Conversational Media Group Blog

Last week Jeremiah asked people to share their media consumption diet. There were a number of responses.
At the time that I responded,only Chris Saad and Brian Keith mentioned that they used the major social networks as a source of communication. Twitter did receive slightly more attention, but then again, exchanging answers to the question […]

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OK, this is for real and Michelle Malkin is one of the hosts and it is called “Its Out There.” I agree, just not sure where it is. The Bad Guy says it owes a lot to Entertainment Tonight. I would agree. He also wonders where the blogger shows are on other networks since Fox […]

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Jeremiah Owyang has started a meme on personal media consumption and asked that others join in…Media 2.0 Workgroup members Chris Saad and Peter Kim,have posted responses and Brian Keith, Martin McKeay, Zac Echola also. So here goes, following Jeremiah’s format: (most used at top, least used at bottom)
Web: Primarily, I use RSS via Netvibes which […]

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The other night, on a Skype chat with Chris Saad and Toby Bloomberg, we reached a point in discussing an issue where we needed input on a specific point..Chris immediately said, “Let me see if he is on Skype and we can add him to the discussion.”
OK, well no big deal you say? We do […]

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Church of the Customer recently highlighted a story from the Wall Street Journal about the law firm, Sullivan & Cromwell, LLP who in response to low morale and an excessive level of associate turnover initiated a program to encourage partners to show more appreciation and respect to the firm’s associates.
Specifically, the need to […]

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MySpace recently announced that it was developing software that would be installed on home computers and allow parents to monitor the profile name, age, and location that children (or presumably any other computer user) provides when setting up a profile.It monitors sign ins from the computer on which it is installed as well as from […]

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According to Adrants the NFL consumer generated advertising contest was won by…an ad guy. The rules excluded employees of the NFL and anyone who has ever known or sat next to an NFL employee but did not exclude employees of ad agencies. Gino Bono is the new business development director for the Garand Agency.
I wonder […]

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Sprint provides more data today for the risks of not listening to existing customers.
 GigaOm wrote, " In the fourth quarter ending December 31,2006, Sprint Nextel lost post-paid 306,000 subscribers, the only metric that counts amongst the Wall Street types. The stock fell about 10% and the company is cutting 5000 jobs.
Today, GigaOm and Mobile […]

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Sprint announced that they were putting their $1.2 to $1.5 billion dollar advertising budget in review and according to Sprint spokeswoman Mary Nell Westbrook {Sprint is} "looking for a fresh approaches and new thinking." Great strategy, poor execution. …or great strategy, wrong department, wrong channel, wrong blame attribution.
Let’s look at another Sprint announcement about advertising, […]

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