Category: media
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Post Of The Month – January 2012 – The Vote
Thanks all for the nominations. So our vote this month is between: Web Second, Mobile First by Mark Suster Crimes Against Social from Richard Huntingdon The Flipside Of A Big Audience by Gina Trapani Mobilityness And The New Marketing from Thom Kennon Culture Eats Strategy For Lunch by Shawn Parr Interview With John V Willshire Part One, and Part…
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Post Of The Month – January 2012 – Nominations
It's time again to open up nominations for Post Of The Month for the month of January. So do please nominate your favourite posts that were posted in that month, in the comments below. As usual, I've listed a few of my own favourites as a starter, and I've had one nomination already (thanks Rick) which…
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Google Firestarters 4: Entrepreneurship
"Entrepreneurship is the pursuit of opportunity without regard to resources currently controlled."Howard Stevenson, Harvard Business School You'll know by now that I curate a series of events for Google designed to facilitate different thinking and debate around some of the more interesting issues facing planners today, and I'm delighted to say that our first event of 2012…
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Media = Maths + Magic
Before Christmas, in an exceptionally insightful post on Ad Age, Adam Cahill suggested that it was time to change the orientation of media agencies and departments to be more reflective of what people do and toward what he called the math and the magic (hence the borrowed title to this post) of media. The maths bit…
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Post Of The Month – December 2011 – The Winner
Quite a battle again in the vote this month but in the end the winner was Tom Ewing's excellent post on music, digital streams and nanoculture: Take Me To The River. So well done to Tom – as always, he gets not only the props of his blogging peers but is also entered into the hall of…
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Post Of The Month – December 2011 – The Vote
Thanks everyone for your nominations. Our shortlist and vote this month is between: Take Me To The River by Tom Ewing The Importance of Being Awesome by Faris Yakob The Rocket Sled Goes Too Fast from Ernie Schenck Dear Men, Please Listen, Love Man from Mark Sorrell Social Media, The Ego, And The Self by Aaron Balick Something Disintegrates…
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Google Firestarters 2012
As you'll know by now I've worked with Google this year to curate a series of events designed to facilitate different thinking and debate around some of the more challenging issues facing planners and the practice of planning. The three Firestarters events we've run have focused on some truly provocative subjects, seen some truly excelllent speakers,…