James and I are running our second Open Sauce Surgery on the morning of July 5th. It’s a an opportunity to generate ideas for collaborative marketing and is suited to both consultants and clients. We ran the first one last Friday and everyone seemed to have a good time.
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”)
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 gathering of Knowledge Managment gurus
One more thought about ordinariness and its connection to the extraordinary arising from Reboot. Ben Hammersley is a lovely presenter the blogosphere’s answer to Eddie Izzard (what was the question?)
Here’s a good example of a small intervention with a surprisingly big effect, spotted by Jon Strande. Kevin told me that he’s had a problem with flamers, who come to
Lloyd Davis has a good post exploring how people group themselves at conferences. I see two basic models of how people can talk to each other at events like this.
