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Johnnie Moore

Johnnie Moore

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

Corante’s new Marketing Hub features “the best writing and thinking on marketing across the blogosphere and beyond”… plus, er me! Corante provide a digest of posts about marketing, from a variety of sources, edited by Renee Hopkins Callahan.

I’m flattered to be part of this network… though I notice that it’s a bit like when a get a flood of extra traffic from a link: I start to worry about needing to write more intelligently. Don’t worry, the effect won’t last long and my normal erratic standard will resume shortly.

Chris Carfi has posted some of the highlights.

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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.

Passion branding

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.

Medinge Moments

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

What brand are you?

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 volatile chemistry of trust

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!

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

Putting humanity into branding

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

New Abbey

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”)

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Emotional debt

Releasing the hidden costs of pent up frustrations

Aliveness

Finding the aliveness below the surface of stuck

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Beyond contempt

I’ve been thinking of what to say about the recent UK riots. You’ll get clues to my more spontaneous responses in my twitter feed. There’s been a fair bit of

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Blowfly Podcast

James Cherkoff and I have had some interesting email conversations with Liam Mulhall a co-founder of Blowfly Beer. Last night I was able to interview him in Sydney, via Skype,

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Edges of Work

Viv and I will be offering a new workshop in a couple of weeks in Melbourne. It’s part of the preconference day for Andrew Rixon’s Creative Methods story conference. We’re