Gavin Heaton rilancia la sfida per il 3° volume di Age of Conversation, serie multi-autore che nasce come esperimento di scrittura collaborativa e di raccolta fondi a scopo benefico.

Each author will be able to submit one 400 word article. To make sure the content is varied and to avoid repetition, we’ve created 10 section topics. Each author will select one topic and then direct the content of their submission accordingly. There will be a maximum of 30 authors per section.

The sections you can write for are:

1. Conversational Branding
2. Influence
3. Getting to Work
4. Corporate Conversations
5. Measurement
6. In the Boardroom
7. Pitching Social Media
8. Innovation and Execution
9. Identities, Friends and Trusted Strangers
10. Conversation at the Coalface (If you work at the coalface, you deal with the real problems and issues, rather than sitting in a office discussing things in a detached way.)

“Per ravvivare i mercati senza restringere i posti di lavoro: la buona pubblicità, la soluzione che fa bene all’economia”

La campagna della IAA – International Advertising Association Italia lascia un po’ perplessi.

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Qualche settimana fa ho visto anche questo spot, recuperato dal canale YouTube di IAA grazie a questo post di Spot&Co che commenta l’iniziativa.

Per i dettagli sulla campagna, vedi Youmark

Nel catalogo 2010 di Ikea il font Futura è sostituito con il Verdana … e scoppia il finimondo.
via Café des Ignorants

Ikea Catalogo 2010
foto: Squarciomomo

Nike Livestrong Chalkbot

7 Settembre, 2009

The Nike-sponsored Livestrong Chalkbot is driving the Tour de France about 8 hours in front of the riders, spraying messages on the road in emulsified chalk. Road messages are a Tour tradition but these are different. Each message has been sent in by someone whose life has been touched by cancer (the focus of Lance Armstrong’s Livestrong charity).
People text in their messages or enter them on the Livestrong website. If approved, the message is sent out to the Chalkbot, sprayed on to the road, then photographed in place and sent back to the originator.

via Velocity Partners

Nike Livestrong Chalkbot Website + Twitter

Da Sales Lead Insights

“When it Comes to Generating Sales Leads, Do Virtual Events Make Sense for B-to-B Marketers?”

These virtual events can benefit all parties. Attendees don’t have to travel, or even leave their offices. Neither do the speakers and exhibitors. This saves everyone time and money.
And the convenience of attending via their computer can boost the number of attendees significantly.

Se ne parla anche sul forum della community di marketing fieristico di Xing/Neurona.

EComXpo Marks First Sale of a Virtual Show (tradeshowweek.com)

Il video per promuovere il nuovo sito volkswagen.co.uk

Via Crazy Marketing Blog

Di Paul Isakson

Non l’ho ancora letta…mi sono fidato del linkaggio di Armano… potere della reputèsciòn.

Ho fatto male?

Report liberamente scaricabile dal sito di ContactLab

L’80% dei navigatori internet italiani è infatti iscritto ad almeno 3 diverse newsletter
(si va da un 27% che ne riceve 3 o 4 a un 5% che ne riceve fra 15 e 20: la media è di oltre 6 iscrizioni per utente).

Il 55% degli utenti riceve le newsletter sulla propria casella di posta principale e oltre l’85% attiva le immagini contenute, o immediatamente (44%) o in un secondo tempo (41%).

Un dato colpisce: se l’atteggiamento prevalente di fronte alle e-mail non desiderate è cancellarle senza nemmeno aprirle, più “rispettoso” è l’atteggiamento di fronte alla newsletter che non si vuole più ricevere: si fa “unsubscribe” e si chiede la cancellazione.

Via Massimo Fubini su MList

Commento di Maurizio Goetz/Marketing Usabile “Perché non credo all’email marketing”

Corporate social technology strategy, Purists, and Corporatists — why companies CAN participate” di Josh Bernoff

“It’s time for me to weigh in on the question: can companies be part of the social world?

This is in part a reaction to Shel Israel’s comments of a few months back and my colleague Jeremiah’s Owyang’s responses. But it’s an ongoing issue that comes up often in the blogosphere in my conversations with corporate clients.

On the one side are the folks who say, “The social world is an emergent phenomenon generated by people connecting.” The original Cluetrain Manifesto rails against many aspects of the corporate world and basically posits that the right way for companies to get involved is for people inside those companies to connect to their customers. Based on my recent participation at a Cluetrain event, Cluetrain author Doc Searls still harbors a lot of skepticism toward corporations pursuing goals in the social world. For shorthand, let’s call these folks the Purists.

On the other side are companies who are looking at the social Internet and saying “how can we exploit this to do what we already do — PR and advertising, for example?” PR and advertising are mostly one-way, broadcast type communications, and these folks continue to try to adapt those one-way modes of thinking in the two-way, read-write world of social computing. I’ll caricature these folks as the Corporatists. …>>

Ripreso da Israel (anche qui tempo fa), Searls e nuovamente da Bernoff

Brand death-cycle

12 Marzo, 2008

Su englishrussia.com una carrellata di foto a lapidi “brandizzate”.

Via AdverLab, che chiede “Do these tombstones reinforce a brand impression on a casual cemetery visitor?”