Tag Archives: web 2.0

How to promote your healthcare product

Thought I’d share the benefit of my experience in the NHS/healthcare e-commerce & web 2.0 with the following quick & dirty guide to promoting your healthcare product using web 2.0 tools:
Say your product currently already has a product site which has tons of great information about the product. Without too much time/effort the information could be lifted [...]

How the very best web 2.0 people think

While web 2.0 senior positions often appear slanted towards technical expertise, I believe there’s a strong argument for clients to consider people who’s strengths are grounded in a deep understanding of how web 2.0, online communities and social networking works, as this is what brings in the business. IT skills come second to that.
IT people [...]

How to think out of the 2.0 box

Hmm, looks interesting..thanks David.
A basic two-by-two matrix can be the key to quantifying the risks and opportunities that are bundled together under the banner of web 2.0, says David Bowen.
At a conference for corporate web managers a few months back delegate after delegate muttered that they were thoroughly fed up with web 2.0. It may [...]

It’s a long way to the bottom

Liked the piece in Social Media Today by Marc Meyer which asks whether we try to do too much with social media (‘Are we slaves to the rhythm of social media?‘):
“What do you think? What is acceptable? Frankly I try to limit my time into blocks built around the work day and even at home. [...]

Hypermimesis, Hyperpolitics, and web 2.0

In his well-received talk at this year’s Personal Democracy Forum (organized by Andrew Rasiej and Micah Sifry), “digital ethnologist” Mark Pesce makes the point that “we have a drive to connect and socialize: this drive has now been accelerated and amplified as comprehensively as the steam engine amplified human strength two hundred and fifty years ago. Just as the steam engine initiated the transformation of the natural landscape into man-made artifice, the ‘hyperconnectivity’ engendered by these new toys is transforming the human landscape of social relations.This time around, fifty thousand years of cultural development will collapse into about twenty..