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Month March 2009

The Walpole Yearbook – my article on Social Media in Luxury

I’ve just posted my article on Social Media in the Luxury sector on my blog:
http://www.ianjindal.com/the-walpole-yearbook-article-on-social-media/
The article was a short one, written to stimulate debate in the luxury sector, where adoption of social media both lagging and also challenged as to whether it’s relevant to the sector.
Research on this was really interesting, and I came across [...]

Amsterdam images

Just updated Flickr with some images I took in Amsterdam while at the IADS conference.
I managed to get a couple of hours’ wandering done after the conference and was lucky with some bright, early spring weather: low sun, nice contrast and best of all wonderful wandering weather.
I took a stroll up to the Central Station [...]

Microposting(s) for March 19th through March 26th

These my micropostings and bookmarks – March 19th through March 26th:

Arduino – HomePage –
Asahi Black – Beers of Europe Ltd – Japanese Beer – Yay. At last a source of Asahi Black that's not just retail (ie Wagamama and Abeno).
Delivery's a bit steep – maybe I should buy in bulk??
User:Matt/Famous Blogs « WordPress [...]

Internet Retailing – first results from the Inspiration Index

The March issue of InternetRetailing’s hitting desks around Europe and we’re able to release the standings after the first ‘dimension’ of the Inspiration Index voting – on “Moments of Brilliance and Delight”.

To recap for those who missed the IRII announcement, the InternetRetailing Inspiration Index focuses upon:
those moments of admiration, enjoyment and – frankly – envy: [...]

Microposting(s) for March 9th through March 15th

These my micropostings and bookmarks – March 9th through March 15th:

http://www.neurofocus.com – Quoth them:
"SIX CRITICAL MEASURES FOR SUCCESS
Neuroscience provides a deep, clear view into the real-world, real-time reactions of consumers at the most elemental level: their brainwaves.
The human brain reacts to stimuli in milliseconds. NeuroFocus captures these reactions thousands of times every second.
Our sophisticated [...]

Getting Canon inkjets to work on a Mac…

So, the ugly, ink-swilling, temperamental Epson Stylus Pro 1270 finally died a death. Total inability to feed paper (bit of a disadvantage in a printer). So, with Vicky having a book to get ready for London Book Fair it was back to the PITA of finding an A3 colour printer for high quality home office [...]

Social Media Influence 2009

Last Tuesday I wandered over to Social Media Influence 2009, organised rather well indeed by Matthew Yeomans (about) and Bernhard Warner (about) (once of CustomCommunications, and now the newly-formed RadarDDB). The event promoter was none other than Mark Pigou of InternetRetailing fame.
The venue was great – the Cavendish Conference Centre – tucked away in a [...]

Speaking: International Association of Department Stores, in Amsterdam

I was pleased to be invited, along with Frederik Nieuwenhuys of Fredhopper.com, to give the keynote at the IADS meeting in Amsterdam on Thursday, looking at the future for department stores online. We received a warm and open welcome at the de Bijenkorf flagship store for two days.
My pleasure turned quickly to a feeling of [...]

You know you have a powerful brand when…

After a week or two of conferencing and marketing meetings I’m getting a bit sick of the talk of ‘branding’ and ‘brand values’. Call me curmudgeonly, but I hold fast to the notion that I as a consumer bestow ‘brand’ status on a product or service and that this status is something earned as a [...]