Future

August 3, 2012 by Simon Mainwaring

As the days when social media was pegged as a fad drift from memory, mobile advertising has risen to take its place. Will mobile ads be effective, what ad format works best, who will win the mobile payments battle and why? Yet a quick glance at the infographic by Luma (above) should be enough to assure anyone […]

July 31, 2012 by Simon Mainwaring

I had a special moment in London last week that I wanted to share. Five years ago when I started writing We First, I had no idea what I was doing or if it would amount to anything. When it came to writing the Epilogue, I went up to a friend’s house and locked myself …

July 10, 2012 by Simon Mainwaring

Branding for Good were kind enough to ask me a few questions about how you build a sustainable economy and business at the Sustainable Brands Conference in San Diego. I touch on the larger vision for how we can engage the entire private sector in scaling social change, the role we must play with our own businesses, and …

June 18, 2012 by Simon Mainwaring

A few weeks ago I shared an infographic of the social media landscape so that we can all consider our place and future in it. The impact of that inforgraphic is compounded when you consider the explosion of the Social TV ecosystem show above. This chart shows the main players in the Social TV landscape …

June 14, 2012 by Simon Mainwaring

At the risk of sounding like an old man, it’s amazing how time flies. It’s a year to the day that We First, the book, came out, and I wanted to take this opportunity to thank everyone for their support and contribution to a shift in perception and practice in the private sector. As social media …