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 Summer break for a couple of weeks but will be back before you…
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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 how a voice coach that Sivers had when he was in a band…
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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 intrinsically good in itself because the changed context helps you see your old…
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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 was helpful in bringing together a bunch of disparate thoughts I've long had…
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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 that won through. So well done Jennifer – you get the props of…
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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' Is As Important As 'What' by Martin Bailie Adventures in Failure by Jennifer…
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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 be doing. Personally, I think it makes a bunch of sense. Here's why.…
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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 a good selection I'll stick them all up for a vote. OK, my…