Month: July 2017
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The Red Queen’s Trap
In Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass the Red Queen's race sees Alice and the Queen running fast yet standing still. Alice decries the pointlessness of running without getting anywhere. In our country, she says, you run to get somewhere. "Now, here, you see," says the Queen, "it takes all the running you can do, to keep…
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The Purpose of Life
'Ironically enough, when you make peace with the fact that the purpose of life is not happiness, but rather experience and growth, happiness comes as a natural byproduct. When you are not seeking it as the objective, it will find its way to you' I can't find the original source of this quote that Tom…
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Post of the Month – June 2017 – The Winner
A strong showing from a few of the shortlisted posts this month. Happy to say though that the winner of this month's vote for Post of the Month is Glyn Britton with his post on Designing Democratic Brands. Well done Glyn – you join the hall of fame. My thanks to everyone who took part.
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Post of the Month – June 2017 – The Vote
Thanks for the nominations. Shorter shortlist this month (sticking the vote up sooner than I usually do due to holiday) but that's no bad thing. So our vote is between: Designing Democratic Brands by Glyn Britton Do It The Hard Way: Channeling Your Inner Bette Davis by Jim Carroll What a digital organisational looks like by Janet Hughes…
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Post of the Month – June 2017 – Nominations
Crikey. It's time already to open up nominations again for the next Post of the Month. So if there are any posts that you've read over the past month that you thought were particularly good, do nominate them in the comments or direct. As always I've got a short starting list below, but will add…
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Can Blockchain Save Digital Advertising?
In all the noise that came out of the recent Cannes festival, there seemed to be strangely little that focused on the problems inherent in the current digital advertising marketplace. Problems that were highlighted in a very articulate way a few months ago by P & G’s Marc Pritchard – namely a murky media supply chain…