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Post of the Month – November 2014 – The winner
Quite a close vote this month but in the end it was James Caig's post on What Makes a Strategist that won. So well done to James. You are entered into the hall of fame. Don't forget to bookmark your good reads for next month's vote and thanks to everyone who took part.
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This Week’s Favourite Fraggl Links
This week we have put our next generation Fraggl algorithm and email live to our pioneers test group. If you're a Fraggl pioneer, please let us have your feedback. In the meantime, here's my favourite links, curated by Fraggl: A good deck here from Clay Parker Jones on why organisations are broken, and how to fix them Some great…
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Projects
It’s good to always have several obsessions and projects on the go. Here are a few of mine: Fraggl Fraggl is the brand new Twitter curation app built by me, and the smart folk at AdaptiveLab. It sets out to curate the ten best links from strategy and advertising from the past 24 hours and deliver a set…
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This Week’s Favourite Fraggl Links
Briefly from Bassett & Partners on Vimeo. Here are my favourite links of the past week, as curated by Fraggl: "Every project starts with a brief. But very few projects end up with exceptional results. Why?" Briefly (above) is a wonderful short film by Tom Bassett who interviewed some of the worlds most consistently exceptional creative talents, including Frank…
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Itch, Pitch or Ditch
I do a fair amount of client workshops and one of the things which I always think is critical in extending out the value of a team spending time together thinking about what they do, how they could do stuff better and generating ideas is having as tangible a link as possible to achieving actionable…
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Everybody has a Plan, Until They Get Punched in the Face
The memorable line that forms the title to this post came from Mike Tyson. He's quoted in Scott D Antony's Little Black Book of Innovation which I'm reading at the moment. The book is full of such gems so I'm sure I'll be lifting more from it but Tyson is quoted in the context of…
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This Week’s Favourite Fraggl Links
Here's my favourites from this week, curated by Fraggl: The Sell! Sell! Blog had a great take on if the famous Volkswagen 'Lemon' ad was written today (above) A useful deck from Big Spaceship on dealing with Twitter cards A controversial piece with some good points from John Winsor, with five reasons why brands are cutting out agencies A good take from Genevieve Bell (Intel's…
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This Week’s Favourite Fraggl Links
Here are my favourite links from this week, curated by Fraggl: More slow-mo brilliance from Adam Magyar, this time in Alexanderplatz. Love this project. A provocative take on the evolution of twitter from conversation to broadcast A good post from Greg Satell on the impact of ‘mass personalisation’ A summary of some significant tech trends in the Accenture Technology Vision 2014 A…
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How Reddit Has Changed Over Time
I came across this post (posted in March last year) in which Michigan State University PhD student Randy Olson analysed the posts that users submitted to Reddit between its inception in 2005 up to November 2012 in order to retrace the evolution of the community. Olson took a snapshot view of the most active subreddits, ranked by number of posts…
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Systems Trump Goals
Shane Parrish has an interesting point in his review of (the creator of Dilbert) Scott Adams' book How To Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big about systems and goals, which Adams defines as: "If you do something every day, it’s a system. If you’re waiting to achieve it someday in the future, it’s a goal."…