I was reading Seth Godin’s post today about whether ‘marketing is evil’ or not. His answer was that while marketing itself isn’t usually evil, market-ers sometimes are, and that can lead to bad things. While I’d agree, I’d also take a step back and try to look at the business or marketing and advertising. One…
With all the discussion of the changing (and subsequent resetting) of the Terms of Service on Facebook I’ve been thinking about our digital lives and who owns all this content. And what are the implications of that? Let’s face it – if you have a Facebook or MySpace or Flickr or any social network account,…
When was the last time you received bad service? Whether its customer service or a long wait on hold to speak to a live person or having to go through 5 people via phone until you reach someone who can help you with your issue? When’s the last time you had that happen? It probably…
Another Brilliant post by Seth Godin. Can’t wait to see him at The 99% Conference in April. Here’s the first two, full 5 at his site (don’t want to rob his traffic). Every question you ask is expensive. (Expensive in terms of loyalty and goodwill). Don’t ask a question unless you truly care about the…
This morning I got an email from Rach which was an automated message through Kiva.org talking about its services and mission. For those of that don’t know (including me up until a few hours ago), Kiva is a micro-lending site that specializes in raising loan funds (read: not donations) for entrepreneurs in developing countries on…
Read a great post from Krista Neher today about a tool called ‘Twitterhawk‘ (read full post here). This is a tool that crawls Twitter looking for tweets about a topic of your choice then will automatically sent an @reply out from your account to that poster. Krista lays out some great points with regard to…
The great minds on hand and the great talks at TED continually inform me and make me think about things and problems that are much bigger than myself. But more importantly they move and inspire me. Seeing the work and ideas that these people bring to the table gives me hope that we’ll be able…
I saw this package design featured on TheDieLine.com today and just loved not only the visuals, but the whole idea for the product – Tattoo Tester. It basically is a home temporary tattoo kit. Cool idea, great visuals. Check out the whole post here, or hit the thumbnails to enlarge.