Can Social Media Predict the Future? A Special Issue by Internet Research

“Predicting exactly how waves will break upon the shore is nearly impossible. But forecasting waves that travel along social media streams is more than doable-it’s already happening, according to acollection of studies recently published in Internet Research. Consider that virtually every move we make on Twitter, Facebook, and other social media channels is being recorded in some form […]

This is interesting: "Lorde signs publishing deal worth up to $US4m" – Implications for Digital Publishing. Smart move.

This is interesting: “Lorde signs publishing deal worth up to $US4m” – Implications for Digital Publishing. Smart move Lorde. By the National Business Review I quote: “Lorde (real name Ella Yelich-O’Connor) was courted by all of the established global publishing giants, the Journal reports. But in the end she signed with the little-known Songs Music Publishing […]

Best Conference Paper Award: 2013 MAG Scholar Global Business, Marketing and Tourism Conference Dubai, United Arab Emirates, November 10 – 14, 2013. Presented to Robert Davis and Ahsan Ali Chaudhri for the paper entitled: Integration of Simultaneous Media Channel for Modelling Interactivity in Ubiquitous Campaigns.

Best Conference Paper Award: 2013 MAG Scholar Global Business, Marketing and Tourism Conference (http://www.magscholar.com/joomla/), Le Meridien, Airport Road, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, November 10 – 14, 2013. Presented to Robert Davis and Ahsan Ali Chaudhri  for the paper entitled: Integration of Simultaneous Media Channel for Modelling Interactivity in Ubiquitous Campaigns.

The New Google Business Model? Modular Integrated Software as a Service: The case is the close relationship between Xero and GeoOp.

The New Google Business Model? Modular Integrated Software as a Service. I am just going to put another one out there about a new business model which is emerging in the digital space. Lets call it: “The New Google Business Model? Modular Integrated Software as a Service.” The case is the close relationship between Xero […]

Use of ('Sweetie') Avatar by Dutch Activists (Terre des Hommes) to Track Alleged Child Abusers

Use of ‘Sweetie’ Avatar by Dutch activists to track alleged child abusers: Sweetie — a digital ‘girl’ by Terre des Hommes. This is a very cool and effective application of real virtuality (Castells) in digital society to achieve very significant progress is the fight against child abusers. Read more here from the NY daily News. “A system […]

Appointment to Editorial Board of Journal of Marketing Communications

I was pleased to be appointed to the Editorial Board of Journal of Marketing Communications (JMC). JMC is a very good B journal, ranked in the ABDC 2013 Journal Rankings. JMC is very pertinent to marketing theory and practice because it is specifically related to the current communications context; where multiple channels of communication (offline, online, […]