Xavier my client sent me this lovely little film about the power of emotional advertising. A simple message re-written can make a difference. In my future, writers have a role!
Paul Krugman's Op Ed in Friday's New York Times should be bone chilling for anyone working in the creative end of the business world. That is if you believe it.
He suggests that the digital world and the net is and will increasingly devalue creativity to the extent that businesses will need to give it away for free in order to maintain relationships with customers.
First there was Bear Stearns. Now, James West suggests that Lehman Brothers - that venerable institution, that’s been in business since 1850, may fall in a Bear Stearns-like meltdown.
Diane Hinton, an analyst at Standard & Poor's, said: `We're in a market environment where sometimes perception becomes reality.'
My vision for social media is a much broader, much bigger, more invasive media than we can even imagine today. With Gen-y growing up using this medium as their main medium, I only have to look at the boomer generation to see the hundreds of new industries that were created on the back of film and TV with this age group.
Everyone is being overwhelmed with a flood of requests to join all the different social networking sites. Last night I was invited to the latest one - hi5.
I have been interviewing a select group of people who impress me and who are doing their own thing in their own way. Stanley Hainsworth, Creative Director of Starbucks, Kerri Martin, and Lee Daley, former dude from Manchester United. I've been calling it Goodson Lunchtime chats.
The Only Once blog has a great posting today about the need to 'Shoot to score' and anyone who leads an independent entrepreneurial driven organization will understand what this means.
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