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Brendan Cooper is a digital and social media strategist who helps clients win business, win awards and talk to people through digital and social media strategy. He has been helping people to communicate, online and offline, for over fifteen years.

New Delicious – sweet eye candy but a bitter aftertaste

by on September 27, 2011 in socialbookmarking, socialmusic

As if by magic, Delicious has relaunched. I had that sinking feeling when I powered up my laptop this morning and noticed that the Delicious add-on that I use to navigate the web wasn’t loading properly. It didn’t take long to figure out that there are some fairly radical changes going on. Superficially it looks [...]

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Brendan Cooper is a digital and social media strategist who helps clients win business, win awards and talk to people through digital and social media strategy. He has been helping people to communicate, online and offline, for over fifteen years.

The Universal Process™. Or: the Gartner Hype Cycle of Life

by on November 10, 2010 in copywriting, disciplines, musictechnology, personal, socialmedia, socialmusic, socialnetworks, strategy, stuff

Life. Work. Birth. Death. And everything in between. Read on. I wrote some time ago about the process of writing. Unless I’m writing for myself – that is, when I had time for ‘recreational writing’, or even blogging for that matter – I tend to procrastinate. I sit in front of the monitor surrounded by [...]

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Once upon a time…

by on September 30, 2009 in blogging, computing, copywriting, disciplines, personal, RSS, socialmedia, socialmusic, stuff, technology

… I was a copywriter. Then I became a social media planner. Then I became a digital PR senior account manager. Then I was a social media strategist. Then I decided to jack it all in and become a copywriter again. Now, I’m finding I’m sort of all of those at the same time. Confusing, [...]

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Music to my ears (or rather, ear, since one of them’s deaf)

by on July 14, 2009 in musictechnology, socialmedia, socialmusic, technology

Isn’t it strange how things come around? About two days ago, after moving house (again – permanently, this time) I put my home studio back together again. It’s nothing to shout about, just a keyboard, mic and acoustic guitars plugged into a laptop, but I can honestly say I’m at my happiest sitting on the [...]

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Spotify – another business model on the hoof?

by on February 24, 2009 in marketing, musictechnology, socialmusic, technology

I was very interested to read the recent Guardian coverage of the music streaming service Spotify, especially having been part of the beta programme and written about Spotify quite a while ago and a couple of times since. My initial impressions were very positive. I liked the clean interface and the incredibly quick response times. [...]

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Audio here, there, but not quite everywhere

by on October 21, 2008 in computing, musictechnology, socialmusic, socialnetworks, technology

I’m a big fan of online streaming audio. I loved Pandora before it became US-only. I quite like Last.FM. Musicovery has a lovely approach in its interface and mood-based approach. Now – at last – we have Spotify, and another great utility I came across this week, Simplify Media. I’ve covered Spotify before. I saw [...]

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