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Life, liberty and gay marriage

2013-03-26T13:34:00.002-05:00

+ Today and tomorrow, Supreme Court is looking at two cases about marriage equality. They are looking at Prop 8 from California and if the federal Defense of Marriage Act wrongly denies married...

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What is digital?

2012-12-21T09:58:00.001-05:00

+ About a month ago, I was at a 2-day interagency session for a client. The goal was to come away with an integrated plan. We started off by doing some group work where there was a mix of clients and...

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Social Stats In Video Format

2012-11-25T09:29:00.001-05:00

+ Erik Qualman put together this video of stats on Social Media. Some useful info for your 2013 presentations in here. I just wish we'd stop using the music track now in these kinds of videos....

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Let's stop with the overused man vs woman concepts

2012-11-17T10:39:00.000-05:00

+ A new spot for Tecate brings back the overused stereotypical woman asking her man if "X makes her look fat". Can't we be more creative? Coke Zero, Twix and Geico are just a few examples of other...

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Travel and thoughts

2012-11-12T11:10:00.002-05:00

+ I'm back from a 10 day trip to Europe. And during the trip I met up with people in the countries I visited. One of them was someone I had never met before in person. This is not a completely...

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Social Era

2012-09-22T07:54:00.001-05:00

+ Traditional Strategy is Dead resonated with me this week when I read it. I've been saying some simliar things lately and it's nice to see others thinking the same way (and that I'm not just off...

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Society of Good Taste

2012-09-15T08:26:00.001-05:00

+ Oh Grey Poupon. Its ads from the 80s became pop culture status. In a decade of living the spendy lifestyle, it worked. If you don't remember, here is the original and a follow up that ran a few...

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I'm back, sort of...

2012-09-03T18:13:00.000-05:00

+ With the craziness of this year so far, this poor blog has been neglected. I've been to busy to think about what I think. I was just doing. And doing. And when I wasn't doing, I was too tired and...

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10 ways we can improve how we work

2012-06-19T11:45:00.000-05:00

+ Some things to work on within the ad industry: 1) Respecting other people's schedules. If I tell you I'm going to have X done by a certain time, and you schedule your day around that, and I don't...

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This and That 4.24.12

2012-04-24T08:49:00.002-05:00

+ Diagram.ly is a cool online diagramming tool. + Style conscious resumes as they call it has some interesting inspiration for resume layouts, if nothing else. + MailChimp's interactive voice style...

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The Guardian's Three Little Pigs

2012-03-03T17:06:00.001-05:00

+ Lovely epic-feeling ad from BBH for The Guardian which tells a modern day version of The Three Little Pigs. I see some awards in its future.

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Dads In Briefs

2012-03-03T16:53:00.000-05:00

+ Love this ad for BGH Air Conditioners from Del Campo Nazca Saatchi & Saatchi. Titled "Dads in Briefs" the product is the solution to stripped down dads in the heat of the summer. Nice product...

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Pinterest is just a sign of a more visual web

2012-02-28T09:04:00.000-05:00

+ Pinterest is the hottest social network right in terms of buzz right now. I had signed up ages ago and when I first played with it, I didn't really get it, to be honest. Then around the end of the...

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Branding and Digital: Part 3

2012-02-27T09:23:00.000-05:00

+Part 3: The battle between digital and traditional Digital and traditional each held their own ground for a few years. Traditional was the lead dog, and digital was just there to translate (read:...

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This and That: 02.25.12

2012-02-25T14:38:00.000-05:00

+ With all the hub-bub around Pinterest in the last month, it's no surprise someone pulled out PinClout. Yup. PinClout. + Need to work on your presentation skills? Even if you don't, you'll find...

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This and That: 01.29.12

2012-01-29T13:31:00.001-05:00

+ Super Bowl XLVI is coming up next weekend. If you want a sneak peek at what you will see, check out the Super Bowl Commercial Spoiler Alert for 2012 that I've put together. Quite a few ads are...

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A look back at posts from 2011

2012-01-02T10:49:00.003-05:00

Everyone does it. I know. But this was less for you and more for me to take a trip back through my activity on the blog here over the past year. Below are some of my favorite posts or ones that I...

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Branding and Digital: Part 2

2011-12-04T00:33:00.001-05:00

+Part 2: The birth of digital About 13 years ago when I was just getting into the business, I would have never thought really about doing what I do today. If someone had asked me in an interview...

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Branding and Digital: Part 1

2011-12-04T00:01:00.001-05:00

+ You so often hear about branding and broadcast, print or even out of home. But what about in relationship to digital? Social? Email? I recently watched Art & Copy. Yes I'm late to viewing...

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This and That: 11.6.11

2011-11-06T08:08:00.000-05:00

+ In the madness that ensues from returning from vacation and just the general craziness, here are a few things I've read, am in the middle of reading, or have scanned to go back to read or look at...

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10 things that scare Creatives

2011-10-31T06:00:00.000-05:00

+ Somethings are even scarier than ghosts and zombies. In honor of Halloween, here's a list of 10 things that can scare the bagezus out of Creatives (in no particular order). 1. Moving...

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Why Tim Gunn Can By My CD

2011-10-10T08:22:00.001-05:00

+ Maybe it's because I watched too much Project Runway this weekend (I had a couple weeks of episodes to catch up on), but I started thinking about how sweet it would be to have Tim Gunn as a...

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This and That: 10.5.11

2011-10-05T06:26:00.002-05:00

+ It's been a while since I've done a This and That post. Here's a few things of note that I've come across in my web surfing. - Coca Cola replaces brand with fan names for campaign: As part of its...

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Using websites to tell stories

2011-09-27T06:34:00.001-05:00

+ Yesterday I came across a post on the Zeus Jones blog about websites as storytelling. The poster talks specifically about using HTML5 to create one page sites as storytelling devices. These tend...

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Why Copywriters need to care about typography

2011-08-31T06:53:00.000-05:00

+ If you're a copywriter, you might think something like typography is a thing that is only in the realm of designers and art directors. But, you should think again. Typography is the design of your...

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