Take a look at ShardsO’Glass (thanks to Seth Godin for the link).
This sharp satire reminds me of the dissonance I mentioned in my recent post on cold medicines.
I find it fascinating that some corporations seem like players near the end of a game of Naked Twister. Image is going Left-Foot-Green whilst Truth is Right-Leg-Red.
I wonder what it’s like trying to have authentic conversations in these places? Still you must get to tangle with some accomplished players from the marketing world…
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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
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”)
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
Lisa Haneberg hates performance appraisals. She’s going to spend the week talking about them. I like this statement from her first salvo: If you are expecting an objective journalistic article
Alan Moore points to a provocative piece by Neal Lawson in the Guardian: Do we want to shop or to be free?. Snippet: Who will challenge this creeping monoculture? Not
I had a great meeting with two fellow London bloggers last week Freddie Daniells and Max Blumberg. This prompted various thoughts, here are some of them: 1. Whenever I meet
Dwight Towers spotted this interesting post on barriers to collaboration. I’ve noticed that collaboration seems a lot easier to talk about than to do and this article looks at some
