The internet...
...is making us more brilliant!
Fantastic note on which to end the first day of the Changing Media Summit. See you all tomorrow bright and early for day two.
I’m off to watch a spot of Monkey Tennis.
You stay classy Changing Media Summit.
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JFK on Twitter
Follow @jfk_1963 on Twitter. Stirring moment of seriousness during the hilarity from David Schneider touching on the power of Twitter to tell stories in unexpected ways.
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Tesco audio interview
Ben Robbins talks to Philip Clarke from Tesco.
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Mapping Twitter
David Schneider taking a tongue-in-cheek look at social media - here’s his map of Twitter...
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Kitler
Behold a 30ft image of a cat that looks like Hitler!
Give him a second series!
David Schneider of Alan Partridge fame closes day one of CMS 2014 and in doing so makes my life complete.
Smell my cheese!!!
Tweets
From Rory
From Twitter
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Airbnb audio interview
It’s that man again - Ben Robbins talks to Nathan Blecharczyk, CTO of Airbnb.
Closing keynote
Tesco’s group CEO Philip Clarke takes to the stage.
Airbnb mantra
Nathan Blecharczyk, co-founder and CTO, Airbnb:
Figure out who your evangelists are and build for them...invest in a core set of evangelists.
More audio
Ben Robbins talks to the Guardian’s own marketing director Tim Hunt about open platforms and engaged audiences.
Airbnb breaking news
The next session - a fireside chat between Guardian head of technology Jemima Kiss and Nathan Blecharczyk, co-founder and CTO, Airbnb - gets off to a bang.
Jemima goes right in with the “when is the IPO coming?” question. Evasive and non-committal answer.
Blecharczyk announces that there have been 1 million UK guests on Airbnb as of today. Long live the sharing economy!
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More edited videos from day one of CMS 2014
Forgotten all the useful nuggets of information from this morning? Fear not - the video of the ‘global opportunities in digital’ panel is now up online for your viewing pleasure...
Elephants are in the room!
Videos
More edited video goodness from day one of CMS 2014 - this time in panel form with our opening keynote discussion looking at digital content in a mobile-first world...
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Audio interview
It’s been a while but we’re back with the AudioBoo - Ben Robbins talks to Sky’s Andrew Griffith shortly after he came off stage.
From Twitter
More from the Twittersphere
From Twitter
CMS 2014 video
The first of our edited videos hot off the press - Nancy McKinstry, CEO, Wolters Kluwer opening keynote from CMS 2014.
More tweets
And a news piece from MediaGuardian reporter John Reynolds on the BSkyB “Apple iTunes killer” announcement can be found right about here.
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From Twitter
Insights from Sky
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Lightening response to a lightning presentation
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Back in business
Back from lunch - in a bid to stop me you falling into a rice pudding-induced coma here are a few bits of content for you to sink your teeth into.
First up an interview from Benjamin Robbins with Verizon’s Erik Huggers.
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Lunch
Off to find sustenance and meet some interesting folk. See you back just before 2pm.
Continue to fire your thoughts over to #GdnCMS on Twitter and share the live blog out to your less fortunate colleagues who can’t be with us in the room today.
Huggers on the BBC charter renewal and on the BBC3 move
The BBC will come out all guns blazing and it won’t ultimately be a big issue for them...they will come out just fine like they always have.
The move to take BBC3 exclusively on to the web is the kind of innovation we want to be seeing.
Sagacious words from Twitter
Huggers
Erik Huggers seems nonplussed by Chromecast UK launch announcement:
It’s airplay on steroids...and incredibly cheap. There are many ways that lead to Rome...but they (Google) still don’t address the problem for 100m households across the US and around the world - how do you get a 21st century TV experience? Chromecast is just another HDMI add on product. And all my HDMI sockets are full.
The quest for a consumer-centric device that totally simplifies the user experience continues...
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More tweets
Tweets
BBC of yore
The ghosts of BBC past (Erik Huggers) and present (Rory) on stage to discuss the deal behind the Verizon purchase of Intel’s media assets.
Background reading
Slightly tangental but for the completists amongst you, here’s that piece Rory just mentioned by George Monbiot on lobby groups and media.
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Listen up
BOO!!! Or rather AudioBoo!
