[faux New Yorker cartoon via Copyranter on Animal] …
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By David Burn
[faux New Yorker cartoon via Copyranter on Animal] …
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By David Burn
Naked's Will Collin on media neutrality and the future of the agency business: The willingness to embrace any and every channel without bias is the only guarantee that your agency will be as relevant to the communications landscape of 20 years’ time as it is to today’s. Objectivity is future-proof. …
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By David Burn
Richard Huntington writes clean sentences and places them on his site, Adliterate, for our enjoyment. The business world has little time for the desperately bright, painfully academic, socially inept and ponderous planner. Indeed, in our time squeezed environment it is tough to make the case for strategy at all. See what I mean? …
By David Burn
The other day we looked at the digital dive from an economic angle. In his latest column for Talent Zoo, Danny G. looks at the offline crowd through a different lens. I recently became acquainted with a new couple. They’re upscale, college-educated folks, both in their early 40’s. She’s a nurse and he’s a home remodeler. Successful folks by any measure. Except for one major, tragic flaw: They’re not wired. We need to …
By David Burn
"Part of the Midwestern psyche is you do the work and that should speak for itself." -Michael Hart In its latest issue, Creativity profiles mono, an agency in Minneapolis that is partly owned by Canadian holding company MDC. mono is the creation of Michael Hart, 40, and his creative partner Chris Lange, 36—both Minneapolis natives who have spent most of their careers there— and managing partner James Scott. I bring …
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By David Burn
[DDB Stockholm campaign for McDonald's via Tim Nudd] …
By David Burn
I loathe acronyms. Except this one: HIPPO. According to Ad Age, Avinash Kaushik, Google's Analytics Evangelist deploys the acronym in in front of hundreds of HIPPOs gathered to hear him speak. A HIPPO, or Highest Paid Person's Opinion, can be an obstacle to success on the web, argues Kaushik. Despite mounds of data, Mr. Kaushik thinks HIPPOs are the "least closest to the customer." Naturally, Google Analytics can …
By David Burn
I attended an interesting lunchtime presentation today. The Creative Coast Initiative (part of Savannah Economic Development Authority), in conjunction with Savannah social media startup Balaya, conducted a blogger focus group in SEDA's expansive conference room. First, we dined on Sweet Leaf BBQ, then we heard Ian Bramson, Balaya's President, explain his firm's flagship product, tick-it. tick-it is "a very thin …
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