Recently I had a big announcement to share with family, friends and colleagues.

My son Truman Fraser Devaney was born June 1^st.

Planning how to announce this news to everyone became a real challenge of thinking who likes to use what form of communication. My partner and I had to go down the list of names and figure out if the person would get a phone call to their mobile or landline, a text message, a blog post, an email, Skype, iChat, G-Chat, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and in some cases the mail and word of mouth. Read More »

Digital, and especially social media, has disrupted the media industry. The shift from broadcasting to peer-casting; the amount of user generated content; the new paths in which brand related information reaches consumers; the required speed of response and the multiple new brand touchpoints are only some of the challenge brands and agencies are facing today. Read More »

Jesus Daily: followers love it

Justin Bieber might be king of Twitter but when it comes to engaged Facebook fans, he is pipped to the post by none other than Jesus.

According to the All Facebook blog, the world’s most engaged Facebook page – a measure based on ‘likes’, ‘shares’ and comments – is a page called Jesus Daily.

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Interesting new study from the University of Cambridge that has found a new way of predicting which people may become friends your friends on social networks – based on the type of places they visit.

To date, most social networking sites like Facebook and LinkedIn have relied upon the ‘friend-of-a-friend’ approach to try and determine which people may have connections with one another – but Cambridge looked at the places people visit. Read More »