenewmarketing.com/blogs/sam_howard/archive/category/1089.aspx">Measurement</category><category domain="http://thenewmarketing.com/blogs/sam_howard/archive/category/1093.aspx">Technology</category><feedburner:origLink>http://thenewmarketing.com/blogs/sam_howard/archive/2009/06/05/10665.aspx</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Metia and Logica shortlisted for Institute of Sales Promotion B2B award</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Thenewmarketing/~3/S5W5EKyOGr8/10660.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 09:49:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">602bc1b6-9985-44a0-ad39-0a8a39d22f58:10660</guid><dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><description>&lt;P&gt;Not wanting to be outdone by the &lt;A href="/blogs/sam_howard/archive/2009/05/22/10644.aspx"&gt;success &lt;/A&gt;of our colleagues in Metia New York, the London team and client Logica have been &lt;A href="http://www.isp.org.uk/awards.php?pid=548"&gt;nominated &lt;/A&gt;for an &lt;A href="http://www.isp.org.uk/index.php"&gt;Institute of Sales Promotion &lt;/A&gt;Award here in the UK. The work was our &lt;EM&gt;Logica Does it Better&lt;/EM&gt; campaign.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;We are particularly pleased because the ISP Awards are all about driving sales success, which in the current climate is pretty important to every client. The campaign was a smart mix of traditional DM and digital that inspired a 60 per cent response no less,&amp;nbsp;from a small but very high level segment of corporate decision makers.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Fingers crossed for the outcome.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;img src="http://thenewmarketing.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=10660" width="1" height="1"&gt;&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Thenewmarketing?a=S5W5EKyOGr8:J7QTFSKj37g:yIl2AUoC8zA"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Thenewmarketing?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Thenewmarketing?a=S5W5EKyOGr8:J7QTFSKj37g:2mJPEYqXBVI"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Thenewmarketing?d=2mJPEYqXBVI" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Thenewmarketing?a=S5W5EKyOGr8:J7QTFSKj37g:7Q72WNTAKBA"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Thenewmarketing?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;</description><category domain="http://thenewmarketing.com/blogs/steve_ellis/archive/category/1054.aspx">Marketing</category><feedburner:origLink>http://thenewmarketing.com/blogs/steve_ellis/archive/2009/05/29/10660.aspx</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>To Bing or not to Bing? Will that be the question?</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Thenewmarketing/~3/Uf6FB8YrxQg/10655.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 21:25:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">602bc1b6-9985-44a0-ad39-0a8a39d22f58:10655</guid><dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><description>&lt;P&gt;&lt;A HREF="/photos/global/picture10657.aspx" target=_blank&gt;&lt;IMG style="PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; FLOAT: left" src="/photos/global/images/10657/thumb.aspx" border=0&gt;&lt;/A&gt;Twitter and blogs&amp;nbsp;are all &lt;A href="http://www.techmeme.com/090524/p22#a090524p22"&gt;a buzz &lt;/A&gt;about &lt;A href="http://www.bing.com/ComingSoon"&gt;Bing&lt;/A&gt;, Microsoft's new search engine (aka Kumo for project/product name genealogists).&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;I'm no search engine expert, and haven't got any inside track until, like the rest of the public, we can get our hands on the Bing search engine. So I'll defer to more knowledgeable sources to discuss the merits, or otherwise,&amp;nbsp;of the technology.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;As a marketer it is interesting to consider the approach exposed to date and what is&amp;nbsp;likely to roll out over the next few weeks and months. SearchEngineLand has some inside &lt;A href="http://searchengineland.com/will-advertising-get-users-to-try-bing-19744"&gt;information &lt;/A&gt;on Bing's upcoming $80m advertising campaign, others like Todd Bishop &lt;A href="http://www.techflash.com/microsoft/Yep_its_official_Microsoft_rolling_out_new_Bing_search_engine_46368882.html"&gt;discuss &lt;/A&gt;the strategy.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Personally, and purely from looking at the video and&amp;nbsp;available screen shots of the&amp;nbsp;site:&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;I like:&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;UL&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;The decision to adopt a&amp;nbsp;distinct, non-Windows/MSN/Live family name. 
