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Digital Consultant links for March 31st through April 6th

These are my links for March 31st through April 6th:

The Collective Intelligence Genome – Fascinating findings from research from MIT's Centre for Collective Intelligence showing ways you can use open source development or 'crowd sourcing' as part of a production or decision making process.
One-third of users willing to pay for apps – Interesting mobile stats: just 35% of mobile users willing to pay for apps, highest in iPhone users, lowest in Android, although Blackberry users pay far more than iPhone users on average per app. This is definitely the growth area for digital content and services development, showing users will pay up for mobile content. But it shows that the serious money isn't in iPhone and producers should look at spreading their production and distribution across multiple mobile platforms.
SEO 101: Everything You Need to Know About SEO (But Were Afraid to Ask) – Regular readers of this blog will know I'm no big fan of SEO (or 'snake something oil' as one social media guy I know described it) but in recent months I've mellowed on the subject – when using good navigation, good content and good structures supports people to find and discover good content I'm all for it and there's no doubt it's the affordable way for a small business to draw traffic to their e-commerce site. This is a brilliant guide – one of those that you can read and learn about 80% of what you need to know about SEO in one quick hit. Which is good because it means less time spent reading about SEO…

These are my links for December 11th from 14:03 to 14:07:

Seth’s Blog: Is it too late to catch up? – A great nugget from the often eloquent Seth Godin on how a company who have done little or nothing in the online space can play catch-up: start with basic stuff: email, e-newsletter, reading and bonuses for online engagement. Do stuff and learn as you do. I disagree though about not having meetings about web strategy: strategy can go alongside (or before or during) the doing to add value.
Serious games: key trends for the healthcare sector – Another article I wrote for the Engagement Strategy journal for healthcare and pharmaceutical marketing leaders. This is about serious games, an area I've been involved with for many years, giving an overview of serious gaming trends in mainstream health games, and also specialist research and software. Includes interviews with Playgen and Active Ingredient.
Social media as a healthcare research tool – I forgot to link to this before…my head was full of forthcoming holidays and suntan lotion.
Here is an article I recently wrote for Engagement Strategy, a journal for healthcare and pharmaceutical marketing leaders, which is all about social media and online tools used for research – i.e. the bit before you do the engagement with people. Includes an overview of sentiment analysis, crowd-sourcing and open innovation.