Visualizations as Metaphors II

by | posted: July 17, 2008
I wrote a post a while back about using visualizations as metaphors. Seth Godin recently posted about how useful he found pie-charts when compared to your average bar chart. He got a lot of flak for this...
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Why Social Media isn’t a strategy

by | posted: July 17, 2008
Gareth over at Brand New posted a short musing on why we need to concentrate on building Social Brands rather than executing Social Media campaigns. I agree. And I’ve said it before, Social Media...
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Bryan Appleyard’s interview with The Black Swan Author

by | posted: July 11, 2008
Bryan Appleyard (author of Understanding the Present) has interviewed Nassim Nicholas Taleb (author of the Black Swan) for his Sunday Times article. You can read the interview here. Of all the books I’ve...
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The Pirate’s Dilema

by | posted: July 8, 2008
Sean over at CrapHammer (got to love that blog name!), posted a link to a short video promoting the new book The Pirates Dilemma, by Matt Mason. Here is the video. It definitely looks like it would be...
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Microsoft marketing success story

by | posted: July 7, 2008
You don’t rarely come across examples of Microsoft’s marketing prowess, so when you do, it’s blog-worthy (at least to me). I was looking around for the latest information on Windows Server...
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New Long Tail Debate

by | posted: July 4, 2008
If you read this blog a lot (ad thank you for those of you who do!), you know that I have been following the work of Chris Anderson for a while – his Long Tail theory and the newer Free movement. Chris...
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Back from Vacation

by | posted: July 2, 2008
Just got back from a lovely vacation in Nova Scotia. Saw lots of Moose. Which, surprising as it may seem, was one of the main reasons we went. My wife loves wild-life photography. It’s been a hectic...
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The game has changed

by | posted: June 28, 2008
I just read this post by Alan (Toad) of the Toad Stool.  He has really hit the nail in the head regarding the changing world of advertising and how some companies really are stuck in the past. In today’s...
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New blog site

by | posted: June 19, 2008
It’s a new beginning!  I’ve moved my blog from Google’s blogspot to WordPress.  The old blog is here.  I will be updating both sites for a while until most of the traffic has moved.
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