&lt;LI&gt;Ditto the distinctly non-Windows/MSN/Live family logo. The &lt;EM&gt;actual&lt;/EM&gt; name chosen and the &lt;EM&gt;actual&lt;/EM&gt; logo aren't really the issue for me. They just need to be&amp;nbsp;'fit for purpose'. The logo doesn't look anything particularly special (or particularly bad). Why these two items just need to be 'fit for purpose' I'll come to. 
&lt;LI&gt;Ditto the positioning of&amp;nbsp;the site to help decision making. Apparently, it's a &lt;EM&gt;decision&lt;/EM&gt; engine, not &lt;EM&gt;search&lt;/EM&gt; engine. Which pragmatically sidesteps the confrontational 'better mousetrap' issue with the dominant force in search. 
&lt;LI&gt;Glimpses of the UI look more than usually clean, open and&amp;nbsp;typographically led&amp;nbsp;for Microsoft.&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/UL&gt;
&lt;P&gt;I don't like:&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;UL&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;The US centric &lt;A href="http://www.decisionengine.com/Default.html"&gt;video&lt;/A&gt;. Come on.. searching downtown Bellevue, domestic US references? Think global. There's a whole world of us out here, you know... (but that is small change in the greater scheme of a campaign on this scale).&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/UL&gt;
&lt;P&gt;For me, the entirely parochial and personal&amp;nbsp;acid test for whether or not a technology or a brand&amp;nbsp;has gone mainstream, is whether I can chat about it to other parents at the school pick up, without needing to explain myself about why I, and the other dweebs in techland, are getting excited about dweeb.com or whatever. So, by that measure, Twitter only just&amp;nbsp;made it about a month back. Live Search always drew a blank look.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;For Bing to breakthrough in these terms will take a lot more than $80 million of advertising. &lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;It needs to have the basics in situ, first. The basics are&amp;nbsp;a name and a logo that is for fit for purpose (done).&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Then secondly,&amp;nbsp;it'll need a billion dollars (or ten) of positive Word of Mouth - 99.9&amp;nbsp;per&amp;nbsp;cent&amp;nbsp;of which will be driven by the experience, not the&amp;nbsp;marketing. &lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;While I'm certain viral and social media figure on the Bing campaign plan, with strategies&amp;nbsp;to accelerate and amplify this effect, what I'm really driving at is, the service needs to deliver to consumers. That will determine Bing's success. Not the opinions of a million brand / advertising experts over the next week or two as Microsoft rolls out the launch campaign. &lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;If the service delivers,&amp;nbsp;it&amp;nbsp;will be&amp;nbsp;Word of Mouth that can determine whether or not Bing will make a serious dent in those market share figures for search.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Tags: &lt;A href="http://technorati.com/tag/bing" rel=tag&gt;Bing&lt;/A&gt;, &lt;A href="http://technorati.com/tag/Microsoft" rel=tag&gt;Microsoft&lt;/A&gt;, &lt;A href="http://technorati.com/tag/search+engine" rel=tag&gt;search engine&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Disclosure: Microsoft is a client but as you can tell from my tone, not this division. No inside track here.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;img src="http://thenewmarketing.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=10655" width="1" height="1"&gt;&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Thenewmarketing?a=Uf6FB8YrxQg:kfWQ2OY7dW0:yIl2AUoC8zA"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Thenewmarketing?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Thenewmarketing?a=Uf6FB8YrxQg:kfWQ2OY7dW0:2mJPEYqXBVI"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Thenewmarketing?d=2mJPEYqXBVI" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Thenewmarketing?a=Uf6FB8YrxQg:kfWQ2OY7dW0:7Q72WNTAKBA"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Thenewmarketing?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;</description><category domain="http://thenewmarketing.com/blogs/steve_ellis/archive/category/1054.aspx">Marketing</category><category domain="http://thenewmarketing.com/blogs/steve_ellis/archive/category/1059.aspx">Technology</category><feedburner:origLink>http://thenewmarketing.com/blogs/steve_ellis/archive/2009/05/28/10655.aspx</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>B2B marketing spend in 2009</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Thenewmarketing/~3/1Dv7S81ZvVY/10653.