Ideas for good can be very powerful. They can grow and spread at a surprisingly rapid rate. But not without a purpose, a tribe, a story, and a movement. Like Blake’s big boom It was finally time for a little fun. He needed it. Running four startups was getting to him. So he decided to […]
Tribes Connect With Emotion
November 29, 2016 by 14 Comments
Tribes don’t run on communications. They run on emotional connections. Through these connections, tribes create movements. And movements change things. For example Long ago, in better times, a guy by the name of Shepard Fairey made a poster. It just happened to be a poster of Barack Obama. And it just happened to be for […]
A Purpose Worth Sharing
October 25, 2016 by 19 Comments
People don’t engage with your cause because of what you do. People get involved with a tribe because of why you do what you do. As the story goes No one sent out thousands of invitations to the big event. There was no website to check the date. No social media to get the word […]
Stories Of IMC On The New Frontier
April 12, 2016 by 13 Comments
It’s just a hazy, fading memory now. But when I was a young boy a teacher changed my life. She made me stay after school and learn to read. Actually, I was already a passable reader. Mrs. Hoarsley thought I could be better You see, she believed in me when I didn’t really believe in […]
From Hype To Help: Remaking IMC
March 29, 2016 by 12 Comments
It’s time to do something about that rickety, old, rough-running IMC. I mean integrated marketing communications. And installing a few new parts isn’t going to do it. This is going to take a total redo It’s much like what our good friends at UNICEF faced a few years ago. They spent a fortune creating posters […]
Surviving The Content Apocalypse
January 19, 2016 by 4 Comments
It started out innocently enough. Quite pretty, really. Lovely little messages, gliding on the breeze, falling lightly to the ground. Then things changed Suddenly, the wind shifted and the messages increased, filling the the sky, turning everything in their way into a shroud of white. Each message now propelled horizontally like an icy bullet. Making […]
The Evil Deception Of Content
December 15, 2015 by 3 Comments
“I have brought you here to the top of the changing, ever-shifting world, my friends, to be tempted.” “Look out, across time and space,” the evil deceiver whispers. “What do you see?” Content strategies being skillfully developed. Complex message platforms devised, revised, strategized and restrategized. Elevator pitches crafted in one minute, two minute and ten […]
Aristotle Leads A Tribe
June 29, 2015 by 15 Comments
It was blazing hot. We were lost. We were exhausted. We couldn’t fight our way out. And the harder we tried, the hotter it got, the more frustrated we became and the grumpier we felt. We needed something special. Something cool. That’s when I turned to my friend Aristotle, the master of logic, for a […]
To Those Who Make It Real
June 15, 2015 by 4 Comments
He had been siting under that gnarled, old tree, enjoying its refreshing shade, for hours. Just thinking. Pondering the universe. Then it happened. A thud heard around the world. A monumental plop in history. Who discovered gravity? Issac Newton, right? Well, not exactly. People already knew heavy stuff could fall and bonk you on the […]
Thanks Giving Platform
December 30, 2014 by 1 Comment
Teachers change our lives. Some people recognize it at the time. For others, it takes years to understand the profound influence they have had on us. But it’s always difficult to say thank you. The Teacher Shout Out platform made it easy. With big ads and little banners, students and their parents, as well as […]
