The Future of Digital

Skive‘s Tom Ollerton on the Future of Digital. For the TLDR crowd here’s the summary.

1. Utility is key – it’s easier to be repeatedly useful than repeatedly funny;

2. Social media is about much more than Facebook and Twitter;

3. Innovation isn’t just about new technology; and

4. It’s all about stories

I agree with most of this. Indeed, I’ve blogged about several of Tom’s examples in the past.



  1. Justin on Wednesday 16, 2010

    I generally like all these ‘future of digital’ decks (even the 100+ slide ones!). They are getting increasingly same same though. However I have to say that slide 77 – the boast about maintaining army recruitment during a time of “bloody” conflict – was quite, er, well, cringeworthy and poorly written at best, disgusting at worst. People are dying, but at least our client’s marketing objectives were met. Hooray.

  2. Eartha on Wednesday 16, 2010

    I generally like all these ‘future of digital’ decks (even the 100+ slide ones!). They are getting increasingly same same though. However I have to say that slide 77 – the boast about maintaining army recruitment during a time of “bloody” conflict – was quite, er, well, cringeworthy and poorly written at best, disgusting at worst. People are dying, but at least our client’s marketing objectives were met. Hooray.
    +1