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 14:24:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">602bc1b6-9985-44a0-ad39-0a8a39d22f58:10653</guid><dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><description>&lt;P&gt;Listen. Hear that distant rumble of&amp;nbsp;thunder? That's the sound of traditional ad agencies stampeding into the world of digital just&amp;nbsp;as fast as their Hush Puppies will carry them.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;The data points below, just&amp;nbsp;&lt;A href="http://www.emarketer.com/Article.aspx?R=1007108"&gt;released &lt;/A&gt;by eMarketer and Forrester are startling, not for pointing out the strength of the resilient areas of B2B marketing (pretty much what you'd expect if, like us,&amp;nbsp;you work in B2B) but for showing the depth of the collapse in traditional forms of advertising. By my reckoning five of the bottom eight categories are core service offerings&amp;nbsp;of traditional ad agencies. &lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;No wonder all those ad agency types are furiously reinventing themselves. &lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;A href="/photos/global/picture10652.aspx" target=_blank&gt;&lt;IMG style="PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; FLOAT: left" src="/photos/global/images/10652/thumb.aspx" border=0&gt;&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;img src="http://thenewmarketing.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=10653" width="1" height="1"&gt;&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Thenewmarketing?a=1Dv7S81ZvVY:MZ7f2rQ8Z9U:yIl2AUoC8zA"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Thenewmarketing?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Thenewmarketing?a=1Dv7S81ZvVY:MZ7f2rQ8Z9U:2mJPEYqXBVI"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Thenewmarketing?d=2mJPEYqXBVI" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Thenewmarketing?a=1Dv7S81ZvVY:MZ7f2rQ8Z9U:7Q72WNTAKBA"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Thenewmarketing?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;</description><category domain="http://thenewmarketing.com/blogs/steve_ellis/archive/category/1054.aspx">Marketing</category><feedburner:origLink>http://thenewmarketing.com/blogs/steve_ellis/archive/2009/05/28/10653.aspx</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Fails and sales</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Thenewmarketing/~3/FFyoKWlHUXk/10645.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 09:11:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">602bc1b6-9985-44a0-ad39-0a8a39d22f58:10645</guid><dc:creator>Peter Springett</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><description>&lt;P&gt;I really liked this post by &lt;A href="http://blogs.zdnet.com/feeds/?p=1204&amp;amp;page=9"&gt;Jennifer Leggio&lt;/A&gt;&amp;nbsp;describing her least favourite social media marketing campaigns so far this year. &lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;The old rules rule so to speak. Don't make lame gags about sex and death (House, Quiznos), don't insult your audience (Pizza Hut) and most of all, don't lead with the tool and then fail to reach your community (Skittles). &lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Jennifer's article also shows the wisdom of hindsight. The BurgerKing/Facebook campaign had little take up from its target audience. Although to be fair it generated plenty of electronic column inches. &lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;There's also some wise reflection on the whole Motrin episode where the backlash itself is presented as the fail. The consensus appears to be that in spite of the sound and fury, the impact on sales was minimal. &lt;/P&gt;&lt;img src="http://thenewmarketing.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=10645" width="1" height="1"&gt;&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Thenewmarketing?a=FFyoKWlHUXk:SYfeui_m3Cc:yIl2AUoC8zA"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Thenewmarketing?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Thenewmarketing?a=FFyoKWlHUXk:SYfeui_m3Cc:2mJPEYqXBVI"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Thenewmarketing?d=2mJPEYqXBVI" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Thenewmarketing?a=FFyoKWlHUXk:SYfeui_m3Cc:7Q72WNTAKBA"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Thenewmarketing?