While I spend my days dabbling in 1s and 0s and selling my way through a career in advertising, I have two brothers that work to help those around them. One is a banker with Commerce Bank and is probably one of the hardest working and most loyal people you could ever met. Say what [...]
I’m a little amused that they went with a serif font like Times. Granted, I don’t think Blagojevich rates the sophistication of an Arial or Helvetica. Come to think of it, this actually may be one of those rare moments that justifies the use of Comic Sans. [Link via the Funbunker.]
These are my links for January 15th through January 26th:
- How Should Your Company Handle Negative Blog Comments? | Marketing Profs Daily Fix Blog: Some common sense advice on entering the fray of a negative blog comment stream.
- Organic vs. Inorganic Communities | The Harte of Marketing: A great read on the pros/cons/differences between types of online communities. Good food for thought for anyone thinking about community-building for clients or for their own purposes.
- Introduction To Getting Paid For Value Instead of Time – SlideShare: It makes sense when you think about it, but with clients indoctrinated in an old system mindset and agencies hardly every willing to push the point, it's hard to say if/when the paradigm shift could happen. Regardless, agencies need to start rethinking what sort of value they provide their clients by merely executing and not putting a price tag on strategy, which is the real product.
- What Your Global Neighbors Are Buying – Interactive Graphic – NYTimes.com: Man, the New York Times really have their stuff together when it comes to making clean, simple, yet informative interactive infographics. Solid.
- SHIFT Communications Web 2.0 Press Release: A great template for "web 2.0" press releases. Nicely done.
Finally, here are my shots from the AC/DC show at the Sprint Center. For reviews, take a look at Tim Finn’s Back to Rockville blog and the Pitch’s Wayward Blog. The suite was pimpin’ and the view of the stage was great. It was classic rock cliche from start to finish and a hell of a lot [...]