Good comment from Stefan Liute in Romania:
AT&T in conduct highly becoming a lumbering corporate giant once again proves one can never be too bland when it comes to verbal identity: they seem to be trademarking “It
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”)
Here in Banff at the Applied Improv conference it’s no surprise my mind is on games. I enjoyed The Inner Game of Work on the flight over which has a
Neil Perkin examines the success of the New York Times paywall. In a nutshell, it works because it’s porous. Porosity is a concept that’s caught my attention before. I guess
Alex Sternick has some great insights on the value of absurdity, including the arresting thought the nonsense can be a path to meaning. it includes a reference to a little study
Russell Davies has been in California at eg2206 and has a great writeup of the highlights. (This is one of the things I love about blogging… that if I miss
