As Facebook and social media continue to form the digital lifestyle grid, companies are eager to develop applications on type to acquire and deepen intimacy with customers. However, most big brand attempts at social apps fail.
I recently had breakfast with my friend Stan Joosten, who works in digital marketing innovation at P&G.… Read the rest
Today marks the next chapter of Clickable, as our five-year-old startup becomes part of Syncapse.
I’ll reflect further in the coming days, but here’s a quick synopsis…… Read the rest
One of this site’s most read posts is about the resurrection of handwritten letters. If you haven’t yet read it, I suggest you do. It’s quality work! 🙂
Riffing on that idea, I recently unpacked (for a MediaPost column) the importance of handwritten notes…… Read the rest
A few days ago, we landed safely in New York Harbor after sailing over 1,000 miles, nonstop, from Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. on my family’s 46-foot sloop (a Swan 46 to be exact). I was with my dad, my five-year-old son Julian, and two additional experienced sailing friends.… Read the rest
The problem with embracing competition is that competition, itself, becomes the end game.
We compete just to compete — not some other higher outcome.
And in hot competition, people begin to confuse what is hard with what is valuable.
Moreover, that develops a quest to compete amidst unattainable odds, which is subtly demoralizing.… Read the rest
