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Threads, AI Privacy & Love Bombing
This week we’ll be giving you some solid advice.
From whether your brand should be on Threads, to how to use AI without becoming part of the AI machine (not easy) and why micro-influencers give you more bang for your buck.
On the career front, we’ll be talking how to avoid love-bombing (as a recruiter or an employee) and could adult work experience be the answer to burnout?
Let’s get into it
Terms & Conditions, Mascara & Truck Driving
This week we’ll be talking terms and conditions, mascara, and truck driving – an eclectic mix, if ever there was one.
What do these things all have in common? As always, they can teach us more about the worlds of tech, marketing, and the people and strategy behind all of it.
We’ll be encouraging you to read the small print, asking what really makes something viral, and dissecting the latest downward spiral in Elon Musk Land. We’ll also be finding out what makes lazy girls tick, and how is going into the office like a workout?
Let’s get into it.
Threads, AI & Bad PR
This week, we ask, were Meta able to launch Threads because of Elon Musk (spoiler alert, yes, absolutely) and speaking of him, why is Mr M actually hiding tweets?
Plus, some interesting musings on the “global water cooler”, Shein’s disastrous PR trip to sweatshops, I mean factories, in China, and can AI help us learn languages?
Let’s get into it.
Cage Fights, Apples & Dark Data
This week, two tech millionaires have agreed to a cage fight, and Apple are trying to trademark apples. No, seriously.
We also bring you concrete ways to reduce the carbon footprint of the contents of your phone, how to ensure your LinkedIn profile is as showing you in the best light.
Plus, how can the creators of AI Large Language Models ensure that they don’t do more harm than good?
Let’s get into it.
What Can AI Actually Do? Interviews, Marketing & Replacing Salma Hayek
Generative AI, Artificial Intelligence, Large Language Models – whatever it’s being called, it’s literally all anyone is talking about right now.
Our LinkedIn feed is full of post after post about how to use ChatGPT to become a millionaire overnight, how to get AI to do your job for you, and people claiming to be “Prompt Engineers”. In contrast, news outlets take a much more sceptical, even fearful, approach.
The first wave of hype was simply about the fact that it existed, but now we know what it is, what can it actually do?
Let’s get into it.
Motivational Memos & Dyslexic Thinkers
This week we’re watching Linda Yaccarino bat it out of the park as Twitter’s new CEO, but will she be able to undo the mess Elon Musk made with Twitter staff?
Plus, Apple step it up a notch in the Apple vs. Android Wars, Mark Zuckerberg continues being Spock, AI can’t save us from burnout, and how Dyslexic Thinkers can take your business to the next level.
Let’s get into it.
The Big Apple
This week we’re doing an Apple special. Despite the fact that Tim Cook is the blandest and least charismatic most cardboard man ever to lead a tech company, making Bill Gates look like Elvis Presley and forcing us to fondly reminisce the day when Steve Black Turtleneck Jobs was at the helm, right now Apple are undeniably at the centre of a lot of the current tech and marketing trends.
From the introduction of spatial computing via headset, to their very Apple take on the current AI hype and why their marketing very rarely misses.
Let’s get into it.
Social Media Misfires
This week we’re doing a deep dive on the best, and by definition also worst, social media misfires and fails from LinkedIn influencers, brands, hiring companies, and HBO’s intern.
From the person you never thought would be getting a mention in an “inspirational” post to Amazon Ring really not reading the room on TikTok, and what happens when you don’t proofread your job postings (and you’re a terrible person).
Plus, when to consider being quiet.
Let’s get into it.
Brain Chips & Chat Bots
This week we’re bringing you the tales of the future…today, whether it’s a good thing or not.
From Elon Musk’s Neuralink finally actually getting somewhere, slower than the Swiss mind you, to esports really hitting the big time, and why soft skills may be more important than qualifications in the workplace in a post pandemic world.
Plus, the chat bots invading our most personal spaces.
Let’s get into it.
