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Dove Real Beauty Sketches: a campaign or a movement?

I love this new campaign by Dove. It features a forensic sketch artist creating images of women as they describe themselves, and as others who they have recently met, see them. All images where created without actually seeing the person, instead relying on how each person interview described them. Subjects were then shown the images [...]

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Mobile disruption: Are you ready to buy with a #hashtag?

Market forces, technology, and opportunity are converging on the mobile phone front, and about to launch a huge disruptive force in commerce. While we have become accustomed to promotional and communication opportunities enabled by the internet and social media, the distribution and pricing channel is about to heat up. According to the recently released Comscore [...]

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The power of storytelling + a dash of synchronicity

I was recently travelling on business, and had the occasion to be transferring planes in Toronto on Friday Feb 8th. That’s the day that Ontario and the whole east coast where hammered by one of the worst snowstorms in decades. Arriving from snowless Vancouver en route to Montreal, I knew immediately that my connecting flight [...]

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8 trends to track in 2013

Christine Day, CEO of Lululemon, said something recently in conversation that has echoed with me for days. When asked how she keeps up with trends and ensures that her company is on the leading edge, she responded, “I scan the environment reading magazines across many industries. I listen for what is next, not evidence of [...]

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Newspapers in 2013: Not dead, just different

As Mark Twain, noted American humourist declared in 1897, “The reports of my death were greatly exaggerated.” The same could be said of print newspapers in 2013. For much of the last century, print media organizations have staked their revenue success on the business of selling readers to advertisers. Circulation, readers per copy and time [...]

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Will we ‘Graph Search’ instead of Google search soon?

Graph Search is a recently announced feature from Facebook and it’s potentially a game changer in the search category, currently dominated by Google.  Getting people to utilize a new search tool within Facebook, is all aimed at keeping them within the platform, where the company can monetize their presence through targeted business advertising tied back [...]

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Tracked, targeted and tired: Consumer prey dons camouflage to go private in public as a leading trend for 2013

We joke in our house that my husband is a digital dinosaur. He can text, but seldom does from his flip phone. He has no apps, isn’t on Facebook, Twitter or LinkedIn. He doesn’t know what Pinterest is, doesn’t blog and only uses email occasionally. Short of showing up in a Google search as having [...]

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7 Top tips to creating content that begs to be shared

We likely all remember this classic scene from Lady and the Tramp. It’s an iconic image of love and sharing. Wouldn’t it be great if, in leveraging your influence, you could evoke that same urge to share your content by your followers? But the first thing to consider is the reason WHY people share your [...]

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Biggest social media disasters of 2012

Like an accident scene, it seems we can’t resist the temptation to stop and crane our necks and gaze at others misfortune. This year’s biggest social media disasters can be best summed up in three categories: 1. Insensitive: The Gap and American Apparel take the prize here. Both retailers got caught encouraging consumers on Twitter [...]

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Sam Sung a specialist for Apple?

Shortly after this card was posted online about a day ago, Twitter and Facebook went crazy sharing it.  And for good reason. Could there be anything more entertaining than imagining that Sam Sung “Samsung” is actually working for Apple? Or perhaps considered the other way, the possibility that Apple would hire Sam Sung as a [...]

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