CP+B Get Volkswagen
So Crispin gets the Volkswagen account and has resigned the Mini account because of the conflict. I use Mini as an example of great online creative execution of a configurator with clients just because...
View ArticleLong Tail 101 – Brilliant
http://longtail.typepad.com/the_long_tail/2005/09/long_tail_101.html Excellent distillation of the Long Tail and required reading. The theory of the Long Tail is that our culture and economy is...
View ArticleWordsAndPicturesOnline – great
http://www.wordsandpicturesonline.com/ This is a blog/comic strip about a creative team at a big agency (based on real events, client names changed to protect the living and the account guy’s sanity)....
View Article“This (is) not the son of Passport”
Excellent post on Kim Cameron’s Identity Weblog, which reprints an article from InfoWorld with quotes from a conference where Kim discussed/presented on software whose “behavior reflects identity”. I...
View ArticleMini and Immersion – cool article about the nature of a pitch
Thanks to AdPulp for pointing out this nugget from Business Week (a magazine I rarely read) http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/06_06/b3970110.htm Getting Creative With Mad Ave To find the...
View ArticleGnomedex – Chris Messina and Tara Hunt
Chris Messina and Tara Hunt (founders of Citzen Agency) kicked off their discussion with a silent keynote presentation for the Gnomedex crowd. The slides were great (and can be found here) and really...
View ArticleGnomedex – Ethan
boundaries between fans and presentation/music How do fans interact how to give power back 2 spaces – stage and audience space – existed since greek times power of fan, power of audience participatory...
View ArticleGnomedex – Second Life Breakout
Awesome – beth from SL has been participating at gnomedex this weekend and today gave a group of us a short tour in second life. Discussed: Avatars Construction Land Cool spaces (art gallery, fan-built...
View ArticleSecond Life Rising –“We did MySpace about two years ago, but … I think it’s a...
Great article in AdAge about Second Life. http://adage.com/digital/article?article_id=110404 What’s special here is us participating in a new phase of the social-networking evolution,” said Mr....
View ArticleStories like this make it hard to convince clients to blog
So Jeff Jarvis of BuzzMachine (required reading as far as I am concerned) posts the following: Well, golly, look at this. I get a comment‘ on the post below from someone who says he’s working for Dell:...
View ArticleMicrosoft – Stop Making Fun of Us
Thanks to Scoble for finding this gem: http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=218493 I love Ad parodies, and this is a great ‘hack’ of the current MS vs. MAC ads running out there now. Now I am...
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My old shop rocks
So the guys from my old shop have developed another amazing microsite for Sony Vaio. Shot on green screen, probably using HD and a sick edit/motion graphics/Flash build. When I was working at iNDELIBLE...
View Articlecool – the leading (and first?) business magazine in Second Life!
http://www.slbusinessmag.com I am digging into Second Life more and more and found the link above today (thanks PSFK!). This team has put together a magazine for and about SL business. The topics are...
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I love C-Ville!
Found this while surfing at work today (yes, thanks to J O B, I will be working all weekends from now through early November) thanks to Adrants: Welcome to C-Ville – Where Choices Define You C-Ville is...
View ArticleDave wonders about people – I’m wondering about companies, governments,...
On Wednesday Dave Winer posted something interesting about Google and its search services. Something that’s missing in Google’s repertoire of information searching tools. It’s something between...
View ArticleGeneration Dobler
From a post on BoingBoing today is this little gem: Emotionally, I don’t understand why so many people get so upset at being marketed to, or at gleefully acknowledging the good that comes from crafting...
View ArticleWhat do you say?
When we were little kids, my little brother and I heard this all the time. When Mrs Kennedy (not that one, the one on 138th street in the Bronx) gave us an ice pop, when grandma gave us a quarter, when...
View ArticleDo Experts Matter?
Great post from Phill Baumann on experts, the value they may bring and Social Media experts in general. My favorite: For example, Social Media experts are everywhere. When they’re everywhere, they’re...
View ArticleBrands Brands Brands
Brands are important and valuable, but on the users’ terms. For a long time the human race thought the sun revolved around the world. Then we figured it out. I think brands and users are in a similar...
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Interview with John C. Havens
Had a great interview today with John C. Havens. on BlogTalkRadio.com. John and Shel Holtz recently released their new book Tactical Transparency: How Leaders Can Leverage Social Media to Maximize...
View ArticleGhost Blogging and Authenticity
David Mullen nails it with his post on “Save the Ghosts for Halloween” Think this is a great post and should be required reading for companies that want to “use” social media. It may seem like...
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The 50/50 Rule, Link Love & Reciprocity
The 50/50 Rule is something I started sharing with clients a while back. It’s nothing new or earth-shattering and TONS of individuals and companies are doing it EVERY SINGLE DAY. The idea is simple –...
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It’s there because it works…
Chris Brogan writes (in a great post you need to read here): How much does one of those opportunities cost? It can’t be cheap to put up a billboard in an airport, right? That same amount would fund a...
View ArticleCommunity Community Community
(the title of the post should be said outloud like Jan on the Brady Bunch yelling “Marsha Marsha Marsha!”) I think Micah’s post on the Lie About Community hits the mark pretty well. “Community”, like...
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