I’m intrigued that Chinese is heralded as the future dominant language of the Internet, closing in on English very quickly.
Missing the point
21 December, 2010 By Leave a Comment
It’s Sunday again so the God talk begins. In another Sermon from Samoa I share the age-old message that the world is missing the point. We all get distracted by people and things, and living a remarkably shallow existence but we often forget to get a “life”. Unfortunately the reality is that many people don’t want to dig deeper and so miss the point. [Read more...]
Facebook connections
15 December, 2010 By Leave a Comment
L loves the way this little puppy shows a concept foreign to Samoans in power – Facebook and global interconnectedness. I will be printing it off in A3 colour and then laminating it for the PM. They say a picture is worth . . .
Facebook Draws a Map of the Connected World: Tech News «
gigaom.com
When you have almost 600 million users and a “social graph” of the connections between them, you can do a lot with that data — so a Facebook intern plotted the connections between millions of users and came up with a map of the socially connected world.
Futurologists agree?
13 December, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Futurologists all agree please: http://www.intac.net/the-internet-in-2020/
13 December, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Which visionary said this when talking about a Tipping Point?
The original proposal of the WWW, HTMLized
www.nic.funet.fi
A hand conversion to HTML of the original MacWord (or Word for Mac?) document written in March 1989 and later redistributed unchanged apart from the date added in May 1990. Provided for historical interest only.
Exposing Samoa
10 December, 2010 By Leave a Comment
The game of exposure, especially from outside of the mainstream media, is one of the paradigm shifts in business, politics and marketing since the arrival of the Internet. Samoa (as well as any brand or business) needs to understand this change, and to develop systems that generate the required exposure. [Read more...]
Samoa Tourism Exchange 2010
4 December, 2010 By 2 Comments
I have spent the last couple of days at the Samoa Tourism Authority’s annual talkfest. I’ve been asked to keep it positive. Sorry, I can’t do that because the world wants to know the truth about Samoa. So I’ll keep it honest but it will be balanced. My take is that Samoa Tourism has some pretty big issues to deal with; they’re getting there, but not as fast as other destinations are! Here are the gory details . . . [Read more...]
The 2-edged sword of Exposure
30 November, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Exposure is a marketer’s aim and successful exposure is represented by increased sales, more bums on seats, higher occupancy levels, increased brand awareness, better reputation and of course an improved bottom-line. Blogs, User-Generated-Content websites such as TripAdvisor and Social Media websites such as Facebook all help generate exposure for a business or an individual, but this can be a two edged sword. [Read more...]
Samoa gets it right
28 November, 2010 By Leave a Comment
It’s Sunday in Samoa. I know because I awake coughing from a mist of Umu smoke, and church bells from East and West letting me know it’s time to get along for my weekly monetary collection session compulsory spiritual guidance session. In this Sermon from Samoa I talk about how Samoa has got it right – not with the church thing but with it’s focus on relationships, even if I do think they take it a little too far. [Read more...]
Bad cops, good cop
26 November, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Samoa turned it on again today, as only Samoa can do! I was arrested and charged. I’ve been told that I will be summonsed to court at a date of someone else’s choosing, who knows when. New Zealand’s top cop says – “Document it all well and have your day in court.” Great! Doesn’t it just want to make you want to invest into Samoa? Or maybe relocate here to live and do business in Paradise? Yeah right! [Read more...]