Bob Gourley, the CTO and Founder of Crucial Point LLC, is a former CTO for the Defense Intelligence Agency. If anyone knows C4ISR, it is him. The Marketing Consiglire encourages CEOs and CMOs to read his April 2, 2008 entry in his blog, CTO Vision – “What’s Next in Enterprise IT.” There are clear implications for Net-Centric Marketing. Of particular note is a slide presentation of his personal predictions of change […]
The FOSE show this year as a whole was not anything to write home about; many from the circles that The Marketing Consigliere knows avoided it this year. Nevertheless he wanted to see if any net-centric marketing products or services were being “Fed-peddled.” It seemed like every fifth booth either was some sort of document imaging and management platform or a device for shredding hard drives. But […]
The Scream, by Edvard Munch (1863-1944), National Gallery, Oslo In the April 2008 Wired in “It’s All in Your Head,” Clive Thompson recently wrote about technology beaming to our heads and the inevitable civil rights battle over the act of doing so. While it is reminiscent of my February blog entitled “EmSense – Common Sense or Nonsense?,” it’s not about mind reading but about mind influencing – through advertising. […]
Back in December, The Marketing Consigliere blogged about the “Do Not Track” movement and how it was not good for B2C business (Do Not Resuscitate “Do Not Track” Part I & Part II). While he was critical of the privacy interest groups, he does have a sense of humor and admires their depiction of privacy intrusion in a Flash video he stumbled on the at the ACLU website. It portrays […]
Last week in the February 18, 2008 issue of Advertising Age,the headline article by Bradley Johnson was entitled “Media Work Force Sinks to 15-Year Low.” So jobs were bad in the last recession of the early 1990s and they’re bad again. OK… The article’s graph clearly shows media jobs peaking during the dotcom bubble, rapidly shrinking, but finally leveling off for the past few years and […]
Last year, Super Bowl XLI was interesting in that the Doritos commercial was made from user-generated content and this year for Super Bowl XLII they promoted their brand with user-generated music. Regarding advertising, there were the “usual suspects” who provided acceptable, entertaining commercials that were spoken about at the water cooler the following week; but from a social networking or technological view this Super Bowl was a bit of […]
U.S. Patent Application #20070291710 by Apple Inc. basically is a device that can track where a customer makes purchases, and what was purchased. With this information, loyalty programs can be enhanced for regular customers who may buy certain categories of goods habitually. Orders could be placed on particular meals, such as a favorite pizza, and the customer could be notified when seating is ready or the pizza is […]
Since my latest blog in The Marketing Consigliere Blog this week on proposed Behavioral Advertising regulation, the Federal Trade Commission has issued “Online Behavioral Advertising – Moving the Discussion Forward to Possible Self-Regulatory Principles,” a 7-page proposal of voluntary guidelines with which businesses can regulate themselves. After reading the document, I am satisfied that the FTC not responded in a knee-jerk reaction to the shrill, lone voices of those that do […]
This is a topic I’ve needed some time to digest mentally before I stuck my proverbial virtual foot in my virtual mouth. I remember a few weeks ago reading about the FTC hearings on the “Do Not Track” requests coming from some consumer groups. Instantly I thought that the whole behavioral targeting engine would come to a screeching halt. My C4ISR Marketing common sense told me “that […]
For the past couple days in the United States, some Internet activity was subdued because most businesses were closed and many people were preoccupied with the Thanksgiving holiday. The Marketing Consigliere says “some” because he meant the human traffic. If you think about it, the non-human traffic and computing did not rest one bit. Spiders continued to scan sites for search engine rankings; the work […]