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Crossposted from Fremtidens Relationer. I first “met” John Naisbitt at about 0200 on a Sunday morning in 1983, in the bowels of the US Naval Intelligence Processing Systems Support Activity (NIPSSA) in Suitland, Maryland, USA. Looking for something to read…

Yesterday, in show #2 of the Better Desirable Roasted Communications CafĂ© Podcast, Lee Hopkins and I talked about virtual project teams . I believe smart independent communicators, meeting each other in the PR/communication Oort cloud, will soon form temporary, virtual…

Welcome to the world of Karl Marx

by Allan Jenkins on March 15, 2006

“Welcome to the world of Karl Marx” is Arie de Geus’ greeting to corporate leaders. “Capital is a commodity. Human talent is not.” Here are my notes from the Don’tStop01 Business Innovation Conference we are holding here in Copenhagen. Arie…

Common Sense Blogging Thoughts from NewComm Forum

by Allan Jenkins on March 3, 2006

Shel Holtz has written a great summary of Debbie Weil’s Corporate Blogging Case Studies at the New Communication Forum (wish I was there soaking it all up). It’s all good, but one line I like came from Paul Rosenfeld, general…

I love all my clients, of course, but I have particular affection for the Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies. My other clients are typical businesses: the halls are buzzing with folks rushing around to the next meeting, wrapping up from…

Model Corporate Blog

by Allan Jenkins on November 17, 2005

Via friend Shel Holtz (apparently, Holtz got a little Kryptonite on his recent vacation; at any rate, he’s finding the gems): Niall Kennedy has seen enough of both to cobble together a demo blog to display the way a business…

Update 13 November 2005: Eric Eggertson is following this outrage pretty closely… I’d quote some of his stuff, but I would swear violently, and I don’t like to do that on Sundays. Just go read. Is Sony Music winning this…

When would you choose premium service over lower price?

by Allan Jenkins on November 9, 2005

Fellow MarCom Blog contributor Dale Wolf takes a look at the everyday tradeoff: would you rather pay for premium service, or opt for the lowest cost product? Drawing on a recent Reveries article, Wolf unsurprisingly finds buyers opting for premium…

Sanctimony, not Kate Moss, Source of Fashion PR Headaches

by Allan Jenkins on September 23, 2005

For my first post on the MarComBlog (which I talked about yesterday), I’ve chosen to look at why any PR damage suffered by fashion houses in the Kate Moss affair is largely self-inflicted. Here’s an excerpt. The headline takes you…

Rise of the Micro Multinational

by Allan Jenkins on August 29, 2005

Hal Varian discusses the rise of the micro multinational in this NYT article. In it he describes how businesses with a half-dozen employees spread across 3 continents can still do business effectively, using socia media and micro-media. He goes on…