About Rich

  • Richard Millington is the founder of FeverBee Limited, an online community consultancy, and The Pillar Summit, an exclusive course in Professional Community Management. Richard's clients have included the United Nations, The Global Fund, Novartis, Oracle, OECD, BAE Systems, AMD and several youth & entertainment brands. Richard is also the the author of the Online Community Manifesto.

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Chris Norton

Richard, this is very amusing but also quite worrying.

Chris Norton

Richard, this is very amusing but also quite worrying.

Andy

A well illustrated point Nelsieboy :-)

Shel Holtz

You're absolutely right, of course. When Nabisco registered every domain they could think of for Oreo cookies, somebody came along and registered www.iloveoreos.com. But that doesn't mean Nabisco shouldn't have bothered to register www.oreos.com. You can't register everything, but you SHOULD grab the primary trademark names. It doesn't take long and can save grief later.

It's also worth noting that Twitter is going to give all the Exxon names that have been taken to Exxon...which means Nelson Mandela can have the account you registered turned over to him. But that's the grief I'm talking about. It would have been easier to just grab the account himself.

Stephen Davies

Personally, I think the great man has bigger fish to fry. :-)

Charlie Hoult

Richard
I got to your blog via Steve Waddington. I've got you on my RSS Reader - and have used your Mandela thought about Twitter in a post I've done for Brand Republic.

http://community.brandrepublic.com/blogs/brand_karate/default.aspx

Please excuse my cack-handed linkings on there as they've got new (duff) software for bloggers).

Keep it up! Good blogs

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