So you think you’ve got a community huh? Does your community really give a damn whether you are making a living out of what you do? Would your community feel guilty if it felt it had done something to adversely affect your livelihood? Steve Lieber has this kind of community. …
Ishmael Beah is from Sierra Leone. Between the ages of 13 and 16 a lot of nasty things happened to him. His whole family was killed by rebel forces in a bloody and brutal civil war. He and a group of friends tried to escape from the fighting on …
So you think you’ve got a community, huh? How much does your community care about you? To what extent does your community get off on the idea of working together to realise a dream? Would this community of yours rally round and propel your book to #1 on Amazon on …
I always complete my own review of a book before I read anyone else’s. Hopefully that stops me sounding like a book reviewer. Sometimes, if another reviewer agrees with me, but expresses my feelings better than I could, I’ll quote and link to them in an edited version. Or I’ll …
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBjEUyOw_00] Coffee with an ex-client turned into a conversation about “happening” agencies around the world. And from there to a revealing, client-eye view of agency marketing, agency models, agency philosophies and the ™ packaging of agency processes. Said client must have had thousands of cold calls, hundreds of chemistry meetings …
I got up at 5.10 a.m. this morning. I downed a pint of water, which I really didn’t feel like doing. I looked at email and Facebook for 5 minutes, mainly to kill time whilst I became properly awake. I changed. I warmed up. And by 5.30 I was off …
1) PASSION for or about something is inherently attractive. Genuine passion is highly attractive. You’ll know this if you’ve ever interviewed someone for a job. The stand-out candidates are often those who, either by luck or by design, end up talking about something about which they have a real passion. …
Well done the Red Bull Formula 1 team for taking first and second places in yesterday’s Japanese Grand Prix. And well done to the Red Bull social media team for reaching 9,000,000 fans on their Facebook page. A good week all round for everyone associated with the brand. Red Bull …
This is a review of the Millenium Trilogy by Stieg Larsson. The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. The Girl Who Played With Fire. The Girl Who Kicked The Hornets’ Nest. Millenium is a monthly magazine, based in Stockholm, with a reputation for investigative journalism whose purpose is to expose corporate …
Anything that can make the view from the office rear window look good has to be worth a mention… The Hipstamatic app for the iPhone – “Digital photography never looked so analog (sic)” – makes a virtue of the fact that the built-in camera (iPhone 3) isn’t that great. Mimicking …
