Bank Holiday weekend and it’s raining. Traditionally, that’s just typical English weather that comes along whenever there’s any kind of holiday. But what’s really typical about the weather these days when climate change is a phrase that’s front of mind? It’s the sort of day which I usually see as the perfect time to be [...]
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The results are in for the contest on Marketing Sherpa readers’ favourite marketing-related blogs and podcasts of 2006. A few people I know did well. Joseph Jaffe won ‘Best Podcast on the topic of Marketing’ category for the Across The Sound podcast. Congrats, Joseph! Matthew Podboy won the ‘Best Blog on the Topic of PR’ [...]
A question about politics from a reader in the UK has given me pause for thought. He emailed me to suggest that political bias influences some of what I write in this blog, pointing out the style of my commentary the other day criticizing the Number Ten podcast and my commentaries in the conversation about PR/journalism [...]
Saturday morning in New York City. I’ve been here since Wednesday participating in the 2006 Innovative Marketing Conference at Columbia University. Pretty intense couple of days as Shel and I have been doing back-to-back podcast interviews for Corante – ten so far – all published to the Fast Company blog as well as our FIR [...]
Today is Queen’s Day in The Netherlands (Koninginnedag in Dutch), the day that celebrates the birthday of Queen Juliana, the current Queen’s mother. As this day falls on a Sunday, the day of celebrations – flea markets and street parties everywhere – took place yesterday, the 29th. As has been the case in previous years, [...]
I arrived in Manchester in north-west England today ahead of my particpation in a one-day workshop for Melcrum I’m co-presenting tomorrow entitled Enhancing your Intranet with New Technology: How to Make the Most of Social Media. This is my third experience flying to and from Manchester with Jet2, a low-cost airline. I’m far more impressed [...]
Heading off back to Amsterdam today. It’s been a terrific US trip. Shel’s and Michele’s hospitality last week was peerless. The New Communications Forum was outstanding. I met with IABC yesterday: great discussions. Terrific bars and restaurants here in San Francisco. My wife has gained her value from the trip (just don’t pay any attention [...]
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