How brands use social media to re-invent themselves from the inside out.

June 14, 2010

I recently got a great post comment from @mikescheiner that I thought was extremely well put. He wrote:
“What most brands fail to understand is the perception you produce internally is reflected externally.”
This is spot on and I wanted to discuss how social media can be used to rally company employees around their brand, its values [...]

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How brands use action ads for immediate positive change: Poprule with Rob Kramer.

June 11, 2010

As you know I’m constantly exploring ways for brands to contribute to social change and I recently had the pleasure of chatting to Rob Kramer who has just launched an action technology platform that does just that.
THE SEMANTIC WEB MEETS CAUSE MARKETING
SM:  How does Poprule work?  How does it use the semantic web to take [...]

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Why Capitalism is Irrational: ‘First as Tragedy, Then as Farce’ by Slavoj Zizek

June 9, 2010

This week’s book  review and giveaway is ‘First as Tragedy, then as Farce’ by Slavoj Zizek. It’s a zestful and intelligent critique of contemporary capitalism in which Zizek asserts capitalism is completely irrational in a way that is impossible to ignore considering the recent financial crisis.
Using this example, as well as many others in recent history, [...]

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Mark Zuckerberg: Everyone’s favorite privacy pinata

June 7, 2010

It looks like Mark Zuckerberg will continue to be everyone’s favorite punching bag this week. I’ve written earlier as to why I believe the issue is much larger than Zuckerberg or Facebook, and Robert Scoble did a great piece yesterday reminding us exactly what Mark has already achieved – to his benefit and ours – [...]

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Cannes Festival: Where new media & advertising meet (Part 2)

June 3, 2010

Last week I shared Part 1 of my breakdown of seminars that I’m excited about at the Cannes Advertising Festival this year. Here is Part 2hat includes a short synopsis of what each talk is about and what I’ll be speaking about as well with Alec Ross in our seminar sponsored by InterCulture.
Adobe: Shantanu Narayen This [...]

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Social Media & Cultural Diplomacy: How we build bridges through community

May 31, 2010

Last Thursday I had the pleasure of speaking on a panel regarding the role of cultural diplomacy in bridging U.S./Muslim relations. The theme for the evening was “In The Age of Global Civilization There Is No Us or Them” and the special guest was Farah Pandith, President Obama’s Special Envoy to Muslim Communities under Secretary [...]

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Is Facebook really the one with the identity crisis?

May 26, 2010

Today Mark Zuckerberg travels to D.C. for a Congressional Briefing on privacy. While this will probably bring the privacy debate to a boil, I wanted to return to a Zuckerberg statement revealed last week that was largely overlooked in the emotion of privacy pushback. The statement was extracted  from David Kirkpatrick’s upcoming book, The Facebook Effect by Michael Zimmer [...]

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Cannes International Advertising Festival: Where social media and the future of advertising meet (Part 1)

May 24, 2010

I’m really excited to be speaking at the Cannes International Advertising Festival this year and wanted to share some of the seminars that I’m looking forward to.
I’ll give a snapshot of what each is about so that you get a sense of what issues the industry is addressing. Plus, if you’re going, this should be a [...]

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