Year: 2019
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Post of the Month – February 2019 – The Vote
Thanks for the nominations. So our vote is between: Brands are the campfire of the company by Jan Gooding Oh God it’s raining newsletters by Craig Mod The D2C Playbook by Shane O’Leary When Work Tries to Destroy You by Rob Campbell Research Questions are not Interview Questions by Erika Hall Rethinking How Technology Uses Our Personal Data…
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Post of the Month – February 2019 – Nominations
It's time again to open nominations for Post of the Month (crikey – already?) so as usual I've selected a short starting list below but ask you to nominate your own favourite reads from the past month to add to these and once I have a good list I'll put them all up for the…
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I’m Writing Another Book
It's been almost two years since my first book came out. Writing that book was something of a cathartic exercise for me, having worked for many years to help companies of all types become more native to the digital empowered world in the way that they think and operate. At the time there was plenty…
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Post of the Month – January 2019 – The Winner
Despite being nominated several times Rory Sutherland has never actually won Post of the Month but happy to say that his post on advertising efficiency and effectiveness has won through in this month's vote. So well done Rory, you join the hall of fame. My thanks to everyone that took part. Don't forget that nominations…
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Post of the Month – January 2019 – The Vote
Thanks for the nominations all. So our vote this month is between: I’ve cried on a few runs lately by Heidi Hackemer Advertising is in crisis, but it’s not because it doesn’t work from Rory Sutherland The Public Media Stack (part two is here) by Matt Locke Katie Lee’s Top Tips for Surviving Redundancy by Katie Lee Context is…
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Post of the Month – January 2019 – Nominations
It's (already?) time to open nominations for the next Post of the Month vote. As usual I've written a starting list below but please do add to these with your own nominations of favourite reads from the past month. You can nominate by leaving the link in the comments or drop me a note directly.…
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Bullshit Jobs
'Huge swathes of people, in Europe and North America in particular, spend their entire working lives performing tasks they secretly believe do not really need to be performed. The moral and spiritual damage that comes from this situation is profound. It is a scar across our collective soul. Yet virtually no one talks about it.'…
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Post of the Month – December 2018 – The Winner
I'm a little late with this due to a heavy work schedule (sorry) but I can formally announce that the winner of Post of the Month is Gareth Price's post on the personalisation problem. We had some good voting around Noah Brier's excellent thinking around Marketing and the Tension Between Contrarianism and Tradition but in…
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Post of the Month – December 2018 – Nominations
If you can think back as far as 2018 it's time to open nominations for Post of the Month. So please do look back at your bookmarks and nominate any good posts that you read and that you think are worthy of being in the vote. As usual I have a short starting list below…