Inspector Gadget
This week we’ll be looking at all things new in the world of tech. Inventions are hitting the news at lighting speed, with AI in the driver’s seat whether we like it or not.
From Sam Altman’s potentially two-faced plea to the senate for AI regulations, to Alexa’s need to catch up with the new kid in town before she gets pushed off her pedestal – she’s already toppling – to Apple’s new accessibility features, free TV sets and the latest in VR/AR headsets.
Let’s get into it.
Weird & Wonderful TikTok
This week we’ll be diving into the weird and wonderful world of TikTok.
Unlike Instagram, Facebook or Twitter, which have remained by and large pretty mainstream, TikTok has something for literally anyone and everyone, thanks to their famously powerful algorithm.
From selling houses and crime shaming, to packing videos and recipe reactions, are there no limits to what we will watch 18 seconds of? Also, what can the official Paralympic account get away with?
Let’s get into it.
AI, James Bond & Sleep
This week the “shocking” revelations of one of the pioneers of AI raise questions, such as, is it really that shocking?
We also look at how to deal with the rising uses of AI in the creative field, from how to stay in a job to the ongoing Hollywood writers’s strike.
And when it comes to hustle culture, who is leaning in and who is leaning out?
Let’s get into it.
Blue Ticks & Being Real
This week we are of course going to dissect Elon Musk’s ever chaotic management of Twitter, why is he so obsessed with changing the blue tick?
We’ll also be asking, is Be Real really so last year, what’s worse, AI or media journalism, and can you choose your colleagues?
Let’s get into it.
Leadership - The Good, The Bad & The Ugly
Our bonus item last week put the spotlight on the confessions of Shark Tank’s Barbara Corcoran on Diary Of A CEO, which did NOT go down well.
It got us thinking, can you be a huge success and a terrible boss? Are certain big names known for their particular ways of working (think Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Sheryl Sandberg and of course the infamous Musky Musk) doing something right, or everything wrong?
Let’s get into it.
Intense Interviews & Horrible Bosses
This week we’re digging a bit deeper into Elon Musk’s snap interview with the BBC, does he understand what misinformation is, and is his dog actually the brains behind new Twitter?
We’re also taking a peek at women in coding and seeing how benefits packages can be personalised to keep talent happier for longer.
Let’s get into it.
Marketing Misfires & Ad Armageddon
This week we’ve been inspired by a dubious Heinz ad (more on that in the bonus) to bring you a rundown of the top five worst marketing campaigns that backfired big time.
From a terrifying stalker car to a not very well thought out deal on air miles via graveyard billboards.
Let’s get into it.
TikTok vs. The World
This week we’re doing a deep dive on TikTok and the possibility of a ban in the US and across the rest of the western world.
Why? How? What will the effect be on creators? How did the app get so popular in the first place, and most importantly, why are TikTok users now referring to CEO Shou ZI Chew as “zaddy”?
Let’s get into it.
TikTok Teleshopping & LinkedIn Spies
This week we’ll be looking at the “revelation” of the future dangers of AI, the TikTok Teleshopping phenomenon and why a digital detox is now pretty much impossible.
Also, we learn that the espionage game is changing along with new technology and new ways of working, plus Coca-Cola hit it out of the park again with a new AI marketing campaign.
Let’s get into it.
Muskland & TikTok Ageism
This week we discuss the global supervillain in the making Elon Musk’s worrying foray into town building, how TikTok has warped the way we see ageing, and the damning evidence that your phone actually IS making you depressed.
Plus why a humble money transfer app is ruining lives, and the newest dating site that you don’t want to sign up to. .
Let’s get into it.
Therapist Influencers & Mouse-Movers
This week we follow the continuing saga of Elon Musk and his destruction of Twitter and the team morale of everyone who works there, the unfair reality of discrimination against LGBTQ+ people in the traditional workplace, and how to make your website more sustainable.
Also, could you accept your therapist being an influencer? Plus the answer to snooping bosses.
Let’s get into it.