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Why Starbucks Is An Experience

Why Starbucks Is An Experience

I’ve had some great discussions this week on Twitter as to whether Starbucks is a good example of the experience economy or not. This is a video response from Qik, which I filmed – naturally – in Starbucks. Unfortunately it goes a bit funny at the end because someone called me, but, you get the [...]

A Compelling Experience: The Original Word Of Mouth

A Compelling Experience: The Original Word Of Mouth

Women In Touch did a conference last week (my client and church initiative), which I was heavily involved in. The thing that I always hear people repeat about WIT, believe it or not, does not major on the two ‘selling points’ of most Christian conferences which are the teaching and the music. What I hear [...]

Digitall, Digicool, Digitool and Diginots

Earlier this year, some aliens visited earth. They came to do some research and enjoy a Starbucks — but unfortunately for them, they left this research behind at the table they were sitting at and I happened to pick it up. Lucky me. I had a good read and discovered that they were researching social [...]

A Sonnet To Google Wave

A Sonnet To Google Wave

I love Lars. I also love Google Wave. So when I went to sign up for a beta invite, and I was wondering what quirky thing to write to heighten my chances of getting an invite sooner, I saw that “Haikus, sonnets and ASCII art all accepted”… “Wonderful!” Thought I, and after 5 minutes of [...]

Lessons from the Exeter Twitterati

Lessons from the Exeter Twitterati

One of the greatest things about Exeter is the number of Twitter users. A search on Twellow.com yields a list of around 200 users which is pretty big for a city of Exeter’s size. And we’re not just any old bunch of 200 Twitter users – we have some really great people who are leading [...]