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Re: http://disqus.com/preview/

@barryfurby — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 09:42:42 -0000

whats all this about then???

Re: What Have You Bought, Because Of Social Media?

@barryfurby — Thu, 20 May 2010 07:12:59 -0000

probably just because I spend a lot of time in the area (Camden, Piccadilly and Soho) and appreciated that they'd made the effort to reach out to social media to attract consumers.

Re: What Have You Bought, Because Of Social Media?

@barryfurby — Wed, 26 May 2010 08:52:24 -0000

I'll try and dig out a tweet I saw the other day, a restaurant offering BIG discount to their mayor on Four Square....

Re: Camden Council crowdsources ‘shop local’ campaign

@barryfurby — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 15:52:35 -0000

great work Charlotte

Re: Tools to help publish, monitor & grow your socialmedia presence

@barryfurby — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 16:00:08 -0000

a fantastic presentation mark, we look forward to having you back at Social Media Monday soon...

Re: What is a Modern Marketing Organization

@barryfurby — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 04:32:50 -0000

Got it on the head, Digital + Social Media = " the tactics we employ, and more about our overall approach to the complexities of the modern consumer." - We're living in exciting times and consumers are telling us more about themselves everyday. I see Social as a great opportunity to understand more about our consumers (and piers) and tune our approach towards what we learn from this 'social technology' - We're all still learning...!

Re: What is a Modern Marketing Organization

@barryfurby — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 08:34:19 -0000

absolutely, I agree that social media cannot be seen is innovation solely on merit, what we're seeing is innovation in technology and ways to utilise it - Foursquare for me is at the leading edge - mobile, social, location tagging - exciting..!

Re: In A Year…

@barryfurby — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 09:19:46 -0000

Wow - What a fantastic year its been though..!

Congrats on the great work and everything that the #likeminds community stands for :-)

Re: What is a Modern Marketing Organization

@barryfurby — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 06:08:05 -0000

Recently there have been several superb examples of using Foursquare - CatchaChoo for one - But to be honest where I doubt there is such an interest - maybe as it becomes more widespread I'll join :-)

Re: What is a Modern Marketing Organization

@barryfurby — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 06:13:10 -0000

Absolutely - its a really important part of social when we start talking about positive/negative consumer feedback - trusted reviews from our piers are a huge influence on our decision making process afterall.

Re: 8 reasons why BP doesn’t need to give a f**k about social media

@barryfurby — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 07:24:32 -0000

clearly crisis management shouldn't be to turn off all channels of communication inc social media, and although they cant come of out this smelling of roses they could easily demonstrate exactly what they are doing to help the situation .

Re: Gemma Went – SoCol Live Blogger

@barryfurby — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 05:12:38 -0000

fantastic to have you onboard Gemma :-)

Re: Another look at Scattering Seeds

@barryfurby — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 07:42:25 -0000

Fantastic work Scott, this truly is a great example how relationships can flourish in a likeminded community, and that by giving some thing away for free can add solidarity, bond those relationships and result in something much more valuable.

Back to your point about predicting a value based relationship - I don't think you can sense which ones are going to be more valuable than others, but if we all approached things this way it would certainly make it a much less aggressive marketplace to participate.... and you can certainly tell when the sincerity isn't reflected from others.

Re: nick tadd: We've reached saturation point - content is not king.

@barryfurby — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 05:40:18 -0000

@Nick, Great post, presumably what you're saying is that there are reasons surrounding great content that people come back, experience, fellowship being key - not sure that a great experience can be delivered without the right content.

@Glenn - I like your thinking "content may not be king but it is the alpha"

Re: What the heck is Danny Brown up to?

@barryfurby — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 17:39:24 -0000

ha, hear I am checking out headway and you're adding to the suspense.... Bonsai...!

Re: The Listening Post

@barryfurby — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 08:37:50 -0000

I recently attending a talk by James Caan (@jamescaan) and he touched on technology and social media being a powerful tool to break down boundaries and give us the opportunity to better research our prospects - he followed that by saying there's no better replacement to "picking up the f***ing phone" - shocked us to hear it put that way - but totally agree

Re: Guest blog: Back to the future…

@barryfurby — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 11:01:02 -0000

Whilst I'm not going to sit on the fench with this one, I'm leaning on it... I worked in retail, as a sales manager for Sony Centre for a number of years, they know they're not the cheapest so the approach was to either offer best service, advice, aftercare or sell really hard to anyone that laid eyes on that plasma at the front of the shop...!

Needless to say, I managed two stores that out performed local high street retailers based on quality or service. Our sales staff were trained, trained really well, they were trained to sell, but not aggressively - they'd question, listen, inform and present advice for a future purchase - those customers purchased or walked back a month later (past a cheaper store) to purchase from us based on them previous conversations.

Now if we apply this to Social Media I think we're somewhere to near that fence? We need to tick both boxes without making someone feel ‘captive’ right?

Re: Social Media Monday, July 5th – SMMo.TV?

@barryfurby — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 11:27:06 -0000

thanks Bernie, really happy that we're safely not in the lame ass category of events too :-)

Re: Great Content Marketing Experiment – Followup

@barryfurby — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 11:33:24 -0000

thanks Andrew, the report is definitely insightful in the respect of how we might approach pitching social along side more traditional content marketing briefs.

I completely agree that if all 1,000 people had contributed to the document there would be a much more positive attempt to share and distribute across the network.

Maybe something SMMo should be looking at?

Re: After the digital party… the social media clean-up

@barryfurby — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 10:07:33 -0000

Great post, this is REAL.... I've seen examples of candidates not getting offers, employee's being researched by the brand name clients of agencies and sacked etc.

We should treat the advice above seriously, I know there are critics who say that people don't do this and its unethical, I know they DO...!

Re: We Are Social. We Are Two

@barryfurby — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 16:24:34 -0000

Happy Birthday guys, great work in a short period of time - much more to come..!

Re: Change is the Essence of Growth

@barryfurby — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 05:33:59 -0000

Interesting post Scott, I think in an ever evolving and fast paced world we need structure and processes to follow. The value comes in evaluating those processes against what we learn by carrying them out everyday.

ps. Thanks for the link, I just bought Switch and will circle back when I've got through it :)

Re: You don’t need to follow in line…

@barryfurby — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 12:45:57 -0000

Sometimes I feel there is disparity between what is preached and what happens in practice... Seth clearly talks sense, I loved Tribes, it was a great read. But actually, I truly believe that the stronger communities (particularly on-line) are those where there is no clear leader, and the community spirit or passion for a common topic are what drives the tribe.

Re: The Influence Project Hijackers Surrender

@barryfurby — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 06:17:33 -0000

Hi Nate,

I shared your excitement at the early stage of this project, and understand the reason it went ahead to start with.

However, the decision to change direction is completely understood, and respected through and through, and should not be seen as failure. In fact to have been able to succinctly been able top talk us through the reasons in this decision making progress has bought even more value - thank you and well done :)

@barryfurby

Re: The Great Content Marketing Experiment 19th May 2010

@barryfurby — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 11:41:35 -0000

check out the follow up post here > http://www.socialmediamonda...