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;</description><category domain="http://thenewmarketing.com/blogs/peter_springett/archive/category/1045.aspx">Marketing</category><category domain="http://thenewmarketing.com/blogs/peter_springett/archive/category/1048.aspx">PR</category><category domain="http://thenewmarketing.com/blogs/peter_springett/archive/category/1051.aspx">Trust &amp;amp; Ethics</category><category domain="http://thenewmarketing.com/blogs/peter_springett/archive/category/1095.aspx">Twitter</category><feedburner:origLink>http://thenewmarketing.com/blogs/peter_springett/archive/2009/05/27/10645.aspx</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Metia and GlobeOp win at New York’s Big Apple Awards</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Thenewmarketing/~3/MTtRGlG5igg/10644.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2009 13:23:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">602bc1b6-9985-44a0-ad39-0a8a39d22f58:10644</guid><dc:creator>Sam Howard</dc:creator><slash:comments>1</slash:comments><description>&lt;H4&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;How much are we loving our NYC colleagues right now? &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/H4&gt;
&lt;P class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;Last night, Metia’s New York office scooped the award for most effective B2B communications campaign in the Tri-State&amp;nbsp;Region at the &lt;A href="http://www.prsany.org/index.php?s=awards"&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;2009 PRSA Big Apple Awards&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/A&gt; with our client &lt;A href="http://www.globeop.com/favicon.ico"&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;GlobeOp&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/A&gt; .These awards run by &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;the New York Chapter of the largest professional organization for public relations practitioners in the US, have been running for some 22 years and this year they received a record number of entries, so we are just chuffed to come out on top.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;Our award winning campaign had all the components of what makes us rock: our passion to get deep into the subject matter, knowing what an industry’s hot topics are and how to play them to our client’s advantage, a creative approach to pitching complex ideas to the media, an energized team with the tenacity to secure top interviews, and of course, a fantastic client.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;The end result was a great set of performance metrics: 456 pieces of coverage, 165% above target, from 83 media briefings, 184% above target, including coverage in the NYT, WSJ, IHT, FT, Bloomberg, Thomson Reuters, Dow Jones, et al.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;What better start for a well-earned Memorial Day weekend? &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;img src="http://thenewmarketing.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=10644" width="1" height="1"&gt;&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Thenewmarketing?a=MTtRGlG5igg:-1H2IMADacA:yIl2AUoC8zA"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Thenewmarketing?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Thenewmarketing?a=MTtRGlG5igg:-1H2IMADacA:2mJPEYqXBVI"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Thenewmarketing?d=2mJPEYqXBVI" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Thenewmarketing?a=MTtRGlG5igg:-1H2IMADacA:7Q72WNTAKBA"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Thenewmarketing?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://thenewmarketing.com/blogs/sam_howard/archive/2009/05/22/10644.aspx</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Data visualization gives a window into MPs new world of transparency</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Thenewmarketing/~3/nYjlAGOVHek/10642.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2009 17:12:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">602bc1b6-9985-44a0-ad39-0a8a39d22f58:10642</guid><dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><description>&lt;P&gt;&lt;A href="/photos/global/picture10643.aspx" target=_blank&gt;&lt;IMG style="PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; FLOAT: left" src="/photos/global/images/10643/thumb.aspx" border=0&gt;&lt;/A&gt;Always had a soft spot for compelling data visualization. The Guardian's Charles Arthur has a&amp;nbsp;&lt;A href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2009/may/20/mps-expenses-visualised-best"&gt;post &lt;/A&gt;on how people are using &lt;A href="http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=phNtm3LmDZEObQ2itmSqHIA"&gt;source data&lt;/A&gt; from the Guardian's &lt;A href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/data-store"&gt;Datastore&lt;/A&gt;&amp;nbsp;to re-package and re-present data on the MP's expenses furore here in the UK.