Stuff I found interesting this week
Musing about strategy
yes, JP involve your customers in your strategy - just at the right time - and the right time is organic..;)
This Blog Sits at the: Marketing out of control at FX
This is NOT how companies should respond to the fact that we the consumer do not watch their ads - ew - ugh - yick - phoeey. Thanks Grant!
brand tags
Shall we play a game - fun, addictive and emblematic of howe we define what we think of products, brands and companies.
Google brings Friend Connect to the masses | Outside the Lines - CNET News.com
"As expected, Google unveils a preview of Friend Connect, a way to add social features to a Web site without programming. Will it eradicate the social-networking 'walled garden'? Read this blog post by Dan Farber on Outside the Lines."
One big social ball of yarn....
Crocs (Yes, the Shoes!) Launches Video Network
If you're not at all shocked by the fact that Crocs shoes gained massive popularity in the past two years, ...
Another brand jumps into the fray...potentially interesting
Marketing Is Not A Tax You Pay For Being Unremarkable at Like It Matters
How did I miss my buddy Brian's brilliant post - go read it
I haz a Mine! Let me show you it… : Media Influencer
Project VRM takes off with Mine! I like the name and
Conversation Agent: 1/3, 1/3, 1/3 - Web Presence of the Future
Connecting ideas and people -- how talk can change our lives.
Seeing more and more posts on Tim's "architecture of participation" manifesting in lots of different ways
BuzzMachine » Blog Archive » Ambient intimacy
Ambient intimacy - been a fan of Lisa's for a while.
The question is - in a world of ambient intimacy how do we surface value?
disambiguity - » Ambient Exposure
ambient intimacy, architecture of participation - how do we build tools that enable more than just noise and a distinction that is more granular than the binary connection of friend/non-friend
Business Articles: Connect and Develop: Inside Procter & Gamble's New Model for Innovation - Harvard Business Review
The P&G Social Media Lab is built on this model:
Connect and Develop: Inside Procter & Gamble's New Model for Innovation, by Larry Huston, Nabil Sakkab.
Nomads at last | Economist.com
Techno bedouins: Wireless communication is changing the way people work, live, love and relate to placesâ??and each other, says Andreas Kluth (interviewed here)