Trust: How Your Employees hold the Keys to Recovery
In the last 12 months while the Financial Services industry has been standing still, Technology companies have forged ahead in comparative terms, with Technology firms standing some twenty nine...
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The very nature of content today is dynamic – from a conversation that we hold within email changing with each reply, to that of instant messaging, where with the simple application of the up arrow I...
View ArticleRussia and Social Media
As I write this I’m sitting on a train. It’s a rather special train. The 002 from Moscow to Vladivostok. Also known as the Rossiya, the Trans-Siberian train that writes books, fulfils dreams and...
View ArticleHow Facebook’s Experiment Shouldn’t Cause Compliance Emotions to Run Riot
It is impossible to miss the news about how Facebook has been found out for conscripting Facebook users without their knowledge to attempt emotional manipulation. Now one of the data scientists...
View ArticleThe Perfect Storm of Social Privacy, the Law and Rights
We are fast approaching a perfect storm in the world of social media. There are opinions, rulings and guidance approaching from all directions, and they promise to collide in the near future. It...
View ArticleSouth Korea: Where ubiquitous social and Internet access comes with restrictions
In South Korea, the country’s most popular social network and messaging platform, Kakao, with 152 million users, generated 546 million Korean Won (just over a half million US dollars) from gaming...
View ArticleSocial Nomad amongst the Nomads: Mongolia
When I was based in Actiance’s headquarters in California, I used to say to folks that I was actually based on @United.com – because I spent a lot of time on the road for business. I was one of those...
View ArticleA Spiral of Silence encompasses Social Media: When opinions aren’t mainstream...
Born and brought up in Great Britain, I’m completely au fait with not discussing certain issues in public – especially those of politics and salary, a recent survey has shown that I’m not too far off...
View ArticleVietnam: Same, Same, Different
“Same, same, different” is something that you’ll hear everywhere here in Vietnam. It’s a phrase generally used to tell the buyer that this much cheaper version of the bag, dress, bargain that you’re...
View ArticleCollaboration and Social Commerce from Behind the Great Wall: China
The second item to hit the news sites following the September 2014 protests in Hong Kong was not further details on the Hong Kong desire for universal suffrage and the right to select who they can vote...
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