Goodbye Bauer Media - hello Brando Digital

I'm delighted to say I start a new job on Monday October 27. I'm leaving my role at Bauer Media (formerly Emap Consumer Media) to join the world's largest full service Social Media agency network: Brando Digital.

Brando Digital is a start-up with truly global reach, based in Camden, London.

I'm going to be Director of Social Media and work with a team of brilliant people to take companies, brands and organisations on their journey through and to the networked world.

I believe that listening to, learning from and participating in the networked world are the keys to understanding it, benefiting from it and becoming a humanised part of it - and so does Brando Digital.

You'll be able to learn more about Brando Digital on our website (Brando-Digital.com) when it goes live. It's a holding page at present - that's how new we are. Brando Digital is part of Brando World - of which more, here.

One of the big reason's I'm joining is the enlightened attitude of the organisation: They've been happy to recruit me on a four-days-a-week basis.
My fifth day (in a kind of self-funding google 20%-rule-model) can be used to take me outside the silo - doing my own consultancy work: from advice and analysis to workshops, speaking and conference organising. More about that will be published at http://fasterfutureconsulting.com when that url goes live in the next few days.

In the meantime, if you want to contact me about either working with the most faster-future-thinking, most globally networked* full-service social media agency there is (that's Brando Digital folks!) or about FasterFuture Consulting, drop me a line at: davidpcushman AT gmail DOT com

*Brando Digital has community and blogger outreach capabilities in EMEA, North America, Central and Latin America, Asia and Oceania; across English, Spanish (Catalan/Basque), Italian, French, German, Portuguese, Chinese (Cantonese), Russian and Arabic languages.

Mashing the music (again). Memory of a Free Festival

Regulars at fasterfuture may recall this (Rewritten for the networked world) and the rewrites of lyrics it inspired.

Here's another, from the brilliant mind of Ivan Pope. (good to see Chris Saad joining the JS-Kit party, btw, via Ivan. Congrats all round on the series B funding too, guys.)

David Bowie wrote Memory of a Free Festival after playing at one (in Beckenham of all places, I believe, way back when).

Ivan Pope wrote this after FOWA in London.

Memory of a Future of Web Apps (MOFOWA)

The Children of the bubble's end

Gathered in the conference

We showed our decks and felt the London web

Resting on our laptops

It was God's code

It was ragged and naive

It was Heaven

Code, We coded the very soul

Of building each and every app

We claimed the very source of joy ran through

It didn't, but it seemed that way

We kissed a lot of people that day

Oh, to capture just one drop of all the Twitter that swept that afternoon

To paint that love

upon a #FFFFFF balloon

And fly it from

the topest top of all the tops

That man has pushed beyond the web

Funding must be something

just the same

We scanned the skies with rainbow eyes and saw startups of every shape and size

We talked with tall VCs passing through

And Scoble tried to climb aboard but Arrington shook his head

And away they soared

Climbing through

the wifi vibrant cloud

Someone passed some schwag among the crowd

And we walked back to the office, unchained

"The Funding Machine is Coming Down, and We're Gonna Have a Party

The Funding Machine is Coming Down, and We're Gonna Have a Party

The Funding Machine is Coming Down, and We're Gonna Have a Party

The Funding Machine is Coming Down, and We're Gonna Have a Party

The Funding Machine is Coming Down, and We're Gonna Have a Party."