Like Hugh, I’m enjoying Howard Mann’s new blog. I met Howard last week in New York and had a great conversation with him. He closes his post today – Staying In The Brickyard – with the thought
Maybe your company doesn’t need “The Big Idea”. Maybe it just needs a stronger sense of purpose.
Which I think is a great question for companies to ask before engaging in another rebranding exercise.
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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
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.
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.
I’ve been doing a lot of thinking – and worrying – about collaboration. I think the ability to collaborate effectively is becoming ever more essential
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
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
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
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
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’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.
I’ve been thinking a lot about what goes unspoken in the world in general and in my little slice of it in particular. There I go, thinking again, but I
I’m cream crackered (Baffled Americans see this explanation) It’s been a good week and I’ve been “on-stage” for more of it that I’m used to. Quite a lot of facilitiation
Here’s one of the most striking exhibits I enjoyed this afternoon at the Art Gallery NSW. It’s set of sculpted fruit bats hanging not from trees as per normal but
Last Friday I interviewed two of the the founders of Zopa, a new organisation that is a kind of “eBay for Money”. Zopa is a British company that creates a
