Always looking for opportunities to broaden our minds, we jumped at the chance to see Gary Vaynerchuk speak at the Business Squared event this week. The "serial entrepreneur" and four time NYT bestselling author honed in on social media, maximising our investments therein, and the...
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I recently read this post by Ogilvy’s David Long, espousing the creative benefits of using a pen and notebook over purely digital means. Call me an old fuddy duddy, but I’ve always felt my best work comes from putting pen to paper. Reading David’s first point...
Continue ReadingThe social-media landscape has grown since last year with an additional 5 more communities/platforms added and a quite a few of them are already booming. So, which social media tools and channels will work best for your business? This years largest growing community is Pintrest, which...
Continue ReadingOn any normal day, due to complete laziness I would probably take the escalator. If you presented me with the opportunity to have 'fun' whilst climbing a set of stairs, I'd definitely consider it. The Fun Project - Piano Staircase was an initiative of Volkswagen to see if by making the...
Continue ReadingKevin Allocca is YouTube's trends manager, and he has deep thoughts about silly web video. In this talk from TEDYouth, he shares the 4 reasons a video goes viral. (This is the first talk posted from an amazing TEDYouth event. Many others will come on...
Continue Readinghttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKVcQnyEIT8 Books are more than pages of text and images and this gorgeous stop-motion animation video for Type Books, in Toronto Canada, reminds us of the joys of books. It also helps to remind us of the joy of wandering though the cramped shelves of the...
Continue ReadingA great campaign for a product not normally associated with clever marketing, functional yes, clever no ...
Continue ReadingThe Google Street View snowmobile had been out and about capturing imagery for ski resorts using a special-made snowmobile made during the 2010 Winter Olympics. How awesome is this! Take a look at the YouTube below, it is amazing what they are able to show us...
Continue ReadingCarlsberg and advertising agency Duval Guillaume put together a brilliant viral commercial, by pulling a prank on unsuspecting movie goers. They filled a cinema with 148 of the baddest biker boys they could find and only left two seats left, smack bang in the middle....
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