James and I are running an Open Sauce Surgery on the morning of May 9th in London. This is for no more than five participants to learn about how to apply Open Source Marketing to their organisation. There’s currently one place left.
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
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
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
We live in a world of too much marketing and too much branding. People’s faith in advertising has fallen to new lows as we simply
So the Abbey National is rebranding itself this morning. As I write this entry, they are revealing their new look, their shortened name (just “Abbey”)
Marc Canter is fed up with the speaker list at the Supernova conference this summer and is planning an alternative: So I say lets just do our own conference, charge
Ton Zijlsta announces another blogwalk this time in Seattle on September 2nd. Themes: “unconferencing open space, and how on-line blogging exchanges migrate to face to face meetings”. As Ton says,
Thoughts on what I’m calling The Southwest Paradox – and what it means about a questionable assumption behind many business and other how-to books. This may be a jumping off point for my essay for the More Space project.
In an imagined world where cause and effect no longer work predictably… Most people have learned to live in the moment. The argument goes that if the past has an
