DISQUS

Have fun! I won't be there this year... workload not permitting this time.
;-( wish I was there.

Maybe this year I would have interviewed you about the Tide thing the other night!

Have a blast, forward positive vibes on to everyone at SXSW!

Oh the humanity!

Thanks for the props. Great additional thoughts on the notion. In this space, we judge people by the character of their content, not by the colour of their logo.

... oh my... that may be the title of my next post!


be well
collin

That 200 nipples thing is awesome. I hope they don't discriminate against people with 3 nipples... not that I know anybody like that or anything... I'm just say'n

Hey Jason

Oops, your chart says that groups cannot have social ad promotion. You can do social ad promotion for groups. I used social ads to kick start my experimental Soviet Poster and Steam Punk groups in the past. Both returned on expectations.

Thanks again for the links to my radical trust series on Facebook Pages Best Practices. I have recently updated another post with lessons from the top ten (by population) pages. http://www.radicaltrust.ca/2008/09/29/best-prac...

This is a great post... added bookmarks!

cheers
collin

It only takes one to screw in the light bulb, but count on 2000 to blog about it endlessly.

I'm giddy.

This is so meta!

I love that you did this Zoe! They should hire you :-)


Maybe I should do a "Plain English" on you doing a "Plain English" on common craft doing "Plain English"... in Dutch of course.

cheers

You are good people.

"Your flagrant waste of syllables is causing global warming."


ha ha ha ha ha !!!!!

Quote of the day :-)

It's true, she loves teaching people to play. I only lost $27 with her instruction, Without it I surely would have lost the entire $100 I brought.

... and oh yeah wear sunscreen!


Awesome post.
You got a new fan.
Collin Douma
Radical Trust

I always enjoy what the ever irreverent Bob Garfield has to say, and write. I also agree that most of his dire predictions are about to be true, rather then currently are. Inevitable as they may be. There is still time for the agencies to shift... but they are going to take a few on the chin, and in the bottom line before the dust settles. I wonder who will be the first to accept that?

My guess is, we will lose a couple completely before that happens.

You may have something here.

fingers are crossed!
hope to see you there
collin

As an agency guy, frankly I am surprised that the agency number of 25% is so high. Not that I am defending Advertising, particularly the 30 sec spot as any sort of solution.

As I write this, here are the questions I ponder...

Has this commercialization of journalism reduced this communication to another advertising channel?

Has this removed credibility from the entire concept of journalism?

Are “product messages” in the press as equally ineffective as the ads that are surrounding them if nobody is reading the paper?

Is it time to separate “Buzz” from “Press”?

Getting things in the press does not constitute a
conversation anymore? Does it? How?

I am with you, conversation and peer influence are vital to brand building today. Perhaps the various Social Media platforms are the current optimal format to achieve this.

A cigarette company! What a great idea! 2 colours on one crayon. The first 4/5ths of the crayon would be named something like "lite white" with the last bit "osmose orange". They could actually use the crayon as a pretend smoke, to impress the other kids with their coolness.

I think I may go to hell now.

Are you saying Gretzky doesn't drive a ford?
What the F@#@! Why wouldn't a multimillionaire drive a Tempo? Of course he does... say it ain't so.

I wish my mom would visit my blog...
i wish my mom knew what a blog was!

Will your mom visit my blog?
collin

OMG!

You are so funny.
You reviewed our business cards? RAWK!

This is... by far... the funniest blog post I have read in a long time.

It was awesome meeting you guys... looking forward to the next one for sure...
I will get the first round, No Problem! err.. I mean, My Pleasure!

When I was 6 I wanted to be a helicopter pilot.

When I was 18, I wanted to be a helicopter pilot, but couldn't afford it, so I studied animation

When I was 20 I took my first job in marketing

I made Creative Director at age 28.

I am now 32, and I want to be a helicopter pilot.

Pretty soon I will be able to afford it.

I agree with you and vernon...

I would add that "Z-Tags" or something like that might have been better solution. However, I buy into the concept a bit, afterall, there are only a few hundred blogs involved here... it's not like the entire technorati world will change... unless every community within technorati starts to do it.

Most of us are marketers after all. Who doesn't buy in to the odd pyramid scheme from time to time?

he he he

:-)