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Post Of The Month – May 2013 – The Vote
Thanks for the nominations. Our vote this month is between: The Art, Poetry & Music of Data Viz from Tom Uglow Restructing Britain by Louise Downe Can Agencies Innovate? from Antony Mayfield The Lean Analytics Cycle by Avinash Kaushik and Alistair Croll Introducing the Modern Marketing Manifesto from Ashley Friedlein On Expectation Of Privacy by Jonathan Zdziarski And you can…
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Post Of The Month – March 2013 – Nominations
Back after a short break and already it's time to ask for nominations for Post Of The Month for March. So if there are any great posts that you read and that were posted in that month, please do nominate them in the comments below. As usual I have a starting list below. I'm cheating…
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Redefining The Way We Think About Charity
A truly remarkable new TED talk from Dan Pallotta talking about how the way in which we view charities and charity giving is so fundamentally flawed and wholly limiting. Every now and then you hear a point of view that genuinely makes you reconsider the entire way in which you look at something. It doesn't…
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Noticing, Creating and Being Young
Seth Godin, with a challenging viewpoint on raising 'free-range kids', taken from the last four minutes of this great podcast interview, hosted by Krista Tippett, and themed around the art of noticing, and then creating: "As parents, we're often pushed to make this choice…keep your kids out of the connection world, isolate them, and make sure…
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Post Of The Month – January 2013 – The Winner
Another close run thing in this months vote. Tim Dunn's post was an early leader but in the end it was Martin Weigel's excellent post demolishing brand 'onions' (and other brand shapes) that sneaked the win. So well done Martin. You get the props of your blogging peers and are entered into the Hall of…
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Post Of The Month – January 2013 – The Vote
Thanks everyone for the nominations. Our vote this month is between: Brand Onions: The Crying Game by Martin Weigel Maybe It’s Our Expectations That Need To Change, Not Ad Agencies from Tim Dunn A Creative Legends Lessons For Planners by Sarah Carter What If Ad Agencies and Design Studios Stopped Fighting & Got Together? from Glyn Britton Vision and…
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How Do You Use Twitter Favourites?
I have a question. SAI recently featured the graph above in their 'Chart Of The Day' feature showing the way in which favouriting of Tweets has taken off since interactions were included in the '@' section and incorporated under the 'Discover' tab. Since this had made favouriting more of a public thing, they suggest that…
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The Biggest Issue In Content Marketing
Suddenly everyone is talking about Content Marketing and perhaps the chart above explains why. When I gave my recent talk to the Content Marketing Association (whose members have been doing this sort of thing in one form or another for many years) I made the point right up front that whilst the vast majority of…
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Fish Food in 2013
Around two and a half years ago (is it really that long?) I started compiling and sending out a weekly curation of digital goodness – the best links/reads/quotes/things that I've come across on the interwebs over the past week. In truth, it started out as something of an experiment but since that first email the list…
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Post Of The Month – December 2012 – The Winner
Well done to Mel Exon whose excellent Advertising Is Dead, Long Live Advertising series (Parts One, Two, Three and Four) fought off some stiff competition in the form of Matt Steel's post on The Abundance Of Slowness and in particular Rob Campbell's excellent feedback post to the entries for the Account Planning School of the Web. So well done Mel – you…