Thanks to Jack Yan for spotting this site where you get to create your own South Park character. I’m not sure how this fan site relates to the brand but I assume they’re pretty happy to support this sort of co-creation.
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.
Improv can still be powerful when it’s mundane
I’m experimenting with marketing less and listening more
Finding space for stronger feelings in collaboration
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?
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
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
I wrote the other day about the pitfalls of empowerment. Neil Jameson of Citizens UK has a good piece in the Guardian describing the success of the campaign to get
Chris Corrigan has a good post criticising the logo of the 2010 Winter Olympics. The powers-that-be have chosen an Inuit design for games staged the other side of the continent
I’m fascinated by the thinking of David Bohm. Here’s an interview with him from 1987. Serious brain food. One of Bohm’s ideas was that of the implicate order; that everything
One of the great things about Banff was the chance to deepen friendships with folks I know almost entirely from blogging. Patti Digh gave a terrific presentation with her partner,
