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The Tenth Day of Life-Changing Gifts - Reclaim Your Self-Perspective
When I did the "12 Days of Gifts" series last year, a post about my grandfather showed up from who knows where, since I hadn't even contemplated it when the series started. Today's post was similarly...
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The Eleventh Day of Life-Changing Gifts - Maintaining the Higher Moral Ground
Bob Nugent was a year behind me in grade school. We didn't really have much contact until college where we were both involved in student government and wound up spending lots of time together as part...
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The Twelfth Day of Life-Changing Gifts - Look for the Improbable to Happen!
We don't have kids, something we came to terms with relatively early in our marriage and have accepted as part of life. While it means missing out on a range of incredible experiences, we've been able...
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Ten years ago today, December 31, 1999, I met Jan Harness, my (then future) creative instigation partner, via phone call.When I've shared the specifics of first talking with Jan, people have commented...
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Stop Right There, Before We Go Any Further
Okay, it’s the time for 2009 reviews and 2010 look aheads.So, what did you stop doing in 2009? Stopping something counts as “doing something.” And in a period when time demands are coming at us from...
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When People Don’t Understand There Are Lots of Ways to Be Right
What’s your first reaction to a new possibility? And importantly, what are typical reactions to new possibilities from the people who surround you? Lately, I’m encountering more people whose first...
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Everybody in the Pool (or Snow Drift) for the Brand Promise
Trends are pushing brands into innovative channels to sell their products and services. These strategies include going through intermediaries who resell, repackage, aggregate, or creates marketplaces...
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3 Must-Haves for Driving Social Media
The title topic came up recently on Twitter, as it had at a B2B social media roundtable late last year: Who should be doing social media strategy and implementation for a brand - organizationally and...
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Advice for 2010
Be a contrarian this year - Think when others are reacting. Get antsy when everyone's comfortable. Innovate when you don't have to innovate.Embrace dramatic change - Go against the "change one thing...
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Whenever I Call You Friend
A year ago, a “friend” was someone I’d almost certainly met in person. We had come to know one another through shared personal experiences. Keeping in touch was enjoyable, even if through infrequent...
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How to Succeed Where Strategy Is a Bad Thing
In many circles, "strategy" has become a bad word, right up there with "creativity," "innovation," and even "thinking." There clearly are business people who see strategy as mucking up getting things...
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11 Ways to Back Out of a Creative Dead End
Most of the US has been pounded with cold and snow the past few weeks. Don’t know about you, but it makes me feel my creative spirit is at a dead end when things outside are cold, bleak, and dark.So...
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Not Even One of These Things Is Not Like Another
I was in my first meeting the other day of a group expected to help shape strategy for an organization with domestic and international reach to a mainly young audience. Of the eleven people present,...
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Quit Complaining and Be Smarter
Find yourself mired in an organization (and feel free to substitute relationship, school, whatever outside entity you want here) that isn’t working for you?No matter what you do, you’re not able to...
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Don't I Know You?
How do you cultivate relationships initiated and largely conducted online? And how does it work with thousands of people following you?The answer to the first question is, pretty much like you do...
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See Me, Feel Me, Criticize Me
It's a challenge to objectively examine your own website as if a prospect or customer seeking information would. There's an approach you can follow to get ideas flowing though: Look at a direct...
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Get Up Early
Next time you're stymied when trying to get a creative project done, try this: get up very early when it's quiet and your mind's clear and devote the extra time to getting the project done.Using...
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The Memorability of Creative Job Titles - Guest Post by Misty Stocksdale
I caught up with Misty Stocksdale last fall at a Kansas City tweetup hosted by Shelly Kramer and Laura Lake at Manifesto - a very cool, very dark setting. We exchanged business cards, but her...
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One More Time with a "Little More Chicken Fat"
Here's some variety - a funny video withPaul Dooley (the dad in Sixteen Candles) trying to coax just the right commercial read out of an announcer in a comedy routine captured at The Bottom Line in New...
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Domino's, Conan, and 3 Fundamentals for Communicating Big Brand Change
There are lots of discussions on whether Domino's is brilliantly innovative or colossally mistaken in the redesign of its pizza with new crust, sauce, and cheese. It's obviously a multi-dimensional...
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3 Links Between Your Company and Personal Brands
In a recent blog post, Mike Arauz, a strategist at Undercurrent, raised the issue of how personal and company brands fit together. He addressed the issue in the advertising industry particularly where...
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Important Update for Those With Brainzooming.blogspot.com Favorited or...
I've mentioned a few times about moving the blog to a new website. Well, the time has come!After this Friday, daily blog publishing on Brainzooming.blogspot.com will stop. Starting today, you can begin...
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8 Ways Social Media Benefits Events
Incorporating social media (via Twitter, blogging, video, community sites, LinkedIn, Facebook, etc.) is a growing phenomenon for live and virtual events. Last week included a swing through Chicago for...
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Are You Facing a Creative Imbalance?
Being in the transportation industry (as I was) meant a lot of time spent thinking about balance, and not being too heavy inbound or outbound. In moving things (or people), the ideal state is the same...
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The Daily Blog Has Moved to Brainzooming.com!
As of February 1, 2010, all new Brainzooming posts will be at Brainzooming.com.To View the Daily Brainzooming Blog: You can go right to the up-to-date daily Brainzooming blog at this link. To Sign Up...
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