Category: inspiration
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Disrupting Wall Street
I've been in Austin at SXSWi for the past few days putting on our first Google Firestarters here (more on that soon) and so have been attending some of the sessions whilst I'm here. Someone said to me before I came out that it was better to go to the smaller, off-topic (i.e. non branding/marketing/content)…
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Google Firestarters 15: How To Think Differently About Advertising
Our next London Google Firestarters event will be happening on March 23rd at 6pm in Google HQ London and I'm delighted to say that we have the legendary Paul Feldwick (above) speaking about his brand new book 'The Anatomy of Humbug: How To Think Differently About Advertising'. Paul's book is quite possibly the most important book on advertising…
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Google Firestarters Comes to Austin
I’m delighted to announce that Google Firestarters is coming to Austin. Firestarters has always been about combining the most compelling speakers with provocative debate around the most interesting industry issues amongst the most inquisitive and restless minds in strategy and planning. So it’s fitting that we’ll be taking that debate to the most well known…
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This Week’s Favourite Fraggl Links
Here are my favourite links from this week curated by Fraggl: FastCompany's annual look at the world's most innovative companies is as good as ever. I particularly liked the design, advertising and marketing, and the Africa lists A great piece on how the Nathan Barley nightmare came true A good (and free) ebook on Product Management from Intercom The APG…
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Building a Meaningful Career
If I'm honest I get rather impatient with over-simplistic platitudes suggesting that the secret to having a meaningful career is simply to follow your dream. On the surface, and for some of us, this no doubt makes complete sense. If you have a dream then of-course you should do everything you can to find…
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Getting Things Done
I loved some of the quotes that Austin Kleon pulled out from his reading of David Allen's classic Getting Things Done. I hadn't read Allen's book but judging by some of the gems that Kleon picked out it looks like it could well be worth it. These included the importance of clearing your mind of unnecessary burden:…
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This Week’s Favourite Fraggl Links
Here are my favourite links from this week curated by Fraggl: Really like the look of Flow (above) – a programmable, wireless controller for computers and other connected devices that has raised over $270K on Indiegogo The guys at (friends of ODF) Storythings are launching a podcast which should be excellent. In the run up, they've put out a call for…
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This Week’s Favourite Fraggl Links
Digital, Social & Mobile in 2015 from We Are Social Singapore Here are my favourite links from this week curated by Fraggl: Very useful – just about every digital stat you could want in one deck And this is interesting – Tumblr launching an in-house creative lab crowdsourcing from their 420m users A thought-provoking post from Simon Veksner on overvaluing extroverts and…
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This Week’s Favourite Fraggl Links
Here are my favourite links from this week curated by Fraggl: I loved this idea – using Google Streetview to safely treat Alzheimers. Check out the video An excellent post from Dave Trott on how advertising agencies are becoming the 'gift wrapping department' A good summation from Mike Arauz at Undercurrent of common characteristics across their list of the most responsive organisations of 2014…
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Firestarters NYC – Creativity in a Constrained World
Really pleased to say that hot on the heels of our first ever Google Firestarters in New York there will be a second event on 22nd January at 5.30pm, Google HQ NYC. This one will be taking 'Creativity in a Constrained World' as its theme, focusing on some of the topics explored on Adam Morgan's…