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;The example above, link &lt;A href="http://msn.shoothill.com/"&gt;here&lt;/A&gt;,&amp;nbsp;using Microsoft's Silverlight and Virtual Earth,&amp;nbsp;was featured on MSN today and created by Shoothill.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;None of these visualizations, totally nails it for me. While 'flipping' and moat cleaning aren't to be sponsored by the taxpayer, part of me actually wants to see MPs using their office expenses to the maximum in order to serve their local constituents effectively. Which is a difficult thing to measure, doubtless the datapoints are out there, just&amp;nbsp;waiting to be liberated either by leakers or reformers. Which just goes to prove the first law of visualization, there's always someone who wants the data sliced another way.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Either way, these examples serve to highlight what a smart initiative the Guardian's Datastore is.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Tags: &lt;A href="http://technorati.com/tag/the+Guardian" rel=tag&gt;the Guardian&lt;/A&gt;, &lt;A href="http://technorati.com/tag/DataStore" rel=tag&gt;DataStore&lt;/A&gt;, &lt;A href="http://technorati.com/tag/Crooks+and+swindlers" rel=tag&gt;Crooks &amp;amp; Swindlers&lt;/A&gt;, &lt;A href="http://technorati.com/tag/MPs+expenses" rel=tag&gt;MPs expenses&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;img src="http://thenewmarketing.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=10642" width="1" height="1"&gt;&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Thenewmarketing?a=nYjlAGOVHek:Lu8BOj_Mfrs:yIl2AUoC8zA"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Thenewmarketing?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Thenewmarketing?a=nYjlAGOVHek:Lu8BOj_Mfrs:2mJPEYqXBVI"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Thenewmarketing?d=2mJPEYqXBVI" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Thenewmarketing?a=nYjlAGOVHek:Lu8BOj_Mfrs:7Q72WNTAKBA"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Thenewmarketing?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;</description><category domain="http://thenewmarketing.com/blogs/steve_ellis/archive/category/1055.aspx">Measurement</category><category domain="http://thenewmarketing.com/blogs/steve_ellis/archive/category/1059.aspx">Technology</category><feedburner:origLink>http://thenewmarketing.com/blogs/steve_ellis/archive/2009/05/20/10642.aspx</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Metia and GlobeOp shortlisted for best B2B campaign</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Thenewmarketing/~3/svx1ff8YlwQ/10641.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2009 09:52:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">602bc1b6-9985-44a0-ad39-0a8a39d22f58:10641</guid><dc:creator>Sam Howard</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><description>&lt;P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"&gt;&lt;SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'"&gt;This year&amp;nbsp;I told my CEO, it ain’t about the cash revenues - we'll fill our boots with &lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"&gt;psychic income or glory by any other name.&amp;nbsp;Not sure he was really smitten with this concept, but I ran with it. &lt;?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"&gt;&lt;SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"&gt;&lt;SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'"&gt;You have two options when the bear in the market growls. &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'"&gt;Run and hide - or play that tin whistle and see if you can’t get that big ol’ bear to dance. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"&gt;&lt;SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"&gt;&lt;SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'"&gt;I’m lucky. I work with some brilliant people, both in-house and on the client side&amp;nbsp;and when the going gets tough, we get creative. &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'"&gt;We’ve focused on designing campaigns that make the budgets work harder, while our clients have given us the ammunition to aim that bit higher.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'"&gt;So, nice to see that right on the back of our US-based client, &lt;A href="http://www.correlix.com/favicon.ico"&gt;&lt;SPAN style="COLOR: windowtext"&gt;Correlix&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/A&gt;, winning the &lt;A href="http://www.herringevents.com/northamerica09/redherring100.html"&gt;&lt;SPAN style="COLOR: windowtext"&gt;Red Herring North American 100&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/A&gt; award for top tech start up companies, the&amp;nbsp;&lt;A href="http://www.prsany.org/index.php?s=awards"&gt;&lt;SPAN style="COLOR: windowtext"&gt;2009 PRSA Big Apple Awards&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/A&gt; have shortlisted the Metia PR team and our client, &lt;A href="http://www.globeop.com/favicon.ico"&gt;&lt;SPAN style="COLOR: windowtext"&gt;GlobeOp&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/A&gt;, for most effective b2b campaign in the tri-state area. This is for our sterling efforts to promote GlobeOp’s trailblazing market position as the guiding light for hedge funds.