Posted in Advertising, General on Oct 23rd, 2008 No Comments »
My apologies - I’m not American, so I’m posting on a subject I only have interest in rather than true knowledge of… but I’m finding the election fascinating - and some of the advertising around it is fascinating too… hence my interest in this… click here (btw, this isn’t a link to follow if you’re [...]
Posted in Digital, General on Oct 23rd, 2008 1 Comment »
This is interesting… I got this email a bit ago…
MotiveQuest is launching a new website, Brand Advocacy ‘08 www.brandadvocacy08.com We will use our Online Promoter Score to predict the outcome of the 2008 USA presidential election.
David, our CEO is so convinced of this metric that if we are wrong, and fail to correctly predict [...]
Posted in Advertising, Digital, General on Jan 22nd, 2008 2 Comments »
Posted in General on Jan 21st, 2008 1 Comment »
Here’s a nice little idea - not a new one, admittedly, but still it’s worth remembering once in a while.
Brought to my attention by this little article in Ad Age - where Andy Berndt explains what he’s planning with the in-house brand agency at Google.
Reminded me that there’s an inherent sense of excitement to your [...]
Posted in General on Jan 15th, 2008 1 Comment »
It’s Jan 15th - the day of Steve Jobs’ keynote at Macworld - where he announces the latest from Apple. An event famously watched by numerous Apple geeks (inc. me) around the world to see what’s coming. It’s a moment in time when Apple’s share price can easily gain 10% (in an hour). And it’s [...]
Posted in General on Jan 11th, 2008 No Comments »
Posted in General on Sep 18th, 2007 2 Comments »
Last week, I went to a debate hosted by the RSA - entitled the “Great Digital Seduction” which is, in itself, a wonderful title.
There were two speakers:
Andrew Keen - the man who wrote the book “The Cult of the Amateur: How Today’s Internet Is Killing Our Culture and Assaulting Our Economy” and Tim Montgomerie, editor [...]
Posted in General on Sep 11th, 2007 No Comments »
Lovely little web site that works out a good walking route, then tells you the calorie burn-off, walking times and CO2 avoided.
Only works for a few cities right now, but it’s great if you live in London…
Click here.
Posted in General on Sep 8th, 2007 No Comments »
This is one of the best stories I’ve read on Creativity Online…
A Partizan animator, called Nicolas, was playing with a couple of new software programs on his Mac. And tried out something on UFO’s. Then posted it for fun. Prompting a new wave of UFO chatter.
See the video here - looks cool. Love the [...]
Posted in General on Sep 8th, 2007 1 Comment »
The old adage was that there’s no such thing as bad PR.
Yet here we have a Miss USA contestant who stumbled on a question - you could think a number of things, one being that it’s pretty intense pressure when you’re up on the stage and she just crumbled a bit under the pressure. Whatever [...]