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Japan – First Impressions

Currently doing a little bit of exploring around Japan.
First impressions have been amazing! Some stuff that comes to mind…

Toilets (heated) with so many buttons that you dont have a clue what does what
Fish Fish Fish – There’s a whole lotta fish!
The japanese trains are awesome. The fastest and most efficient i’ve ever seen
The people are [...]

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How Google Works (ish)

I came across this courtesy of PPC Blog.com via Razorfish. It’s well worth look and covers the main principles of how Google works.
Not a bad move from the PPC Blog, with a quality infographic like this they’re sure to rank well in search, for the FAQ ‘How does Google work?’, and get the blog some [...]

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Brand Utility

Products can do something, advertising tells something,  why does marketing have this polarized approach? Can’t one thing do both?
A brand utility is about: what can I do for you? (It’s useful, it’s a promotion)
A useful guide to the brand utility

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The CMO’s Guide to Social Media [Infographic]

As the selection of social media platforms grow, it’s becoming harder and harder to know what’s worth investing time in and where to focus efforts. Platform priorities may change  dependent on the main marketing objectives/motivations of the company.
An interesting study by Burson Marsteller based on some of the world’s larger brands (in this case  Fortune 100 companies) [...]

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The Tenets of Digital Strategy

Tenet: a principle, belief, or doctrine generally held to be true; especially : one held in common by members of an organization, movement, or profession
These tenets from Mike Arauz around digital strategy really resonated well with me so I thought I would share them.

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Adidas Originals Ad – Featuring Daft Punk, David Beckham, Snoop Dogg

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Daft Punk: Where the samples came from…

After heading to AMP yesterday, I saw Erol Alkan drop Eddie John’s ‘More Spell on you’. The original which was sampled on Daft Punk’s ‘One More Time’. Erol then proceeded to drop the Daft punk tune into the original himself, it went off!
It reminded me about this video which shows where some of the samples [...]

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The True Value of Social Media

Here’s a great presentation that I stumbled across the other day. It’s from 22Squared. Well worth a read if you work/interested in social media.

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Goings on…

Facebook…
’s Mark Zuckerberg has been pledging that he wil simplify the privacy laws and admits they’ve made mistakes in the past.
Information is beautiful published a great infographic covering the complexities of FB’s privacy settings.

Twitter…
Has been visualised through a big bang type infographic, highlighting the most influential Tweeters in the Twitter-sphere.

SM Research
The IDM has asked lots of [...]

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