The revolution will be a live happening online
The other day a Facebook Live stream appeared in my news feed. Nothing remarkable about that, had it not been my sister posting it....
A soonfeed lands on European Commission site
In 2011 I first pitched the concept of a "soonfeed" to a unit at the European Commission. The idea was to develop the...
A Short History of Happenings
If you google the word "happening", Wikipedia will tell you that it's a "performance, event or situation meant to be considered art". That's...
The guru ninjas doubled your traffic with social media. Now triple it.
You may have seen this first graphic in a Kissmetrics blog post last year. Or a similar one in this Buffer post last month. It's been...
Why it doesn’t matter that no one watched your live stream
We tell stories with live happenings on the web. Here's one simple way we boost our returns. A successful happening online is more than...
I’m probably not stupid. Ask me anything.
Eighteen months ago I kicked off my first blog post with: "The fact that no-one else is doing this means I'm pretty clever or very...
Would you watch a live streamed beheading?
Imagine gathering online crowds around live moments of scandal and horror. Because that’s what a website publisher could do with a soonfeed widget. In 1949, 3-year old Kathy Fiscus fell...
5 ways to inflate your social share numbers. How far would you go?
Those numbers you see next to social share buttons in news articles and blog posts? They're misleading at best, and grossly inflated at...
You’re a realtime marketer, didn’t you know?
I got a taste for realtime marketing working in my father's bakery as a kid. On the days I helped out before school,...
“Beforetime” is to realtime what foreplay is to sex. So why are you ignoring it?
This article was published by Netocratic in two parts, on 5 March and 12 March 2013. I’ve made some minor changes in combining the...