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December's Top Blogging

A bit of looking back as we move forward...

Assuming a different answer

Radical transparency

Ethical responsibility

Brain branding

The long zoom

Starting a business

How to do better

Buying presents

Brand as mythology

No more isolated incidents

Marketing enthusiasm

Manifesto for real brands

Needing not to need

Fear & loathing in advertising

Replace yourself

The problem with agencies

Biology of marketing

Brands behaving badly

Why don't creatives blog?

Don't make it look done

November's Top Blogging

Another good month. Or maybe it's just that I'm reading too many blogs :-). Here's some I haven't mentioned already...

Non-verbal communication and the brain

Propositions...or not

How to overcome similarity

How stories repeat across categories

Does & don'ts of advertising in Second Life

12 consumer values for your wall

Paradox of trademarks

Pricing and the brain

Is email dead?

How to sell new technology

Fairness dissonance

What do ad agencies do?

Building brands like blogs

The new folk

What happened to funny

Is it OK to go off brand - a Bond example

How to get referrals

Advertising: a tax on the unremarkable

The Hughtrain Manifesto pt II

Cognitive seduction

Random thoughts on advertising

Viral tips

October's Top Blogging

It's been a bumper month for good posts (harvest season and all that, maybe). So, if you find you have a few spare minutes, you may want to acquaint yourself with the following...

Format wars

David Armano's Manifesto for life

Starbucks' lesson in generosity

Web 2.0: the kindergarten lessons

Why cheap is not a strategic solution

What Pret does so well

The Cleopatra effect

Ad spam

Learning from the Rolling Stones

Mutton dressed as lamb: agencies do web 2.0

Why media placement isn't everything

Jackson Pollock on brands

What branding means

Better beginnings

Viral marketing and evolutionary biology

High School Musical

Nested brands

Beauty is our responsibility

Brands on the way out?

What is digital?

Properties of social networks

Presenting creative ideas

Learning from Wii

September's Top Blogging

Some good posts you may have missed. So check them out...

Don't play it safe

Why obvious isn't obvious

Don't defend the status quo

Planning engines

Lessons from design school

The power of feedback

Brand cosmology

August's top blogging

Some good posts you may have missed. So check them out...

Culture change

Ignore the competition

Brands need stories + experience

When the brand is not 'the brand'

Interesting things

Advice for young planners

Buying advertising

Have a good ending

Marketing like a lover

SoaP lessons

Challenge assumptions

Consumers are all the same

July's top blogging

Meant to post this before I went away. Some posts I enjoyed which you may not have seen...

Negative can be good

Which customer is always right?

Avoid the average

Plan like a DJ

How W&K do it

June's top blogging

6 interesting reads from June, just in case you didn't come across them:

Death of cool

Viral hate

Why creative ideas are a good thing

Brand tension

Truth vs. believing

Grassroots power

May's top blogging

5 interesting reads from May. Well it's 6 actually, but what's an extra one between friends. And I do seem to have conspired to give Russell Davies two shouts (no favouritism intended)...

Fire you customers

Avoid cliches

Be satisfied

You can't please everyone

The 1% who count

Theatre of the insight

April's Top Blogging

Thought that, at the end of each month, I would mention 5 posts I have found particularly useful, stimulating, entertaining or whatever (tried to avoid posts I've not linked to previously myself).

In praise of radicalism

How to tell a good story

Trend watching rules

What we can learn from jazz

Don't be negative