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
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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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Tangential creativity
Quite a few people have pointed to John Naughton’s article: Lasers would never have shone if Mandelson had been in charge. Naughton challenges the government’s plans to restrict science funding
18 January 2010
Market Research Conference
James and I are giving a talk at the Market Research Society Conference later this month. This should be interesting as I’ve not been particularly appreciative of the MR industry
24 February 2006
Noticing
In Dublin last week Kay Scorah and I ran our first Day of Noticing Workshop. Kay and I are good friends but we’ve not actually run anything together before and
6 April 2009
Herds and blancmanges
Mark’s published his Admap article: Forget influentials herd-like copying is how brands spread (pdf). This is a nice summary of Mark’s pedigree hobbyhorse. He challenges marketing gurus who think it’s
15 November 2008