Tag Archives: Web 2.0

What does real engagement mean? A change of mindset.

Engage­ment is a term that has been used so much in the last cou­ple years by mar­keters it’s start­ing to loose it’s mean­ing. It’s become a short­hand for do some­thing “social.” But engage­ment at it’s best is an emo­tional involve­ment or com­mit­ment between two par­ties. Unfor­tu­nately, com­mit­ment is some­thing many mar­keters only expect of their

Halfway-serious webvertising predictions for 2010

Most pre­dic­tions are either easy, safe, or just wrong. So why not add a few more to the list? I dare you to go on the record on which ones of these are wrong. Mobile Web will become even big­ger. The kids will con­tinue to text at an alarm­ing rate — it’s pri­vate you know. Social media

Google Wave is not a replacement for email. Or a case for Gmail.

Finally got my Wave invite and I have a first impres­sion. Google has made the case that Wave is what email would have been been had it been built with today’s tech­nol­ogy. But Google Wave strikes me more as a col­lab­o­ra­tion tool rather than a replace­ment for email. Frankly, I know a lot of peo­ple

Jimmy’s Week on the InterWebs — August 21, 2009

Image via Crunch­Base This is the first install­ment of Jimmy’s Week on the Inter­Webs. A very low-level look at what’s cur­rent and what I think would be inter­est­ing for agency folks that is hap­pen­ing on the Web. This may end up being a weekly blog arti­cle or it might not. Lots inter­est­ing things going on with