In the recent Greenpeace direct action against Nestlé, which I have labeled as The Kit Kat Incident, early in the fray the NGO accused Nestlé, the target of the Greenpeace social media campaign, of censorship when Nestlé asked YouTube to delete a Greenpeace culture jamming protest video from the YouTube site. If you are unfamiliar [...]
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Richard Telofski is a competitive strategy analyst. Specializing in anti-corporate activism, he examines the actions of "irregular competitors" (i.e., activists and NGOs) and how those organizations impact business from within online and offline media. Insidious Competition Sponsored Links |
April 15th, 2010 | Tags: Greenpeace, social media, social web, we know who you are Greenpeace strategic weakness | Category: Greenpeace, Hypocrisy, Irregular Competition, NGOs, Threats | Leave a comment
Corporate Watch. Do you know who they are? Well, Corporate Watch, located in London, UK, is a research organization with the objective: to examine the oil industry, globalistion, genetic engineering, food, toxic chemicals, privatisation and many other areas, to build up a picture of almost every type of corporate crime and the nature and mechanisms of corporate [...] February 16th, 2010 | Tags: anti-corporate, Anti-Corporatism, anticorporate, Competitive Intelligence, Corporate Watch, CorporateWatch.org-ICTI, Facebook, irregular competition threat index, MySpace, social media, social media campaign, socialist, Twitter | Category: Anti-Corporatism, Case Studies, Corporate Watch, Irregular Competition, Research, Threat Index | Leave a comment
Introduction Social media is an environment that is seemingly tailor-made for NGOs and activists to exploit. Among other characteristics, social media are accessible to almost everyone in the developed world. Social media are pervasive; more and more people use social media every day. Social media are inexpensive. And social media skew young. Because of these factors, economically, [...] February 4th, 2010 | Tags: Activism, NGO, social media, Strategy, Twitter | Category: Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace, Irregular Competition, Research, Strategy | Leave a comment
It’s always quite amazing that every four years the price of oil is blamed on the American administration, no matter who happens to be sitting at 1600 Pennsylvania. May 27th, 2008 | Tags: 1600 Pennsylvania, 2008, blame, cause, Chinese GDP, GDP of China, government, high oil prices, oil prices, pandering poser, politicians, presidential candidates, pure research, Research, social media, trend | Category: Truth | Leave a comment
Here’s a cute little test to see how much you know about social media. May 23rd, 2008 | Tags: Business Week, IQ, quiz, social media, test | Category: Tactics | Leave a comment
Because I see social media as becoming a fast and socially-accepted substitute for human interaction. May 15th, 2008 | Tags: alienated, American, American society, context, lifestyle, meaning, narcissistic, News Corp, remedy, social media | Category: Truth | Leave a comment
Maybe it’s just me, but I wonder why social media mavens can’t communicate clearly. May 13th, 2008 | Tags: banker, black, business plan, clients, communicate, financial, Guru.com, innovative, Internet, language, mavens, programming, programming code, project, social media, standards, today's media, understanding | Category: Humor | 2 comments
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