Archive for Logic + Emotion

Archives

Moms Give Motrin A Headache

I am literally in the middle of watching what Charline Li and Josh Bernoff call a "Groundswell".  As far as I can tell, Motrin posted an ad on their Website (see above) ...

Video Highlights From WOMMA Summit 2008

Streaming .TV shows by Ustream Above is a video recording from the panel I participated in at the WOMMA Summit in Las Vegas. My fellow panelists included Linda Saindon of Kraft, Kevin Dando ...

What’s On Your WOM List?

I'm off to participate at the WOMMA Summit (Word of Mouth Marketing Association) and it's got me thinking about what word of mouth is in the ...

A Very Brief History of Micro-Media

Maps

When ever I'm involved in an initiative, I try to somehow visualize the big picture before diving right into it. Sometimes it means thinking about an experience as a timeline. Other times it's a ...

People, Places + Events

I just wrapped up an action filled week at the Forrester Forum, where I got to meet some great folks for the first time like Bryan Person, who interviewed myself and ...

Classically Un-classic.

Pepsi Sent me a care package including cans which included logos which went all the way back to their first one. Of course we all know that ...

Pepsi: Classically Un-classic.

Pepsi Sent me a care package including cans which included logos which went all the way back to their first one. Of course we all know that ...

Proof of Micro-Interactions

Here's an e-mail I recently got from Mike: "I am currently in Orlando attending Educause (an education technology show) and decide to try out some of the restaurants up-scale Disney offers at Walt Disney World. ...

The Revolution Will Be Live

At last year's Forrester Forum, we gave a raw, live and unedited look at what goes on behind the scenes at an event like this. ...

Slide of the Day

Accidental Marketers: The Podcast

I recently recorded a fairly interesting podcast—really it's a three way conversation between myself, Gary Cohen and Dave Ehret. In it I elaborate ...

Forrester’s Consumer Forum + The Convenience Quotient

Next week I am attending and leading a discussion at The Forrester Consumer Forum. I was able to get a sneak preview of one ...

Have We Come Full Circle?

I’ve been listening to the complimentary audio version of Seth Godin’s new book called Tribes and have to say it’s fairly dead on. Except I’d ...

Bridging The Social Divide

(click for larger image)Over the weekend I had a flash of clarity while listening to a podcast from Jeremiah Owyang about companies trying ...

Innovation vs. Litigation

From my latest contribution to Ad Age/Digital Next:"There's a growing number of case studies of brands that go beyond putting their ads on social networks and it's becoming increasingly clear that brands that figure out ...

Perception Pyramid

Agency Path To Enlightenment

The Corporate Social Media Curve

Venn Economics

Unconventional Marketing

(click image for larger version)As an individual, this blog is one of the most effective manifestations of "marketing" I could have produced for ...

5 Things I learned From Dave Gray

I just wrapped up 2 days at the IDEA conference in Chicago and one of the highlights for me was getting to spend some time with ...

People, Places + Events

Just a quick update on some events I'll be a part of over the next few weeks: IDEA 2008I'll be kicking off the IDEA conference next Tuesday morning and joining a great roster ...

The 4 Kinds of “Free”

This is an updated to my original post since Chris Anderson added a "4th Free". Actually, the ironic thing about number 4 is ...

Life In Perpetual Beta

By day Melissa Pierce acts as a creative coach, for entrepreneurs in the Chicago Area.  On the side she's got an interesting project called Life In Perpetual Beta. A few weeks ago, ...

Visualizing Chris Anderson’s “Free” Model

Chris Anderson, author of the Long Tail, put out a call for help to visualize his "3 Kinds of Free" model.  The above visual is what ...

A Brand New World

Here's the thing you already know about this space. If you're not consistently evolving, growing, learning and experimenting, than you might as well go work in another ...

Blog(s) of the Day

The thing I Iove about the Web is that it levels the playing field. Novices and professionals each have equal shots at being heard. So ...

Blog(s) of the Day: IDEO

The thing I Iove about the Web is that it levels the playing field. Novices and professionals each have equal shots at being heard. So ...