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'"&gt;Being recognised for our creativity and ability to impact the client’s bottom line is a huge thrill. And of course it’s a great reason to dust off the little black frock – even if it is last season’s. Keeping it crossed NYC.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;img src="http://thenewmarketing.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=10641" width="1" height="1"&gt;&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Thenewmarketing?a=svx1ff8YlwQ:FP1DUZsE3f0:yIl2AUoC8zA"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Thenewmarketing?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Thenewmarketing?a=svx1ff8YlwQ:FP1DUZsE3f0:2mJPEYqXBVI"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Thenewmarketing?d=2mJPEYqXBVI" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Thenewmarketing?a=svx1ff8YlwQ:FP1DUZsE3f0:7Q72WNTAKBA"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Thenewmarketing?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://thenewmarketing.com/blogs/sam_howard/archive/2009/05/20/10641.aspx</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Silverlight based Business Value Calculator</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Thenewmarketing/~3/fjAH87mR9Jo/10639.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2009 14:28:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">602bc1b6-9985-44a0-ad39-0a8a39d22f58:10639</guid><dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><description>&lt;P&gt;&lt;A href="/photos/global/picture10640.aspx" target=_blank&gt;&lt;IMG style="PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; FLOAT: left" src="/photos/global/images/10640/thumb.aspx" border=0&gt;&lt;/A&gt;This slick &lt;A href="http://www.microsoft.com/sqlserver/2008/en/us/value-calc.aspx"&gt;Silverlight based&amp;nbsp;Business Value Calculator &lt;/A&gt;has just gone live over on the &lt;A href="http://www.microsoft.com/sqlserver/2008/en/us/default.aspx"&gt;Microsoft SQL Server 2008&lt;/A&gt; site. It has earned a nice &lt;A href="http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/ContinuumNews/New-Silverlight-based-SQL-Server-Value-Calculator/"&gt;reference &lt;/A&gt;from Channel9, and&amp;nbsp;there are some positive comments accumulating on Twitter &lt;A href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=SQL+Server+Value"&gt;too&lt;/A&gt;. &lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Obviously, while&amp;nbsp;a&amp;nbsp;Business Value&amp;nbsp;Calculator is very much&amp;nbsp;in keeping with recessionary times, our development teams have also built other tools, like licence calculators and deployment roadmaps, to assist customers through purchasing decisions with an improved&amp;nbsp;experience to boot.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Far from being flashy add ons, these types of RIA site enhancements are increasingly being used as incredibly hardworking ways to improve lead generation&amp;nbsp;rates from online campaigns.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Tags: &lt;A href="http://technorati.com/tag/Silverlight" rel=tag&gt;Silverlight&lt;/A&gt;, &lt;A href="http://technorati.com/tag/sql+server+2008" rel=tag&gt;SQL Server 2008&lt;/A&gt;, &lt;A href="http://technorati.com/tag/Microsoft" rel=tag&gt;Microsoft&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;img src="http://thenewmarketing.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=10639" width="1" height="1"&gt;&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;</description><category domain="http://thenewmarketing.com/blogs/steve_ellis/archive/category/1059.aspx">Technology</category><feedburner:origLink>http://thenewmarketing.com/blogs/steve_ellis/archive/2009/05/19/10639.aspx</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Metia = Good friends, Good times, Good Beer</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Thenewmarketing/~3/IR5qwB6oeAo/10638.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2009 13:13:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">602bc1b6-9985-44a0-ad39-0a8a39d22f58:10638</guid><dc:creator>Andrew Martin</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><description>Knew there was a reason I worked here. Steve can I move to our beer making division?&lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt;
