Category: inspiration
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Post of the Month – December 2014 – Nominations
It's time to nominate your favourite posts from December 2014 (if you can think back that far) for the Post of the Month vote. I have a couple of nominations already but please do add to them and once I have a good list I'll stick them up for a vote. As usual, I have…
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I’m Writing a Book
I'm not big on New Years resolutions but I thought it a fitting time to put something out there by way of a personal ambition for the coming year. I'm going to write a book. It has been a long held aspiration of mine to do this but the reality of running my own business…
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This Week’s Favourite Fraggl Links
Here are my favourite links curated this week by Fraggl: Some starkly alarming stats on digital display and bot fraud from an ANA report that found that up to 50% of publisher traffic is bot activity, 11% of online ad views and 23% of video ads are from automated cumputer programmes. Google also revealed that around 56% of digital ads…
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Google Firestarters NYC – The New Operating System for Agencies
Last Wednesday Ben Malbon and I hosted the first ever Google Firestarters in the US. We took as our theme ‘The New Operating System for Agencies’, a subject that had elicited much debate when we ran it in the UK and one that Mel Exon (who spoke at that event) called at the time ‘a hairy,…
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This Week’s Favourite Fraggl Links
Wanderers – a short film by Erik Wernquist from Erik Wernquist on Vimeo. Here are my favourite links curated this week by Fraggl: "Seven years into the smartphone world, it seems like it’s time to change the questions". A lengthy, good post from one of the smartest analysts on mobile Ben Evans. Also worth checking out this challenging post on disruption,…
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This Week’s Favourite Fraggl Links
THE GAP by Ira Glass from Daniel Sax on Vimeo. This week our pioneers test group have been getting our newly revamped Fraggl 2.0 emails with changes made to the algorithm, design and formatting (more on that soon). We've had lots of positive feedback on it (thank you pioneer group) so with a few tweaks we'll…
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Post of the Month – October 2014 – The Winner
Happy to announce that the winner of this month's vote for Post of the Month, despite a strong showing by Heidi Hackemer's thoughts on Planning's Lost Generation, is Antony Mayfield's inspiring post on Why Values are Valuable. Well done Antony, you are entered into the hall of fame and get the props of your peers.…
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Google Firestarters 14 – Big Data, or Big Mistake?
For the next Google Firestarters we are combining forces with Google’s celebrated series of events on the Future of Data to tackle a subject that I've been wanting to take on for a good while. So called ‘Big data’ has almost become the very epitome of marketing hype - a phenomenon that has become an obsession for many…
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The Idea Index
I've just returned from couple of weeks break on which I read a couple of great books (more on that to come) but kind of wish I'd come across this great little life-hack before I went. In this Tim Ferris interview with the prolific Maria Popova on the theme of writing, workflow and workarounds, Maria explains…