10 Reasons To Stop Calling Yourself A “Blogger”

Several years ago, I gave this presentation at a blogging conference. I wanted to help people become better at blogging and I made a point ...

Live From Web 2.0

I'm attending and speakiing at the Web 2.0 Expo in New York. I'll write about it later, but for now here's a quick podcast I did with the ...

Stories That Stick

What's a story? There are so many definitions that I won't even try to define it here. But I do know one thing—good communicators are good storytellers, ...

Sketching Is A State of Mind

That's my Moleskine notebook. I take it everywhere I go and use it to sketch out ideas as they pop into my head. I'm constantly ...

Brand “U.0″ + The Chicago New Media Summit

Brand "U.0"View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: personal branding) Next Monday I'll be kicking off the Chicago New ...

Boxes + Arrows

Russ Unger recently had a chat with me over at Boxes and Arrows. Russ asked me a bunch of questions, but I though this one specifically ...

Chrome Wars

Top 10 Signs You Might Be A “Weblebrity”

Andy Warhol's prophecy was fulfilled with the advent of MTV's programming and widespread reality television. We're now seeing a new kind of micro-fame which lasts well beyond ...

Memo From A “Mad Man”

When the hit program Mad Men's characters arrived on the scene the creators moved to have the "unofficial effort" shut down. After thinking about how to ...

Beyond Conversation

OK, let's get this straight. For the past couple of years we've had a great time talking about the merits of conversation, transparency, authenticity, facilitation, participation, ...

Beyond The Conversation

OK, let's get this straight. For the past couple of years we've had a great time talking about the merits of conversation, transparency, authenticity, facilitation, participation, ...

People, Places + Events

September 3Next week I'm off to Proctor & Gamble (a Critical Mass client) to do a talk and participate in a day of internal work ...

Dan Saffer Launches Kicker

Just caught wind that Dan Saffer author of Designing for Interaction and former Experience Design Director at Adaptive Path is carving out his own path with ...

Social Networks & The Customer Experience

Upon arriving back home from a week-long vacation, I was unpleasantly surprised to return to a house with no cable, internet or phone service.  This came ...

Micro-Interactions at SXSW

I'm hoping to bring the gospel of micro-interactions (vs. advertising) to SXSW, but will need your help if you'd like to see me there.  If ...

L+E Visual Thinking on Flickr

Created with Admarket's flickrSLiDR. I've decided to put a few choice samples of the visual thinking I've done over the past few years on Flickr.  The set can be ...

IDEA 2008, + Discipline Convergance

I'll be joining some amazing speakers at IDEA 2008 held in Chicago on October 7-8.  The conference will include the following: Jesse James Garrett - ...

IDEA 2008, + Discipline Convergence

I'll be joining some amazing speakers at IDEA 2008 held in Chicago on October 7-8.  The conference will include some amazing speakers including the ...

The Micro-site Isn’t Dead. (It’s Just Not Useful)

If there’s one type of headline that gets attention—it’s about claiming the death of something.  Well, I’d like to proclaim the “un-dead” nature of a ...

Guidelines For Brands Using Twitter

For many individuals, Twitter allows us to manage our multiple circles of friends and contacts. However, In what seems like a very short amount of ...

Logic + Emotion, In Your Pocket.

I've optimized this blog for mobile consumption.  If you're interested in getting it on your phone as something you can bookmark, point your mobile browser to ...

If You Can’t Beat Them, Be Them?

I did the above visual not long after I first started blogging. While I illustrated a specific type of scenario (think Dell Hell or Comcast sleeper etc.), ...

Look Down. Move Forward.

"daddy. I'm scared""...Max, don't look down" Standing on a telephone wire hooked up to a couple of trees suspended 30 feet above the ground can ...

Sneak Preview: Age of Conversation 2 Cover Design

So here's my first pass at the cover design for the upcoming sequel to the Age of Conversation.  If you don't know the story, the ...

People, Places + Events

First off, apologies if I've had to cancel a scheduled appearance with you.  I've gotten some great speaking invitations recently from places ranging from Google to events organized by PSFK, but had to turn ...

Make Every Interaction Count

This is the last slide from the most recent version of my POV on "micro-interactions". After reading Randy ...