With all the talk about how robots will take everyone's jobs and basically bring on the Apocalypse, it's not hard to get worried. The robots haven't just landed in the workplace - they’re expanding skills, moving up the corporate ladder, showing awesome productivity and retention rates, and increasingly shoving aside their human counterparts. One multi-tasker bot, from Momentum Machines, can make (and flip) a gourmet hamburger in 10 seconds and could soon replace an entire McDonalds crew. A … [Read more...] about Consider the human side of robots
Humour
Humour debunks marketing myths for Adobe
Intelligent humour that doesn't patronize and isn't condescending - it just makes you laugh - surely must be a Holy Grail for marketers when designing their campaigns. If something makes you laugh, particularly because you can identify in some way with the situation portrayed, you're more likely to remember what made you laugh; and, from a brand marketing perspective, you're more likely to talk about it, share your comments online and tell your friends. If it's a video, you have a good … [Read more...] about Humour debunks marketing myths for Adobe
Humour in Adobe’s Cloud
Buzzwords, precision in analytics and measuring ROI are topics featuring in a trio of humorous online videos that software maker Adobe has been using to raise awareness of key aspects of its Marketing Cloud product and drive traffic to its website. Launched in October 2012, the Adobe Marketing Cloud is an integrated set of analytics, social, advertising, targeting, and web experience management solutions with a real-time dashboard that brings together everything you need from your campaigns … [Read more...] about Humour in Adobe’s Cloud
Don’t be like the pointy-haired boss
Big data. The cloud. Actionable analytics. Three phrases that have crept into the business lexicon and that are bandied about freely in many workplaces, sometimes by people who do broadly understand their meanings but more frequently by some (especially managers) who want to impress their co-workers, seem cool by using the latest lingo, or employ a little control freakery because it's in their nature to do so. There is some reality behind the humour displayed in today's Dilbert comic strip … [Read more...] about Don’t be like the pointy-haired boss
The secrets of making viral videos
Outsource the clickers, create outreach programmes for the elderly, stimulate your kids' clicking smarts with school clicking programmes. Making a viral video used to take a lot of work, says Buyral. "How can people go viraler and viraler?" they ask. And give you the answers. And check out the CL-app (say it quickly) for your iPhone. Now anyone can do it. And who knows, soon you'll have the viralest video - and no need for viewers any more to get that virality! Go! (Via +Keith Childs … [Read more...] about The secrets of making viral videos
Humour’s a funny thing
What's funny to you or I may not be to anyone else. Case in point - SpecSavers' press ad in the UK today over the Korean flag mixup at #London2012. I can see the humour certainly. But I wonder how the Koreas might especially with both flags portrayed together like that. Pretty sensitive issues for both, especially North Korea. Embedded Link Specsavers ad seizes on Korea flag fiasco | Advertising news | Campaign Specsavers ad seizes on Korea flag fiasco. Campaign, first for … [Read more...] about Humour’s a funny thing
The definition of management
According to Dilbert. Love the humour, which reminds me of a workplace culture I experienced a previous life or two ago. No trust at all. Mind you, employee behaviours didn't help. And leadership was dysfunctional, at best. All a virtuous circle, though - management didn't trust employees; employees cared little about their work because management didn't trust them, didn't seem to care about them... How different it all could have been. How's your workplace? Familiar sounding or an … [Read more...] about The definition of management
Bingo!
+McKinsey & Company has a good assessment of social media in their quarterly journal article "Demystifying social media." The chart you see here shows a visual representation of key points in the article. It's good and something I would guess will make its way into the PowerPoint decks of anyone doing a presentation to the C-Suite. But I pray its title doesn't catch on as a snappy descriptor for what social media is: "Social media enables targeted marketing responses at individual … [Read more...] about Bingo!