by Benjamin Ellis | May 18, 2010 | Milestone Planner, On the road
Thursday’s Being-Social Mashup event turned into a focal point for recent thinking and discussion. I chaired a panel on “How Social Media is changing the way we communicate” with Andrew Davis, Chris Thorpe, Jamie Riddell and David Cushman. Of course, within that...
by Benjamin Ellis | Mar 24, 2010 | Milestone Planner, On the road
Last week I had the pleasure of being over at South by South West in Austin, Texas. Although its roots are in the music industry, it is also one of the largest digital interactive events on the planet. Web folks, designers, programmers, agencies and big brands gather...
by Benjamin Ellis | Mar 1, 2010 | Event, On the road
On Friday I had the privilege of speaking on a panel at Like Minds 2010 “Person to Person”, an event looking at the impact of Social Media, all the way from the media through to employee communication. We’ve enjoyed the onversations with organisers...
by Benjamin Ellis | Dec 10, 2009 | On the road
There’s an old joke (or is it a thought experiment?) that’s been updated for the Web 2.0 world: Q: If you gave an infinite number of monkeys an infinite amount of time, would they reproduce the works of Shakespeare ? A: Now we have the blogosphere, we...
by Benjamin Ellis | Dec 9, 2009 | On the road
On Monday Jim and myself headed down the road to Dell’s Bracknell office for their B2B Social Media Huddle. Here’s my redux of the day, via selected highlights from the Twitter stream. @kerryatdell kicked things off with an energiser – hence the...
by Benjamin Ellis | Oct 29, 2009 | Milestone Planner, On the road
The Agile methodology goes beyond it’s application in programming. We certainly aim to use it that way at SocialOptic, but there’s something for all businesses to learn from what’s been happening in the programming world. Jim and I recently headed...
