Year: 2008
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Think Tank – November 2008 – The Vote
OK. Some great nominations for the best posts from the last month, all of them worth a read. So now time to vote for your favourite one out of our short-list. Thanks to Charles, Willem, Le'Nise, Graeme and Niko for the nominations. Graeme and Willem actually nominated one of my posts (thanks guys – very…
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‘Thinking Outside The Box’
Cripes. According to a survey by YouGov (commissioned by the Hotel group Ramada Encore of all people) these are the most hated 'business-speak' phrases in the UK. And I've just realised I've used at least four of them in the past week. What I need is some pro-active, out-of-the-box 360 blue-sky thinking if I'm going…
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Think Tank Nominations – November 2008
It's Post of The Month time again. November's nominations are officially open – so think about the best posts you've read over the last month and please nominate them by leaving a comment below with a link. This is about recognising good thinking and writing so please help spread the word to encourage more nominations.…
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Entitlement
Scott Karp has written a great post about some assumptions common to the newspaper industry (like there has to be a way to reverse the declines, make the same profits, how they can't die because then journalism will die). What's wrong, he says, is the sense of entitlement. Entitlement to make money. Nobody has the…
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Bruce Lee Plays Ping Pong
Stan and I have been twittering already about this this morning (yes, BrandDNA is on twitter at last!) but I'm posting it too because I love it. http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=2297886&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1Nokia N96 – Bruce Lee Ping Pong from Ramalho Blog on Vimeo.
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One Careful Owner
3rd place winner in the 2008 15 Second Film Festival: http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=1319202&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1One Careful Owner from 15 Second Film Festival on Vimeo.
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Touching Strangers
Photographer Richard Renaldi spends a year asking total strangers to touch, and then takes their picture. Some appear like they've known each other for years, some look like they're about to die with discomfort. All rather, well, touching.
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The Daily Aphorism
Image courtesy Enjoying this little campaign from The School of Life (which in itself is a peach of an idea) which I signed up for recently after seeing it over at Mark's place. A one month prescription of a "daily dose of thought", delivered to your inbox. Thirty aphorisms to "discuss, dispute or distribute", or…
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A Message For Obama
It's certainly interesting times for newspapers. Seth Godin has just bemoaned the opportunities missed by the NY Times. Meanwhile Blogs, Twitter and Flickr are stealing the immediacy crown and doing it with added humanity as amply illustrated by the Mumbai coverage. But there's still some good ideas coming out of them. Here's an example I…
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Sacrificing The Sacred Cows
Giles makes the point that in these tough times companies have two choices – to innovate their way out of recession, or to retrench their way through it. He's right of-course, and I know which way I'd rather go. It almost goes without saying that innovation can not only get you through a recession, it…