December 30, 2005

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David Burn at AdPulp spots what looks like some unwise, unofficial blog activity by someone at Alaska Airlines having a go at Jeremy Hermanns’ blog account of an unfortunate problem on one of the airline’s flights. Another reason why companies can’t ignore blogging… if you don’t take it reasonably seriously, you – or one of your employees – will start to make you look inept.

Waterfalls and chaos

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.

Unhurried marketing

I’m experimenting with marketing less and listening more

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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

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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.

The power of community

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.

Passion branding

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I’ve been doing a lot of thinking – and worrying – about collaboration. I think the ability to collaborate effectively is becoming ever more essential

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