Found the image with &lt;a href="http://beta.spezify.com/"&gt;Spezify&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
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&lt;img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51gmho%2BhVML._SS500_.jpg" id="prodImage"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;</description><category domain="http://thenewmarketing.com/blogs/andrew_martin/archive/category/1076.aspx">Random</category><feedburner:origLink>http://thenewmarketing.com/blogs/andrew_martin/archive/2009/05/19/10638.aspx</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Volvo PR guy torques the talk</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Thenewmarketing/~3/YyV8QNCJw6E/10637.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2009 12:43:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">602bc1b6-9985-44a0-ad39-0a8a39d22f58:10637</guid><dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator><slash:comments>1</slash:comments><description>&lt;P&gt;Compared to a couple of years back, I have less and less&amp;nbsp;enthusiasm for wasting time contributing to the noise around which type of agency&amp;nbsp;is best placed to serve and support the growing social media arena.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;The latest example is this &lt;A href="http://www.prweek.com/uk/news/article/903849/Media-agencies-muscle/?DCMP=EMC-DailyNews"&gt;PR Week story &lt;/A&gt;about Volvo giving it's online PR to a media agency. See also the fuss about nothing, sorry&amp;nbsp;the &lt;EM&gt;conversation&lt;/EM&gt;, continued&amp;nbsp;&lt;A href="http://www.prweek.com/uk/news/article/903849/Media-agencies-muscle/?DCMP=EMC-DailyNews"&gt;here&lt;/A&gt;.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;However, this spat did unearth the blog of Duncan Forrester head of PR for Volvo: &lt;A href="http://torquetalking.blogspot.com/"&gt;Torque Talking&lt;/A&gt;. &lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;It seems to me that blogs from&amp;nbsp;in-house PR or marketing professionals are still&amp;nbsp;pretty rare items (in the UK at least). Which is a shame because they could add some sensible perspective to these incestuous debates. Such as this soundbite&amp;nbsp;in a comment by Duncan:&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"&gt;
&lt;P&gt;"..irrespective of what an agency calls themselves or, to the outside world, appears to specialise in,&amp;nbsp;it's all about finding somebody who understands&amp;nbsp;your business, understands your customers, understands what you are asking them to do and can prove from the outset they can deliver on the objectives. And then over-achieves.&amp;nbsp; Can't ask for any more than that!!"&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BLOCKQUOTE&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Wise words Duncan. I know who I'll be following.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Tags: &lt;A href="http://technorati.com/tag/Volvo" rel=tag&gt;Volvo&lt;/A&gt;, &lt;A href="http://technorati.com/tag/duncan+forrester" rel=tag&gt;Duncan Forrester&lt;/A&gt;, &lt;A href="http://technorati.com/tag/PR+Week" rel=tag&gt;PR Week&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;btw - I hope that blog is all your own work Duncan, or I'll look like a bit of a ***&lt;/P&gt;&lt;img src="http://thenewmarketing.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=10637" width="1" height="1"&gt;&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;</description><category domain="http://thenewmarketing.com/blogs/steve_ellis/archive/category/1052.aspx">Blogging</category><category domain="http://thenewmarketing.com/blogs/steve_ellis/archive/category/1057.aspx">PR</category><feedburner:origLink>http://thenewmarketing.com/blogs/steve_ellis/archive/2009/05/12/10637.aspx</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Journalism: the next generation</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Thenewmarketing/~3/ETrFAgmqKwM/10636.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2009 07:33:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">602bc1b6-9985-44a0-ad39-0a8a39d22f58:10636</guid><dc:creator>Peter Springett</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><description>Back posting after a month or so. What happened? Six weeks out of the loop these days and it might as well be 60 years or more in terms of online content. 

But sometimes there's value in looking at events over longer intervals of time. It's clear, for example, that the debate about print journalism has moved from extinction to evolution. 

I liked these articles that illustrate how journalism schools plan to train the next generation of hacks. 

