Month: July 2011
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Gone Fishing
My my. I think I must be witnessing the effects of the first and third laws of psychological time because this year seems to have flown by. So I'm off to slow down time a bit. Dead Fish is taking a well-earned […]
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What If?
Johnny (ever the collector and curator of interesting points of view) points at a post from Tim Kastelle that draws an interesting point from Anything You Want, the book on entrepreneurship by CDBaby founder Derek Sivers. The book tells the story of […]
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Slowing Down Time
Seeing Noah's post prompted me to re-read Steven Johnson's rather lovely piece that talks about his reasons for moving from his long-time home city of New York, across to the West coast and San Francisco. This kind of change, believes Johnson, is […]
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Agile Planning (Redux)
The smart guys at LHBS in Vienna asked me to give a talk on Agile Planning earlier this week as part of their series of "Uncomfortable Talks" designed to promote some good, challenging thinking on the practice of communications and planning. It […]
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Post Of The Month – June 2011 – The Winner
After a strong showing from Bud Caddell's The Big Fail, this month's vote turned into a race between Martin Bailie's excellent Why 'How' Is As Important As 'What' and Jennifer Hohn's Adventures in Failure but in the end it was the latter […]
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Post Of The Month – June 2011 – The Vote
Thanks to all for some good nominations. So this month's vote is between: The Big Fail from Bud Caddell My Very Unofficial Cannes Lions 2011 Recap from Olivier Blanchard What Art Has Got To Do With It by Rishad Tobaccowala Why 'How' […]
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Agencies As Incubators
Does it make sense for an ad agency to launch an incubator for tech start-ups? You could (and many no doubt would) say that this was merely a distraction from the day job. An unnecessary aberration from what agencies are meant to […]
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Post Of The Month – June 2011 – Nominations
Time to open nominations for Post Of The Month, so please nominate the best posts that you've read and which were posted in the month of June in the comments below. As always, I've listed a few starters and once I have […]