Entries Tagged as 'community'

Tuesday, December 4th, 2012

This Is What’s Happening: 2012 Edition

Remember back when I used to be a social media strategist? I started before that term was even being used, and as late as this October the L.A. Times still hadn’t gotten the memo that I had move on, calling me a “social media expert” for my crimes (among them: 1, 2, 3). So you’d [...]

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Filed under adoption rate strategy, art, authenticity, business, campaign, clients, community, community management, content, creative class, creative collaboration, creativity, culture, experience design, Gather, hyperlocal, indie brands, jenks, katie k, Mirrorgram, product strategy, rad!, rockstar tech entrepreneur, social media, strategy, the glitch mob, trend

Wednesday, April 18th, 2012

Discussing “Tribalism in the modern age” on WBEZ Chicago

This morning I was on WBEZ Chicago, talking on Eight Forty-Eight about the ways our ancient, social instincts play out in contemporary culture. Thanks to host, Tony Sarabia, and fellow guest, Rabbi Adam Chalom, for a great discussion! (My part starts at 12:20)   Like this? Share it! Tweet

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Filed under community, consumer insight, context, cross-cultural communication, culture, identity, identity marketing, interview, marketers, social psychology

Monday, June 6th, 2011

Why You’re Wearing Feathers Right Now

Jocelyn Marsh wearing headdress by Tiffa Novoa. Image: Brion Topolski, 2005 Right now all across America there is a feather shortage. In April, The Billings Gazette reported: Jewelry-makers and hairstylists have been snatching up the premium chicken feathers used in standby trout-fly patterns, creating a sudden run on a market that’s ill-prepared for significant fluctuations [...]

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Filed under art, books, burningman, cassidy haley, change, circus, coachella, community, consumer insight, context, countercuture, culture, dance, el circo, entrepreneurship, experience design, fashion, festival, friends, gate-crasher, hippie, hipster, history, identity, identity marketing, indie brands, jenks, katie k, kucoon, L.A., lifestyle slur, lucentdossier, massive social experiences, music, nightlife, party, prophecy, s.f., siouxzen, skin.graft, social psychology, subculture, trend, tribalism, underground economy, urban anthropology

Monday, February 28th, 2011

The “White Rabbit” Remix Contest

Been quiet on SocialCreature the past month as I’ve been head-deep down the MirrorLAnd rabbit-hole. Surfacing for a quick nod to the remix contest that just launched with the release of Chapter 2. If you or someone you know are a knob-fiddler type person, and you’d be interested in having your music become the soundtrack [...]

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Filed under art, campaign, circus, creative collaboration, creativity, culture, DIY expression, experience design, gate-crasher, Interactive, jenks, MirrorLAnd, music, online trend, remix, social engagement marketing, strategy, the glitch mob, ugc, viral marketing

Sunday, June 27th, 2010

How To Stand In the Face of Powerlessness For A New Generation

The ‘Source’ in the Distance Last week, my friend Kris Krug flew down to the Gulf of Mexico on the TEDxOilSpill Expedition, a week-long project to document the crisis in the Gulf and bring a first hand report back to the TEDxOilSpill event in Washington, D.C. on June 28. Kris, a photographer, web strategist, and self-described “cyberpunk [...]

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Filed under authenticity, branding, community, controversy, cross-cultural communication, culture, delusion, events, friends, fundamentalism, future, globalized unity, history, human rights, image management, man-made global crisis, massive social experiences, myth, online trend, politics, rebranding, recession, social media, sociobiology, strategy, sustainability, trend

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