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Freedom!

July 11, 2014 Leave a comment

Inspired by a recent article about 99 Days of Freedom, and the overall declining value of the Facebook experience, I just deactivated my account.

Earlier today, after blogging about a company called HomeJoy‘s lack of understanding of how memes work (and an RT from my buddy Kevin), their communications director shot me a note saying “message received.” Nice to see them paying attention. But it’s a slow day here in the office so I figured I’d help them out a bit more.

Seeing as how their key RTB is “$38 for a clean home” and they like the idea of memes, I made them a few.

Attention Homejoy, if you use any these, I expect royalties or commissions, or a free t-shirt, or something.

Filed under advertising, Blogging, brands, social media Tagged with bad luck brian, blogs, brands, good guy greg, humor, memes, most interesting man in the world, ski instructor, social media

And now, your social media fail of the day

December 17, 2013 2 Comments

Not only does Mt Gox (a BitCoin exchange) have their Twitter account set to auto-reply (a big no-no), the auto-reply message is basically just telling you to fuck off. AND THEN, the message is more than 140 characters!

Maybe they’re too busy watching their BitCoin valuation shoot the roof to care about something as silly as Twitter. That’s okay!

But if that’s your plan, why use Twitter at all?

Probably, because internet.

Filed under advertising, brands, social media, Technology Tagged with brands, fail, faux pas, social, social media, social media fail, Twitter

I love technology, but enough is enough

November 11, 2013 1 Comment

This video is amazing. Look at us (and I’m definitely including myself in this). This is not natural. This is not how we are supposed to live.

Let’s put the phones down when we’re with each other, okay?

And let’s stop suffering from Phomo.

Filed under Technology, Trends Tagged with behavior, gadgets, mobile-social, phomo, social media, technology, trends

Call 911 or Go Viral – The Choice is Yours

May 22, 2012 Leave a comment

Have you ever been watching TV and seen a video of something terrible happening to someone? Like this:

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85,000 people have watched that video. It was shown on tons of major news outlets. Who was recording it? Why weren’t they calling for help? Are people more interested in getting their video on TV, or having it “go viral,” than in helping out someone in trouble?

My friend Ian Cohen recently wrote a post on the Weber Shandwick Social Studies blog about a time when he had to make a choice between calling 911 and recording a horrific accident. Here’s a little bit of it, click through to read the rest.

…I looked out my window and I saw a car across the street on fire. A car had crashed into a telephone pole and was going up in flames.

Instead of reaching for the phone to call 9-1-1, like you have been trained to do since a little kid, I did what I have been trained to do in my career and grabbed my camera (iPhone camera bc it was at arms length). I started taking a video of the car on fire as others ran across the street trying to help.

Click here to read the rest of his post…

Filed under Blogging, social media, Trends, videos Tagged with blogs, Ian Cohen, planning, social media, trends, video, Viral, weber shandwick

Inspirational quotes from PSFK 2012

April 9, 2012 14 Comments

Looking back over my notes from this year’s PSFK conference I’m not struck by as many obvious themes as last year. While the big overarching themes of creativity, inspiration, and entrepreneurship are there, the collection of speakers felt a little more random. Not to say there weren’t some great speakers (I’ll post my favorites as soon as they are available), but they didn’t feel as connected this year.

So until I get the videos, here are some quotes that jumped out at me from the day (they are pretty close to verbatim, but I can only write so fast):

“It’s hard to have original ideas when you are surrounded by people who all have the same experiences as you,” – Jonathan Harris, Cowbird
“I don’t open at 7:30am because I don’t like getting up early. And I don’t sell sandwiches because I don’t want the conversation to be about mustard,” – Todd Carmichael, La Colombe Torrefaction
“All technology extends a pre-existing urge that is already within us,” – Marshall McLuhan (no, he wasn’t at PSFK, someone had this quote in a presentation)
“People are at their best when they create,” – Georg Petschnigg, FiftyThree
“Don’t ever give into bad design. Be the dumbest person in the room. If you’re not helping get out. Be nice,” – Simon Collins, Parsons New School of Design
“If I find myself complaining about something over and over again, I do something about it or let it go,” – Tina Roth-Eisenberg, @swissmiss
“The best way to complain is to make things,” – LCD Soundsystem (also not in attendance, but the quote was used in a presentation)
“Do less, be more,” – Shantell Martin
“Valuable stories are ones that contain teachable moments, ” – Jonathan Harris, Cowbird
“To understand is to perceive patterns,” – Isaiah Berlin (used in a presentation)
“We’ve lost the meaning of the word ‘passion,'” – Todd Carmichael, La Colombe Torrefaction
“If your business plan is to be Steve Jobs, get a backup plan,” – Todd Carmichael, La Colombe Torrefaction
“Sometimes it’s not filling the balloon with helium but cutting off the sandbags that gets you aloft,” Clay Shirky, NYU ITP

I hope that you got some inspiration from these and if you noted any quotes you loved from the day, share them in the comments section below.

Filed under Account Planning, advertising, brands, Conferences, Presentations Tagged with advertising, brands, Clay Shirky, conferences, cowbird, georg petschnigg, Isaiah Berlin, Jonathan Harris, la colombe, LCD Soundsystem, Marshall McLuhan, NYU ITP, planning, psfk, shantell martin, Simon Collins, social media, Steve Jobs, Strategy, swissmiss, technology, tina roth-eisenberg, todd carmichael, trends

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