The public doesn’t quite get the ‘Big Society’ idea, either because of unclear communication, or there’s something lacking in the slogan itself. It’s even less well understood by the younger age groups, judging from this piece in Marketing: http://www.marketingmagazine.co.uk/news/1055618/Big-Society-front-public-spending-cuts-finds-study/ Driving around our increasingly untidy main roads, there’s so much litter lying around, that we can [...]
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Old notions of privacy appear to be obsolete in the always-on, in-your-Facebook world of the mobile internet. ‘Friends’ can be complete strangers, in whom personal information and sentiments are confided. ‘Friends’ can apparently be brands too, and location-enabled mobile marketing means that they know where you are, and intend to make money out of that knowledge. There are few if any social barriers to entry, and for many, the more so-called friends the better.
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