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The Denver Egotist asked advertising pros in Colorado what they learned this year. Naturally, they've uncovered some interesting results. I particularly like Evan Fry's response. Sure, I learned a shit-ton about clients, business realities, finance, revenue models, leadership, empowerment, allowing folks to succeed on their own (or fail, and thereby succeed), fearlessness, change, pushing, allowing, etc. But …
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Warning: this post is self-promotional, but you can benefit by reading it all the way through. Is AdPulp good for my career as a copywriter/creative director? It's a question I feel compelled to revisit every so often. On its head, the answer is of course it is. I know way more people in the industry than ever before, and my daily production here keeps my name and my thinking in front of lots of potential …
Blogging is a new form. "Media now is raw, collaborative and instantaneous," argues Om Malik, one of the world's most successful bloggers. With a new form comes new challenges, and Om recently wrote a post on Gigaom reflecting on the past 10 years he spent perfecting the art of blogging. I wrote every day and every day traffic went up. More importantly, more people joined the community of readers. My blog became …
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Next Tuesday is Pay a Blogger Day, a paid content initiative from Flattr, the Swedish company who makes it easy to support blogs and other things you care about. Here's more on how Flattr works... Last week I was reading a comment on Maria Popova's Brain Pickings about the desire to fund her site properly. There are sights (like yours), that have the "make a donation" link, and I think, "I should …
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The San Francisco Egotist is upping its content offering via a new 10-part series featuring some of the city's top creative minds. Starting Monday, November 14th you can check out episode one of the roundtable discussions between Rich Silverstein, PJ Pereira, Kevin Roddy, Paul Venables, Steve Stone, Rob Price, Stephen Goldblatt, Tommy Means, DJ O’Neil, Scott Duchon and Ron Lim. …
As a copywriter who just up and moved 2500 miles, I've been out meeting new folks in the agency scene here whenever I can. But I'd love to find an art director who's willing to team up on projects. Seems I'm not alone. Enter a new website, Single Creatives. It's hard to glean much background about the site. It looks to be based in the U.K., and the site is in Beta at the moment. But it's a forum for …
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