September 18, 2007

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Johnnie Moore

I’m Johnnie Moore, and I help people work better together

Andrew Sullivan acknowledges that YouTube sometimes maginifies and extends people’s pratfalls… but it can also highlight acts of kindness. He cites this example.

UPDATE: I loved Patti Digh’s comments (see trackbacks) especially this bit: “It wasn’t that he was standing right next to this young girl–he had to journey from his comfortable place in the stands to get there. It wasn’t that he’s a great singer. It’s that he’s a great coach, a caring soul someone who lifts people up when they need it.” And look at what he does at the end: he steps back out of the way. Great job.

Blogging for Ourhouse

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

Keeping up with Tony Goodson

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.

Collaboration

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

Just Undo It?

The AntiBrand: blackSpot sneakers, a project by Adbusters attacks Nike directly. In doing so they take on what has become one of the great icons

Trust and NGOs

My friend Olaf Brugman has invited me to take part in a workshop in Brussels on October 29th. It looks set to be an interesting

David Bowie says IP is in for a bashing

The Church of the Customer blog quotes an NY Times interview with David Bowie who says: I’m fully confident that copyright for instance, will no

Spam comments and the power of community

I’ve just started to suffer from Spam comments the latest effort by these wretches to publicise their sites. They basically post fatuous comments to weblogs

Google translates compliments well… but strangles a lot of stuff!

At the NGO conference (blogged yeserday and the day before) I met Martin Roell a German blogger and e-business guru. He’s blogged the event in

SharpReader

I’ve finally started paying attention to RSS and all this stuff about “Blog Aggregators”. The final shove was wanting to get Martin Roell’s English feed.

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links for 2011-08-29

BBC News – Anna Hazare's movement – a reality check for India A bottom-up insurgency against the establishment no doubt with its flaws but triggering classic elitist bluster from those

29 August 2011

No more grand narrative?

After Sean let fly at the market research business I’m pleased to see Piers doing the same for the trendspotters. For me, there’s a message linking both: can we get

6 February 2008

Insight

Jonah Lehrer has a good article in the New Yorker The Eureka Hunt (pdf) looking at research on what happens inside our heads when we come up with sudden insights.

27 July 2008

Measurement

Nice provocative thought from Earl Mardle: “If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it” Corollary, you end up with a business that only produces measurements. There’s no point being

Yeah, I liked it too

Johnnie Moore

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