Category: media
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Post Of The Month – March 2014 – The Vote
Thanks for the nominations. So our vote this month is between: This One’s For Me by Frank Chimero Getting Real (Time) by Patricia McDonald Prediction is the 5th Stage of Technology from Ben Kunz Of Hedgehogs and Foxes by Martin Weigel The Good Master from John Willshire Writers Write and Innovators Innovate by Tim Kastelle Advertising’s Peculiar Relationship With Technology by…
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Post Of The Month – March 2014 – Nominations
It's time to open up nominations for Post Of The Month, so if you've read a great post over the past month (posted in March) do nominate it in the comments (or directly). As always, I have a strarting list of my own favourites – hard to choose this month so I've ended up with…
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This Week’s Favourite Fraggl Links
Here's my favourites from this week, curated by Fraggl: "If you win the rat race, you're still a rat". An extraordinary view on work, joy, and how to live rather than exist from Anna Quindlen, taken from a commencement address (above) never given but widely circaulated Lovely: What to do if you’re falling out of love with New York An exceptional post from Martin Wiegel…
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Post Of The Month – February 2014 – The Winner
Quite an evenly split battle for a good while in this month's vote but it was Graeme Wood's excellent Planning For Networks deck that won through in the end. So well done to Graeme, who gets the props of his peers and joins the illustrious hall of fame. And my thanks to everyone for taking…
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Post Of The Month – February 2014 – The Vote
Thanks for the nominations. So our vote is between: Creativity, collaboration, and the power of silence, from Herbie Hancock by Edward Boches Brand Building in a Digital Age by Martin Weigel Planning For Networks by Graeme Wood 5 Reasons Why Brands are Cutting Out Agencies from John Winsor Why Ignorance is Bloody Beautiful Bliss by Rob Campbell What McKinsey…
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On Content Marketing
There's a good (albeit somewhat one-sided) debate over on Scamp's blog about Content Marketing. I have some sympathy with the view that, as Scamp says, 'to be done well, content requires way more thought and investment than it's currently getting'. There is, of-course, a lot of rubbish content out there. Just as there is plenty…
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Post Of The Month – February 2014 – Nominations
Time to open up for nominations for Post of the Month. As usual I've listed a few of my own favourites below, but please do add to these (in the comments or direct) with any posts that you thought were great, and that were posted in the month of February. I'll put up the extended…
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Tom Whitwell on Pricing Strategy
A couple of weeks back I went to the second of the Harnessing Disruption events put on by the folk at AdaptiveLab (I spoke at the first one a while back). The events are nicely informal gatherings focused on the theme of disruption in media. One of my favourite short talks from this one was…
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This Week’s Favourite Fraggl Links
Here's my favourite links from this week, curated by Fraggl: What a great idea. Sammy Screamer (above) – a cute little motion sensor controlled by your phone with lots of applications I liked this talk from Tracey Follows at the APG's Noisy thinking event on 'Planning 3.0 – Planning without a roadmap' A great feature on the work of Genevieve…
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This Week’s Favourite Fraggl Links
Here's my favourites from this week, curated by Fraggl: A great post from Edward Boches on lessons in creativity and collaboration from Herbie Hancock (above) In HBR - the first strategic question every business must ask “I know a lot of people have very strong and definite plans that they’ve worked out on all kinds of things, but we’re subject to…