Personal Data

Newsletter: data disrupting marketing
Newsletter: data disrupting marketing 1024 689 Ryan Garner

Last Friday we launched a newsletter covering disruption and innovation in the data economy. Here is our first issue. We probably won’t publish each newsletter as a blog post this is…

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Three simple insights, one huge impact.
Three simple insights, one huge impact. 640 353 StJohn Deakins

At citizenme, our purpose is to make the Internet work for the people who use it. To put us in control of our own personal data and, importantly, to get…

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A small data approach to big insights (IIeX Talk)
A small data approach to big insights (IIeX Talk) 150 150 StJohn Deakins

The video is a talk given by our Director of Insights, Ryan Garner, at the Insight Innovation Exchange (IIeX) in Amsterdam recently. Here is his slide deck: Inside out insights: a…

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A vision for Market Research in an Information Age
A vision for Market Research in an Information Age 1024 565 Ryan Garner

This is the second part an adapted version of my talk at the Greenbook Insights and Innovation Exchange (IIeX) event in Amsterdam. In my previous post I talked about the…

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Why the data economy needs to be centred around people not products
Why the data economy needs to be centred around people not products 1024 565 Ryan Garner

We are currently living through a major tectonic shift; from an old economy to a new economy. It’s on the scale of the transition from an agrarian based economy to…

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Let’s learn the rules of the digital road before talking about a web Magna Carta
Let’s learn the rules of the digital road before talking about a web Magna Carta 1024 565 Neil Lawrence

My latest post for The Guardian: Technology is moving so fast we’re only beginning to understand how it will change society. It’s too early to distill our thinking to an…

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Your digital identity: picture perfect or a hot mess?
Your digital identity: picture perfect or a hot mess? 1024 566 StJohn Deakins

Recently described as, “a massive spaghetti-ball mess,” the doomed MySpace serves as a cautionary tale to Internet startups and monolithic social media players alike. But are we ordinary citizens facing…

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Daily Telegraph Interview CitizenMe
Daily Telegraph Interview CitizenMe 1024 566 Greer Hahn

CitizenMe was in the Daily Telegraph on Friday, an excerpt is below and the full article is here. Thanks to Rebecca Burn-Callander for the interview and asking such great questions. On June 9, serial entrepreneur…

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Your CitizenMe invitation is coming soon!
Your CitizenMe invitation is coming soon! 1024 565 StJohn Deakins

Exciting news! CitizenMe will be in pre-launch mode on the Apple App Store at the end of this month – access will be via invitation only. If you’ve signed up as…

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Rewarding digital citizens for their personal data – time for a change!
Rewarding digital citizens for their personal data – time for a change! 900 497 StJohn Deakins

For decades businesses have used consumers’ personal data from membership cards to push special offers and discounts. It has become a fundamental part of consumer life. This culture of reward…

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