StefanSteven Safran reflects on the cancellation of a popular US comedy show.
Getting cancelled is the best possible thing that could have happened to Arrested Development.
He puts forward a way to disintermediate the networks throwing the whole show online and vigorously engaging its fanbase in future episodes. Great provocative thinking.
Thanks to Alan Moore for spotting it. (Alan’s Communities Dominate Brands blog is one of my must-reads these days.)
I linked to this paper on wicked problems the other day and Chris Corrigan commented “there’s a lot in that paper eh?”. Which is true.
I’m experimenting with marketing less and listening more
Passion brands bring people together based on common interests and excitements. I’m particularly interested in ones created from the bottom up, as opposed to driven by producers concerned mainly with profit.
Just back from another extraordinary gathering at Medinge where the community that has produced Beyond Branding meets each summer. I was planning to keep this
Welcome to the Ourhouse Weblog. Blogging is something I’ve become increasingly interested in. Earlier this month I set up the Beyond Branding Blog which is
The competitive streak in me means I need to keep with Tony Goodson’s blog. The struggles of learning to speak “Movable Type” and thoughts on the nature of blogging.
Earlier today I was writing about passion brands and the power of community. I got a small but interesting example of this principle in action when I visited Ton Zijltra’s blog to find that he’s opened a separate blog on his planned abandonment of Microsoft.
Interesting research from Stanford suggests that exciting brands get more trusted after making mistakes and putting them right whilst more “sincere” brands start with more trust but lose it more easily. Perhaps the sensible interpretation is that second-guessing customers can be a waste of time!
Michael Hammer’s new book, The Agenda, is about the rise of customer power. But is customer-centricity really such a good model for business and society?
Thanks to Matt Tucker at Smith Associates for telling me about What Brand Are You. It strikes me that lots of companies waste money on
I wrote about Howard Mann’s ebook the other day and said I liked his “pay fast get paid faster” idea. He’s now posted a few tips to help with the
Keith Sawyer highlights an article from Nature. It describes how a complex mathematical theorem is solved by massive collaboration hosted on a blog. Here’s a key point that Keith identifies
Jack Martin Leith has a thoughtful post about conversation with some juicy quotes. This one makes particular sense to me: Your organization’s culture is nothing more than what individuals say
Dan Pallotta makes a lot of sense to me. More often than not we see life through a barely translucent movie screen in our minds that is running nine shows
