LINKS FROM March 2007
"The following are the principles that I use to be a transparent company."
Tags: business communication transparency
Bochco enters the online world
"I used to have friends that would call me on the phone constantly and say, "Listen to this one ... ." It was a culture of storytelling -- joke telling -- because that's a kind of community, and people don't do that anymore."
Tags: television media2.0 video culture interviews
"Living rooms, bedrooms, dinettes . . . " Amazing rhymes for a furniture salesman."
Tags: commercial funny advertising youtube
"The "long table" is a physical manifestation of networked culture. Information is less driven by hierarchy and process and more driven through connections, collaboration, transparency and as Noah aptly put it in his blog, moments of serrendipity."
Tags: design ideas marketing business
New article for Mediacat (and a glimpse of the green marketing book)
"Green marketing is an opportunity. An opportunity to do good business (in both senses of the word). An opportunity for creativity. An opportunity for marketing people to lead social change for once."
Tags: innovation environment green marketing
"To reduce their impact on the environment, two New Yorkers give up what most take for granted."
Tags: environment green nyc nytimes garbage
Is a new breed of wireless worker emerging?
Tags: culture mobile wireless business
"The perceived importance and value of entries to readers is inversely proportional to the frequency of entries on any given day."
A question to ponder: should big companies even try to innovate internally?
"Even though Yahoo has grown into the entity it is today by virtue of building innovative products, perhaps its future growth path should be driven by its ability to SPOT innovation, not create it."
Tags: yahoo innovation business
Digesting Google's New PPA Advertising Product
Wow. Google has finally added a pay-per-action product. The marketing world is going to change very soon.
Tags: adsense advertising google marketing search
how to be an explorer of the world
13 tips . . .
Tags: inspiration
"Online FLV Converter : Download online videos direct to PC / iPod / PSP. It's free!"
"By looking at marketing as a service rather than a message, marketers are sure to gain competitive advantage, enhancing their product offerings and engaging their customers and prospects in fresh and meaningful ways."
Tags: marketing brandedutility business trend
"Great design drives profits. We know that. But we can't prove it--yet."
Tags: business design marketing roi
Big Companies, Small Companies, Innovation and Brickhouse
"Big companies are no longer competing only with big companies anymore. They're competing more and more often with two kids in a garage. Embracing risk, and the concomitant failure, is an essential part of this."
Tags: innovation yahoo flickr process business
the end of accidental networks
"One of the things that the internet extinguished was the need for accidental sociality, for post-kinship connections that depend on spatial or institutional proximity."
Tags: networking community attention culture socialnetworking
The Great Media Industry Schism
"Newspapers embody the old media world where content creation, aggregation, and distribution were inextricably linked. But the digital media revolution has made it possible to separate these functions."
Tags: media2.0 attention aggregation
Unsafe Harbors for Viacom and Google
"As content proliferates, the ability to help audiences connect with content that matters the most to them will become the real sweet spot of the media industry."
Tags: media google youtube copyright
A nice summary of the academic paper questioning the idea of influencers . . .
Tags: influence marketing research
Employees: The Overlooked Link in the Brand Chain
"The majority of Americans are more dissatisfied with their jobs than ever, although the research doesn't break down the findings by sector, you can assume that employees at the service front line have a high degree of dissatisfaction."
Tags: marketing management
"Although both men and women look at the image of George Brett when directed to find out information about his sport and position, men tend to focus on private anatomy as well as the face. For the women, the face is the only place they viewed."
Tags: brain gender psychology sex
"With Picnik you can quickly edit all your online photos from one place. It's the easiest way on the Web to fix underexposed photos, remove red-eye, or apply effects to your photos. "
Tags: photography internet tools
Some amazing paper cutouts.
Tags: design art fun templates
Only stuff at Amazon.com that's at least 70% off.
New at Pentagram: TIME Magazine
"Today, TIME launches the first issue of a major redesign developed by Pentagram’s Luke Hayman with TIME managing editor Richard Stengel and art director Arthur Hochstein."