It’s that time again. Benjamin Robbins has been speaking to HuffPo’s Jimmy Maymann, “the best dressed man in media” according to Mary Keane-Dawson (she obviously hasn’t spotted my black shirt / black suit Johnny Cash ensemble yet), about audiences. Enjoy.
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Native advertising...
There’s an emerging sense in the room and on Twitter, but seemingly not on stage, that the native advertising proposition currently is a little loose...
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CMS 2014 in a nutshell...
And more still...
More from Twitter
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What you're saying on Twitter...
AudioBoo!
More Dumbledore Jeff Jarvis for you now with another AudioBoo snippet, this time from resident roving reporter Ben Robbins. Expelliarmus!
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Breaking news!
An exclusive scoop for you - Rory Cellan Jones confirms one of this week’s worst kept secrets with the news that Google are to launch their Chromecast TV service to the country’s tech press tonight.
It’s got robots...it’s got smart thermostats...and it’s about to enter the UK TV market...
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More audio...
Sticking with AudioBoo for a moment we have a quick snippet of convo from a very husky Jeff Jarvis (aka the Dumbledore of journalism!) who caught up with none other than AudioBoo founder Mark Rock to talk changing journalism.
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Thanks to our sponsors
That reminds me to say a big thank you to all of our sponsors today, without whose support the event wouldn’t be possible:
Keynote sponsors: MillwardBrown
Event sponsors: Brand Union, Channel4, Havas Media Group, Outbrain
Exhibition sponsor: Twillio
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Background reading
Havas Media Group’s global managing director Dominique Delport is going to be on stage tmrw at 11.45am.
In the meantime we’ve just published a thought piece from him on the Media Network here in which he talks about “big data” becoming “people data”, particularly pertinent in light of the discussion before the break.
Your data policy must be linked to the fundamental business challenges; it’s not just a marketing issue, it’s one of the most exciting business assets you will have and at the core of some of the biggest success stories of our time.
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Back in the room. Up next...
...the battle of the suits. And a discussion about going global in media.
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Break time
Right, I’m off to grab a banana muffin. Back in 20 mins.
Keep your tweets coming through to #GdnCMS and if they’re interesting / provocative / outrageous we’ll get them up on the live blog *
*dependent on just how outrageous.
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Background reading
Ben Huh spoke at our Activate event in New York in November 2013. Here he is on stage.
And here’s a piece he wrote for us on the next stage of the tech revolution on the media industries.
Just when we think we’ve got it figured out, new devices like 4K UHD TV, Occulus Rift, and Google Glass will upend the consumption paradigm again. More opportunities. More challenges. Rinse and repeat.
Jeff Jarvis sporting Google Glass on stage at CMS and asks the panel “is this mobile?”...
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Bumper panel on digital content in a mobile first world
Taking care of...
Background reading
Some additional insights from Nancy McKinstry in a pre-event interview we did with her last week on “investing in innovation”:
Continuous investment in innovation is vital: we invest around 8-10% of our revenues every year in product innovation. And you have to innovate in a very focused way: sitting next to your customer to really understand how they work and what they need. As for technologies, I’d say we have only just begun to see the transformational effects of big data, with an increasing premium on services and tools that can unlock the most value from it.
Tweets from #GdnCMS
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Opening keynote - B2B transition from print to digital
Nancy McKinstry, CEO, Wolters Kluwer provides a B2B focused opening keynote looking at the print to digital transformation undertaken by the global business information service provider - print accounted for 70% of their business in 2004, today, it’s just 23%.
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And away we go!
A slightly belated kick off to the day one live blog from CMS 2014 due to a few technical hitches. We roll with the punches.
It’s a packed room and a packed agenda with the BBC’s Rory Cellan-Jones and the Guardian’s deputy CEO David Pemsel kicking things off.
Quoting the Guardian’s editor in chief Alan Rusbridger (who last night received a special award at the European Press Awards for the Edward Snowden / NSA surveillance story), Pemsel spoke about the commercial benefits of an open approach to journalism:
Open journalism gives a more complete picture. And we do it because, if we don’t open ourselves, people will simply do it elsewhere.
Why compete when you can collaborate? It’s better commercially.
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