Archive for December, 2006

Viral Marketing 101: The Internet and Artificial Selection

December 22, 2006

If you are not familiar with the concept of memes please see previous post Viral Marketing 101: Memes
The Internet has offered us an amazing chance to watch memes in action, since all connections leave a trace. Particularly with the hive mind of the blogosphere, trackbacks, ping backs, etc, we start to see, not only traces [...]

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Viral Marketing 101: Memes

December 21, 2006

To start I wanted to say to everyone reading this blog, congratulations on being selected as Time’s Person of the Year, don’t know about you, but I am considering putting it on my resumé…
2006 has definitely been the year of viral marketing, but there is so much muddy thinking on the practice, that I am [...]

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“Being a celebrity isn’t good enough anymore”

December 21, 2006

I was having an email conversation with my brother Graham, about some viral* work that we had seen and we were both panning a recent effort. I am not going to give away who or what the campaign was, as it is the holiday season, I don’t want to rain on anyone’s parade and besides [...]

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World RPS Presentation for Casecamp Second Life

December 14, 2006

Chad Huffhines (aka Doug Walker) of Second Life presented at the first ever Second Life CaseCamp. It was definitely one of the odder experiences of recent years.
I am no SL veteran, so upon being asked up to the stage, my first step was to cleverly fall in the moat that surrounds the stage then fly [...]

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Womma Womma Washington

December 14, 2006

I just got back from the Word of Mouth Marketing Association conference in Washington, DC. The event was well-run, well attended and well worth the time. I also had the honour of being the lunch keynote speaker at the event. Presenting Something from Nothing – The World RPS Society story. Moreover the presentation was followed [...]

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