Tags: design magazines typography
"The Carbon Trust is launching a green equivalent to the Fairtrade label - a consumer label which details the carbon footprint of a product and a commitment by its producer to reduce it."
Tags: environment carbon business marketing packaging
The Greatest Innovations of All Time
"Our focus should be on platforms: broad capabilities that have the potential to cut across industries, markets, and applications. Platforms often have some proprietary capability at the core, but not always."
Tags: history innovation lists
New del.icio.us feature: "For any of your tags, you can now add a public title and description to appear at the top of the page. It may just be to remind yourself of what it is or to tell others more about it."
Tags: tags del.icio.us metadata
Kill the stress: Knit . . . a great ad.
Tags: advertising design knitting
Arcade Fire's Neon Bible Debuts at #2
"The Arcade Fire's second album, Neon Bible, claimed the No. 2 spot on the U.S. Billboard 200 charts this week, stomping all over new LPs from Daughtry, Relient K and Robin Thicke."
All the AJAX loader goodness you could ever imagine.
Tags: ajax
Nickelodeon's winning user-generated content strategy
"For old media companies (specifically TV networks) wondering what to do about new media, pay attention -- this is one right way to do it."
Tags: television media2.0 ugc
Seven steps to remarkable customer service
"Here are seven things we learned about providing remarkable customer service. I’m using the word remarkable literallyâ€â€the goal is to provide customer service so good that people remark."
Tags: customerservice tips business
Obama's Stock: Financial Misdealings a Persistent Criticism of African American Candidates
"This past Wednesday, The New York Times reported that Obama purchased stock in companies that stood to benefit from Obama’s policy advocacy in the U.S. Senate."
It's the 'rename my neighborhood' game
"If you can name the neighborhood between 23rd and 34th between Madison and 1st, you win a prize. Really."
Tags: nyc
Apple Unveils New Product-Unveiling Product
iLaunch: "Today, Apple is releasing a piece of innovative new technology that will forever change the way innovative new technology is released."
How to Make Stop-Motion Video Shorts with Your Digital Camera
"There are many ways to go about shooting, editing and finalizing a stop-motion short; we'll be covering the simplest. Don't be discouraged by the number of steps! It's much easier than it first appears."
Tags: photography video tutorial
"The "What does Marsellus Wallace Look Like" scene in Pulp Fiction portrayed using nothing but typography. By Jarratt Moody."
Tags: movies typography design bestarticlesof2007
Narcissism and Fame Are a Little Too Easy
"The act of conveying information to others is in itself a very pleasant experience for most people . . . Sharing gives you a buzz, especially when that sharing is acknowledged directly."
Tags: blogs attention community culture
Cavemen get their own show (I told you so)
"Well, well. ABC has done a deal with the Geico cavemen to do a sitcom. The show will be set in Atlanta, where three prehistoric men battle prejudice as they go about their lives."
Tags: television advertising marketing
Numbers Drop for the Married With Children
"Punctuating a fundamental change in American family life, married couples with children now occupy fewer than one in every four households -- a share that has been slashed in half since 1960 and is the lowest ever recorded by the census."
Tags: demographics trend culture marriage
The American consumer is twice as likely to carry his mobile phone as he is to carry cash
"For those aged 18-34, the average is four times as likely."
Tags: mobile money statistics
Where Daft Punk got their samples from
"Here's where the samples on some of my favourite Daft Punk tracks came from. It's all legit, paid in full, above board. Still strange to hear, though."
How Steve Jobs Played Hardball In iPhone Birth
"In Deal With Cingular he Called The Shots; Flirting With Verizon"
Tags: apple iphone marketing technology mobile
You make profits for nine days a year
"Companies on average are only profitable for nine days out of the year. If you take all the profitâ€â€the net incomeâ€â€at the end of the year, and divide it by 365, and take the sales and divide it by 365, that’s all you’ve got, is nine days."