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, […]

My Own Reflection on the Digital Enterprise 1st November 2013 at 9.38 am: APMG 8119

Some one said to me the other day: “we need to find more oil.” Presumably to improve the economic wealth of the nation; jobs, overseas export revenue etc. An alternative more sustainable view is to create more digital enterprises. Here are some examples: Zero Live Orion Health and the new GeoOp The above companies (and […]

My Own Reflection on the Digital Enterprise 1st November 2013 at 9.26 am: APMG 8119

As I reflect on what my APMG 8119 Digital Enterprise Master of Business students are saying to me: RIGHT NOW!!! “The important thing to recognise with the Digital Enterprise is that it is always changing and transforming. So, learning must follow. Think about technology 5 years ago. What were you using and obsessed with? Think […]