School of Journalism to require iPod touch, iPhone for students:
http://tinyurl.com/cgqukn

A new generation of entrepreneurial journalists is emerging:
http://tinyurl.com/cqdl5z

Finally, if you're a student How to Afford a Kindle DX: Wait Three Years, Stay Away From Beer:
http://tinyurl.com/p9xdzv

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&lt;/div&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://thenewmarketing.com/blogs/peter_springett/archive/2009/05/08/10636.aspx</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>The World's Best...</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Thenewmarketing/~3/ywuts3edWmU/10634.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 05:54:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">602bc1b6-9985-44a0-ad39-0a8a39d22f58:10634</guid><dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator><slash:comments>1</slash:comments><description>&lt;P&gt;&lt;A href="/photos/global/picture10635.aspx" target=_blank&gt;&lt;IMG style="PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; FLOAT: left" src="/photos/global/images/10635/thumb.aspx" border=0&gt;&lt;/A&gt;Whenever anyone asks me for examples of marketing campaigns I admire, my mind goes blank. Next time I'm asked, I'll remember to give credit to &lt;A href="http://www.islandreefjob.com/"&gt;The Best Job in the World&lt;/A&gt;.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Whoever at Queensland Tourism, or their agency, came up with the basic idea and whoever signed it off, deserves all the prizes that marketing land can throw at them.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Queensland Tourism reckon to have got about A$100m of publicity from the A$1.7m campaign. Having watched the extended coverage featured on BBC Ten O'Clock news last night,&amp;nbsp;I wouldn't be surprised if the figure was&amp;nbsp;higher. &lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Now, of course, they just need to see how many&amp;nbsp;people actually book holidays.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;img src="http://thenewmarketing.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=10634" width="1" height="1"&gt;&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;</description><category domain="http://thenewmarketing.com/blogs/steve_ellis/archive/category/1054.aspx">Marketing</category><category domain="http://thenewmarketing.com/blogs/steve_ellis/archive/category/1057.aspx">PR</category><feedburner:origLink>http://thenewmarketing.com/blogs/steve_ellis/archive/2009/05/07/10634.aspx</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Maximising Marketing Efficiency - its science you know</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Thenewmarketing/~3/E7_rTempnL0/10554.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2009 13:30:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">602bc1b6-9985-44a0-ad39-0a8a39d22f58:10554</guid><dc:creator>Andrew Martin</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><description>Recently, in a dead laptop battery on a plane moment, I was thinking to myself how has the drive towards technology and community affected marketing? Is there a formula or equation that I could devise to show this?&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I started from the commonly held view that, historically, marketing was considered a black box into which money was poured and out came something 'creative'.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Moving on to where we are now, I began with the elements which are normally part of a marketing program:&lt;br&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;People - you've got to have great people&lt;br&gt;Money - you don't get anything good&amp;nbsp;for free&lt;br&gt;Tech - everything has some tech element &lt;br&gt;Customers - customers are at the heart of everything, right?&lt;/blockquote&gt;The next part of the process was to think about how these things interact with each other and this is what I came up with:&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;img style="padding-right: 5px; float: left;" src="/photos/global/images/10555/500x122.aspx" border="0"&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;How I got there was, budget and talent are constants between old and new school marketing and have a combined effect. Technology allows you to be more efficient and effective in your marketing, enabling you to get more done and&amp;nbsp;in essence multiplying your output. Finally, your customers can have an exponential impact on the effectiveness your marketing, so the preceding bit has to be to the power of customers.&lt;br&gt;&lt;img src="http://thenewmarketing.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=10554" width="1" height="1"&gt;&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;</description><category domain="http://thenewmarketing.com/blogs/andrew_martin/archive/category/1080.aspx">Marketing</category><category domain="http://thenewmarketing.com/blogs/andrew_martin/archive/category/1075.aspx">Technology</category><feedburner:origLink>http://thenewmarketing.com/blogs/andrew_martin/archive/2009/04/08/10554.aspx</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Flow chart for dealing with blog posts</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Thenewmarketing/~3/PYJU4MT7Wl4/10633.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2009 09:05:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">602bc1b6-9985-44a0-ad39-0a8a39d22f58:10633</guid><dc:creator>Andrew Martin</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><description>Interesting image from &lt;a href="http://scampblog.blogspot.com/2009/03/how-us-airforce-responds-to-blogs.html"&gt;Scamp &lt;/a&gt;about how the US Air Force responds to blogs&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_x0oGFZRVbQ0/Scpgp3b5XCI/AAAAAAAABdg/lzPteyCwP44/s400/3154057414_f797f3fc16_o.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5317168582436150306" border="0"&gt;

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