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Personal and professional on Twitter. A marriage made in heaven or hell?
What does it mean if you include your employer’s brand in your Twitter name? Whoa! Let’s back up and rephrase that highly assumptive opening sentence. What does it mean if you include your employer’s...
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This Lancashireman is struggling to compete with the extreme, and extremely competitive, privations described by the four Yorkshiremen. Working a twelve hour overnight shift in the (now defunct)...
View ArticleWhere I was on 9/11.
I can remember exactly where I was as the 9/11 atrocity unfolded. I was in Edinburgh then Brussels. The Brussels trip was for a pan-European advertising pitch on 10/11. As Gerry (creative director),...
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A tale of three long tails.
Three blog posts continually catch my eye for the level of ongoing traffic they pull into this blog via search engines. What Spongebob Squarepants can teach us about modern ideas and capturing the...
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Time lapse photography with Instalapse, Hipstacase and Gorillapod.
Actually make that time lapse photography with Instalapse, Hipstacase, Gorillapod, a large Velux window, a 30m extension cable and several volumes of the 1955 edition Chambers’s Encyclopedia....
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Google Ngram Viewer – The Beatles weren’t more popular than Jesus, but...
Kevin Kelly’s post on the Technium blog has just taken over my Friday evening. It includes a link to the Google Ngram viewer. The what? The Google/University Consortium has digitised over 15 million...
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Playing to our strengths – thoughts on “agency” prompted by Google...
Thanks to Neil Perkin for curating another highly topical, highly relevant, highly provocative Firestarters event on behalf of Google. And thanks to Mel Exon, Martin Bailie and James Caig for providing...
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Sandstorm’s elegant business cards. How much versatility, utility and...
My dad used to work for the Fibreglass division of Pilkington. His business cards were made out of glass fibre. They were well cool. My mate Mark runs Sandstorm Kenya. His business cards are made out...
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Satirising the death of Steve Jobs.
This tweet appeared amidst a Tweetdeck sea of grief and eulogies, prompted by the death of Steve Jobs. I caught my breath a little. And I was caught in two minds. On the one hand it was classic,...
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Tim Fitzhigham on making adventurous ideas happen.
It's right because it's... People respond well to original, adventurous, slightly mad ideas. This applies equally to marketing communications and to fundraising events. As Tim Fitzhigham said during...
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