After the recent berating of PR bloggers for laxitude it doesn’t surprise me that my friend Tim Kitchin says
I will do almost anything to avoid admitting that I’m in public relations
And adds some ideas on how he can square it with his conscience/ego (delete as appropriate)
I’ve just had a delightful meeting with Emma Cahill co-founder of publishing house Snowbooks. They describe their approach thus: We publish far fewer titles than
Once again, it turns out that what we do naturally has more value than we realise; whereas clever contrivances intended to “improve” our effectiveness often just destroy significance… and make us less well understood! A good lesson for all those presentation trainers and “image consultants” out there!
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
Linus Torvalds demonstrates humbleness, which makes him a different kind of hero. Tom Heuerman contrasts heroic “leadership” with heroic journeys.
I popped over to Kogan Page yesterday to pick up my own copy of Beyond Branding. (It’s quite handy that my publisher is a 10
I met Paul Goodison yesterday along with my Beyond Branding co-authors Tim Kitchin and Malcolm Allan and fellow Medinge Group member Luke Nicholson. (The Medinge
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
I met Ton Zijlstra and his partner Elmine yesterday evening and we went to see the wonderful and bizarre Jerry Springer The Opera. How can
Jennifer Rice has been talking about our meetings in Malmo. Modesty (the False brand of it) prevents me from quoting the very flattering things she
Hard on the heels of More Space I’m now waxing lyrical in another new book John Winsor’s Spark. The book’s subtitle is “Be more innovative
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.
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.
Jonah Lehrer: Karl Popper the great philosopher of science once divided the world into two categories: clocks and clouds. Clocks are neat, orderly systems that can be solved through reduction;
