Social-Creature

Back in early 2006, Chevy tried to get on the whole “consumer generated content” bandwagon (or bandSUV, I suppose), with a website which allowed users to easily create their own “ads” for the Chevy Tahoe using provided video and music assets. In theory, the idea was to generate interest in the vehicle through user created [...]

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If, sometime circa 2004, you were out and about at certain underground parties in the Los Angeles Circus scene, and saw someone wearing a particularly striking pair of pants (male or female), created from asymmetrical strips of leather sewn in a twisted, impeccably tailored way, like the trappings of some Mad Max forest nymph biker [...]

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In case you happen to have missed it, Tropicana changed the design on their cartons last month, and in the process discovered that “Some Buyers Are Passionate About Packaging,” as Stuart Elliott writes in the New York Times: PepsiCo is bowing to public demand and scrapping the changes made to a flagship product, Tropicana Pure [...]

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i’ve been driving past this construction zone on the corner of vermont and washington for the past two years every time i need to get to the 10 onramp, only recently was the hard-hat area gauze removed to reveal what this building actually is: a school.   a couple of days ago i heard a [...]

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(not everyone’s a great photographer. da’s ok.) one of the projects i’m currently working on involves cleaning some wreckage from a web 2.0-style mess that was never resolved, and is coming back to haunt the client. it’s not huge, but it’s a template, i think, for ways in which web 2.0 messes get made in [...]

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as a marketer you realize that it’s not so much that you’re really setting anything up for sale, it’s that everything already IS for sale, and you’re just helping it along. so it’s not so much that i’m bothered by the selling of “enlightenment,” (there’s been buddha statues on-sale for millennia, and what are THOSE [...]

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just yanked this bit of rad from jeremiah owyang: my favorite part is where she goes, “you don’t know anything about me.” and he says, “i know everything about you sweetheart!” and starts spouting off all sorts of demographic statistics. perfect case in point about the difference between knowing your demo (defined by the market), [...]

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not sure what would be a good weekend to produce a music festival? should you guess what your community wants? or…. maybe do THIS? if you have an opinion on when you’d like to see LIB08 happen, you too can chime in. in fact, please do. Like this? Share it: Tweet

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here’s your problem. whoever you are, whatever service or widget you’re selling, you’ve gotta reach your consumer. and 10 years ago “reaching” your consumers meant simply broadcasting advertising at them. but that’s the past. becoming ever more and more officially the past with every word that gets blogged. now “reaching” your consumer means you have [...]

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