Image via Wikipedia Well a major brand is rocking the OTL boat – Coke 'suggests' that agencies get rewarded based on value . Traditionally, defining the value of an assignment has been the job of the agency, which tells its client how many people and how much time it'll need to accomplish a given project. [...]








An easy suggestion by Mark Earls from his blog about 'recycling briefs' to support a youth charity. Of course it's easy to justify re-using stuff if it's for 'charidee' but why not just publish and share?








We all need to keep an eye on what is being said online about us and our brands / companies.  The public relations industry has seen this as a 21st Century version of scanning for press cuttings and tried to claim it as their natural territory.  And yet it's just not as clearcut as that. [...]








Image via Wikipedia I mentor a PR student called Wendy and she's finding it hard to get a job. I sent her a link to the Shine Communicaiton s blog where an intern was so impressed with the company that she started a blog all about them…. and that got me thinking about how Wendy [...]








I met Craig Wilson earlier this year.  And he's written an interesting piece on how Australia 's leading thinking in creative is about three years behind the US…. I wonder whether it really is 'behind'?  Or if this is just a perception from a smaller marketing industry.  I remember the early days of the web [...]








There are loads of great events that you don't have the time to attend.  Here's a list of ways to find out what went on without going yourself. Find out what hashtag is being used and follow it.  Set up a browser window to get all the tagged tweets in one place using Twitterfall Set [...]








Iwent to Lloyd Davies' first prototyping meeting for Tuttle a while back.  Well he's written his first 'annual' report' on the state of the group so far.  Tuttle Annual Report 2009 And it reads very well.   I'd like to extract some fine quostations that iillustrate what it does and why its so 'of the [...]








I have returned from the South by Southwest Interactive (SXSW) conference in Austin, USA and, as last year, I attended some great sessions and met interesting people.  This year I was also speaking at the conference. With the recession beginning to affect agency businesses I sought out those sessions that might be useful learning and [...]








I am off to Cass Business School in the City on Friday night for a 'big ideas' thinking session.   [@Dougald you must come along...] Using the we20 forma t, the group will be trying to  talk about the issues and come up with some potential answers. Founders of the we20 project will be on [...]