The Human Factor
Flickr // Jeremy Farmer Photog I've been listening to a fair amount of Andrew Bird lately and in doing so, the song "Tables and Chairs" has particularly stood out for a number of reasons. The largest of them being a string of lyrics very early on in the song, "

Opening New Doors
Flickr // elmada I've been talking about a lot of things here over the past three years that I have a great deal of passion for. Things like looking optimistically at what's happeni

How to Create Advocacy and Conversation (via @FrankInLalaland)
Frank is presenting a great take on creating advocacy and conversation at Planningness - well worth the view and discussing with colleagues and clients. Especially useful (in my opinion) is the advocacy model/tool beginning on slide 30. In an age of conversation and transparency, brand behavior is far more important than brand language. Having tools to help us figure out how brands should behave instead of how they should talk will help us all move the industry f

Thank You, UBA
This is long overdue, but here is the extended "What's Next for 2009" presentation I delivered at UBA's 60th Anniversary Congress a few weeks back. As you'll see, a lot of bits are the same, some bits are new. Thank you to everyone who contributed thinking to this updated version. I'll definitely be doing more reaching out in the future. As for the