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October's Top Blogging

Action speaks louder

Karl Lagerfeld and Creativity

You and the research agency

Transformation design

Death of memory

Design and the environment

Advertising grows the economy

Where have all the heroes gone?

Misreading big events

White swans

Product attachment as sustainability

Creative briefing

The mediocre middle

Applied green

Branding: life after death

Are brand ideas too big for advertising

Micro provenance

The key to social media: be useful

The difference between incubation and procrastination

Stop treating us like sheep

Work backwards to the answer

Hire misfits and goad them to fight

What's the green reality?

Breaking codes

Politics and planning

September's Top Blogging

Want vs should

Learning from TV idents

Product Specialists and Brand Generalists

Why designers rule

In praise of the adventurous streak

Learning from retail

Games and play

Happiness is a skill you need to practise

The need for safety nets

A lessening manifesto

The need for interesting experiences

A blogging cartooon (just because it made me laugh!)

The anaesethetic of the familiar

End of Advertising as we know it

Creating a lovebrand (that's 3 for Olivier, if I gave a prize he would get it!)

The impact of sight on taste

Lessons from Lush

What Chimpanzees Can Teach Us About Economics

A brand is a memory not from the brand

Problems in a new media world

Have An Attitude Not An Ad

When Collaboration Isn't Helpful

Welcome to the Velocity Age

August's Top Blogging

Things which have tickled my fancy in the last 30 days...

Lubricants of reason

Recruiting for the future

Are you a synthesiser

The future of agencies

What's the use of positioning

Pre-school branding

Targeted or made

Paradigm in crisis

The spillover effect

The image of Joy Division

Who's spending where

Types of play

Exemplars of 'getting it'

How not to give creative feedback

The marketing spiral

Gaming and storytelling

The generic loop trap

The 'don't buy' button

Nasty planning

Marketing 2.0 is rubbish

July's Top Blogging

Whilst I seem to be up and running nicely on the blogging front over at J1ST now, I'm afraid I haven't found time for much posting here. So I'm afraid you'll have make do with some choice cuts from elsewhere that you may have missed from July...

Interestingness

Brand DNA

Care about it

Brand monologue

Quant research tips

An innocent tone of voice

Navigational metaphors

Why psychology is wrong (pt.1)

Why psychology is wrong (pt.2)

The nine best storylines

Is 'green' a fad

Questionnaire design

Super normal brands

Redefining luxury

Charting company performance

The average Britain

The McNamara Fallacy

Seven levels of change

June's Top Blogging

A bit on the slim side this month, which is more a comment on my ability to keep up than on the quality of what's being written...

Big idea, small idea

Sci fi and account planning

The cult of the brand

Green posturing

Simplification inhibits innovation

Planners as rockstars (but obviously!)

Is experience overrated?

Upside down opportunity

How markets change

About quant research

If it's wrong...speak up

You can't buy reputation

Kids and money

The language of colour

May's Top Blogging

The 0.16% rule

Careful carelessness

Branding for virgins (pt.1)

Branding for virgins (pt.2)

Storytelling poker

The ideas process

Annoy customers at your own risk

Behavioural engineering

Who are your customers

Pre-testing (pt.1)

Pre-testing (pt.2)

Random copying

Making the complex simple

Appearance vs. velocity

Brainstorming mediocrity

How to find a strategy

The price question

Low impact ethics

Pundits are always wrong

One, a few, most or all

April's Top Blogging

As promised, at little more succinct this time round...

Imagination alters your brain

In praise of the unpredictable

When brands fall down

Free is not a benefit

My strategy is showing

Born to pun

Buying pain

Ideas

Heroes raises the bar

The audience (revisited)

Be different

Building blocks of the social web

The digital water cooler

Time for a bit of rough

Batman on brands

Bruce Lee branding

The beautiful coincidence

Voyeurs not creators

The environment is cool

Succinct positioning

Lonely society

Changing the world

Unsustainable = addiction

Planning basics

Planning and swimming

March's Top Blogging (UPDATED)

(Hmm. As JG say in his comment below, a 'bumper' crop. Which may well be a euphemism for 'too many'. Which it probably is. I didn't count. Think from now on I may well have to be a bit more ruthless in my choices - Top 20 for the month maybe)

This month, I offer up the following for your delectation and delight...

Greatness in customer service

Authenticity vs. size

Growing up on video games

Death of CRM

Tips on storytelling

Eddie Izzard on advertising

Seven levels of connection

The myth of market share

Data dump

Mind priming

Global energies

Care about your product

Tyranny of the explicit

How many stories are there?

Forest fires

Online awesomeness

The R in CSR

Bite-sized life

Is Twitter too good

The enemies of design

Advertising prog rock

Culture or conditioning

Tricky customer

McJobs: right or wrong

Post-Cluetrain reality

Green marketing

Pain, fear and vicarious learning

On workshops

Huxley on-pretesting

Predictive ad testing

Advertising and design: separated by common language

New rules for brands

Bright green

Cultural contradictions

256 pixel brand identity

February's Top Blogging

Choice cuts for Feb...

Planning & puzzling

Cloudiness

What is an insight

Lessons from food science

Less is more missions

Active persuasion

Brand vs. strand

The BBC's 15 web principles

Eduction marketing (and vice versa)

Blurry ideas

A Second Life view

Real research

User control

15 steps to meaning

Get a job

Death of zero sum (which goes as a pair with...)

Dove lessons

Tapping into enthusiasm

Dumb connections

Things to remember about trends

Dynamics of creativity

Bad marriages

January's Top Blogging

Here's this month's choice cuts (at least as far as I'm concerned). And it's a big one...

Learning by gaming

Scans predict buying behaviour

Brand beliefs

Celebrity fatigue

Heelys: fad with a future?

Socially constructed reality

The dumbness of crowds

Do less innovation

Wired's tech trends

Authentic vs. genuine

Remembering the future

Simple living

No agency of the year

True believers

Notes on blogging

Is blogging killing planning (tho I'm sure you've all read it by now!)

Brand spirituality

Managing brand portfolios

What sticks

Palaeolithic wisdom

More ideas, less stuff

Greenwashing

Brand rituals

Why?

A little randomness

The dark side

Stealing

The future is here already