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We’ve all heard the cries, and maybe even uttered them ourselves. “There’s just too much information, I can’t possibly keep on top of it all.” Well, the gods heard you and they laughed. Welcome to the age of compound content growth. Cloud computing, shared devices,…
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Day one of CES and the buzz is thick and fast on the ground. The first takeaway for brands? Your customers are poised to interact with devices and content in ways you’ve only seen in movies. Get ready, because Minority Report is coming to the…
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If last year’s Consumer Electronics Show was all about mobile, mobile, mobile, this year’s is…well, still about mobile. But CES 2012 is about mobile spiked with content, and how people will behave and purchase when those dots are connected. Let’s start with the booming number…
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A few days ago I cooked a half-pepperoni/half-cheese pizza. I didn’t want to eat any pepperoni so I cut the pizza in half and ate half of a cheese pizza. It was exactly what I wanted and it was a delicious, satisfying experience brought to me…
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In the NFL in the 1990s, Michael Irvin earned his self-proclaimed nickname, “The Playmaker,” by scoring big touchdowns and backing up his talk with actions. I love playmakers, people who achieve big things and don’t back away from pressure. But Irvin’s best asset was that…
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Back in April, we posted about the touchscreen vision of the future, as exemplified via Corning Glass’s A Day Made of Glass viral video. If you haven’t seen the video and read Andy Keith’s post, check it out now – it’s an engaging B2B video…
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Today I’m glad I can finally tell everyone my good news: I’ve joined Weber Shandwick as EVP, Social Business Innovation. I’ll be working with the agency’s clients to extend Weber Shandwick’s long history of social business innovation consultation (and implementation) for some of the world’s…
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What makes a world class brand? Increasingly the answer is how social it is. Our team at Weber Shandwick, along with Forbes Insights, recently surveyed 1,897 senior executives from major companies in 50 different countries. The resulting study – Socializing Your Brand: A Brand’s Guide…
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I’m reading Julien Smith’s free e-book The Flinch right now. Early in the book, he says: In a fight, there is a fundamental difference between boxers and everyone else. The guys who have trained are different. If you hit them, they don’t flinch. It takes practice…
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I recently discovered Google+ Hangouts, and I am glad I did. In my opinion, it blows Skype’s group video subscription out of the water. Not only is it free but it’s easy to use. All you need is a webcam and a Google+ account. How…