Last year I titled my end of year post Lies Damn Lies and Lists. I suggested that I could put Stop Procrastinating at the top of any of my resolution lists and used the fact that I was writing about the number of people writing lists rather than writing a list as an [...]
Archive for December, 2006
Random Thoughts & Observations Backwards and Forward
links for 2006-12-31
When the Got-Its that Don’t Get It is Good
(tags: blogs, social media, strumpette)
Digitas Aims to Keep Edge, Lead in Global Realm - WSJ.com
(tags: advertising, business models, interative, agencies)
Bloggers Link to ‘Web 2.0’ More Than Any Other Wikipedia Entry In 2006
(tags: web2.0, attention, links, blogs, social bookmarking)
Nigel Hollis » Research
(tags: P&G, Immersion, research, marketing)
President John Edwards Delivers The State of The Blogosphere: Part II
Back in July, following John Edwards attendance at Gnomedex, I wrote a blog post suggesting that if John Edwards was elected President in 2008 he would be the first Social Media President. Well, he is definitely the first Social Media candidate.
 The Washington Post coverage yesterday was titled, "Edwards Turns to Non-Traditional Campaign Model" [...]
links for 2006-12-30
STLtoday - News - St. Louis City / County
Missouri’s Commission on Retirement, Removal and Discipline. Most of what the commission does is informal and secret. But the commission does have the power to recommend anything from a public reprimand to removal of the judge from office.
(tags: Dierker, St. Louis Judges, legal, judicial removal)
STLtoday - News [...]
links for 2006-12-29
Rough Type: Nicholas Carr’s Blog: Sharecropping the long tail
Bokardo: The value of self expression
(tags: 2.0 ,attention,Attention Economy,networking, socialmedia, social networks, UGC)
Rocket Science or a matter of common sense? Some friendly suggestions for providers of so called “network connectivity” on conferences
Nicole Simon confronts the wi-fi elephant in the conference.
(tags: conference blogging, live blogging)
YouTube - Nor’s Christmas [...]
Friends of Gavin…Community=Action
An early morning check into Netvibes, a post from Mario Sundar, A Friend in Need. David Armano provides the graphic and a lesson about community.
 A horrible cycling accident involving Gavin Heaton’s father in law, Noel Davies and several friends. That story is here as are the updates. The other "story" is [...]
links for 2006-12-27
Social Networking Awards - The Top Social Networks of 2006 - Mashable!
(tags: social media , networks, trends)
‘Alpha Moms’ pitch Nintendo Wii - Los Angeles Times
(tags: Wii, WOM, viral, MOMs)
Google Maps Mania: 25 Things to do with Google Maps mashups
From Rexblog
(tags: google maps. google, tools, web 2.0)
Happy Holidays!!
 Christmas always seems to bring upon reflection and the need to find and express some insightful meaning from the experience …this combination usually results in the inability to say much of anything due to the fact that, upon reflection, the self imposed goal of meaningful seems to inhibit rather than inspire its achievement. I [...]
links for 2006-12-24
rexblog.com: Rex Hammock’s weblog » Blog Archive » Theory of the day: Mocking bloggers is funny because it’s not funny except to people who know why it’s funny
Rex has the last laugh.
(tags: WSJ, blogs, blogging)
Recruiting a Team of Mouths To Start Product Discussions - WSJ.com
(tags: WOM, brands, brand ambassadors)
Court Ruling Raises Concern Regarding Website Linking [...]
links for 2006-12-23
Deep Jive Interests » But Is The Blogosophere Self-Regulating? Don’t Delude Yourself
(tags: blogging. ethics, attention, regulation)
John Battelle’s Searchblog: Packaged Goods Media v. Conversational Media: Part Two
(tags: 2.0, media, socialmedia ,battelle ,conversational media)
Packaged Goods Media vs. Conversational Media, Part One (Updated)
Part1
(tags: media, 2.0, battelle, conversational social media)
Data Mining: Text Mining, Visualization and Social Media: If You [...]





















Marianne Richmond’s career is an ongoing adventure in strategic brand consultancy. She founded the Resonance Partnership in 2004 and offers a full menu of consulting services from market analysis, concept development, strategy, implementation and measurement.