March 13, 2006

Social capital in markets

Johnnie Moore

I’m Johnnie Moore, and I help people work better together

Home
Branding
Social capital in markets

Earl Mardle picks up on my post about MakeUpAlley and talks about SewingPatternReview and the success of Trade Me

These people come here to buy and sell stuff where do they get off holding online conversations about everything from music to dealing with depression? Don’t they know the web is about monetising something or other? Where on earth is the value in all this blabber? Well they are doing what happens in every genuine marketplace in the world, where the trading is only half the reason for being there; and the value approximates $700 million of Fairfax money somehow.

Waterfalls and chaos

I linked to this paper on wicked problems the other day and Chris Corrigan commented “there’s a lot in that paper eh?”. Which is true.

Unhurried marketing

I’m experimenting with marketing less and listening more

Medinge Moments

Just back from another extraordinary gathering at Medinge where the community that has produced Beyond Branding meets each summer. I was planning to keep this

Blogging for Ourhouse

Welcome to the Ourhouse Weblog. Blogging is something I’ve become increasingly interested in. Earlier this month I set up the Beyond Branding Blog which is

Keeping up with Tony Goodson

The competitive streak in me means I need to keep with Tony Goodson’s blog. The struggles of learning to speak “Movable Type” and thoughts on the nature of blogging.

The power of community

Earlier today I was writing about passion brands and the power of community. I got a small but interesting example of this principle in action when I visited Ton Zijltra’s blog to find that he’s opened a separate blog on his planned abandonment of Microsoft.

Passion brands bring people together based on common interests and excitements. I’m particularly interested in ones created from the bottom up, as opposed to driven by producers concerned mainly with profit.

The volatile chemistry of trust

Interesting research from Stanford suggests that exciting brands get more trusted after making mistakes and putting them right whilst more “sincere” brands start with more trust but lose it more easily. Perhaps the sensible interpretation is that second-guessing customers can be a waste of time!

Customer-centricity: is it the answer?

Michael Hammer’s new book, The Agenda, is about the rise of customer power. But is customer-centricity really such a good model for business and society?

What brand are you?

Thanks to Matt Tucker at Smith Associates for telling me about What Brand Are You. It strikes me that lots of companies waste money on

More Updates

Lessons from “The Logic of Failure”

Fascinating insights into the patterns of failure

20 April 2018

Emotional debt

Releasing the hidden costs of pent up frustrations

30 June 2017

Aliveness

Finding the aliveness below the surface of stuck

3 November 2016

They’ve seen it before…

Don’t get attached to your favourite process

24 September 2016

Keeping it simple

The virtues of stripping back your processes

31 May 2016

In a network, in a mess, or in a mesh?

Sometimes it’s ok to stay confused and entangled

1 May 2016

The perils of abstraction

Charles Scalfini gives a concise explanation of a way experts often make bad teachers. As their experience in a subject grows, they are able to form more and more useful abstractions.

15 October 2016

Actions, words etc

Do you remember that in classical times when Cicero had finished speaking the people said, ‘How well he spoke,’ but when Demosthenes had finished speaking, the people said, ‘Let us

11 January 2008

Emotions

Shawn Callahan sometimes shares this little video clip with people without much preamble, and then asks them what they see happening: OK, most people ascribe human emotions and actions to

5 December 2014

links for 2010-03-10

Gov 2.0: A Peace Corps for Programmers "Our government should be at least as capable as a quickly organized group of virtual volunteers. It will certainly have the budget for

Social capital in markets

Johnnie Moore

Share Post

More Posts

More Updates