The Hello Bar is a simple web toolbar that engages users and communicates a call to action.

July 2009

What’s in a boss?

July 20, 2009

Tweet I hope every single one of you has a chance to work with a boss who writes like this about you: Tyler Hurst is the epitome of the modern writer. His career began over five years ago when media was still battling with the transition from print to digital, and instead of fighting it, [...]

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Crowdsourcing? Project by committee?

July 19, 2009

Tweet Worth is derived from comparison. Removing other choices devalues your worth. Competition and free enterprise help bring out our best. Take them away and all you’ve got is apathy. All I hear is great work for crappy pay. If you want to be seen as the best, don’t go where everyone else is. Make [...]

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Stop pretending

July 18, 2009

Tweet Social Media might set a record for most pointless, subjective studies done EVER that also include misused pop culture references. Jeremiah Owyang is the king of this. Do you even know what punk’d means? They didn’t get punk’d by a damn thing, and these incidents were far, far less widespread than people like Owyang [...]

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Alaska Air, your phone service sucks (but you fixed it)

July 15, 2009

Tweet It was a simple problem. I have a roundtrip ticket from Phoenix to Seattle, leaving July 24 and returning August 1. Since I’m headed to New York in August, I wanted to change my August 1 flight and fly from Seattle to New York (Newark, actually) on August 2. Seems simple, right? Not really. [...]

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Advertising: becoming irrelevant (is dead)

July 14, 2009

Tweet Dear advertising/marketing people: Your model is broken. The fact you even have a model is wrong. Your idea of metrics is irrelevant. Your arguments are poorly* thought out. You attempt to improve, yet you only consolidate. You claim to do things differently, yet you still participate in cattle calls. You have failed to realize [...]

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Whether rumors or stolen, nothing is off-limits for TechCrunch

July 14, 2009

Tweet Way to go, Michael Arrington. What is this, a tabloid? Your process journalism explanation is nothing but completely BS and you know it. You’re just lazy and want to be first. Say you receive stolen documents. Do you shred them? Do you write about but not publish them? Do you publish some of them [...]

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Newsletter from Ad2Phoenix

July 13, 2009

Tweet Newsletter lifted from Ad2Phoenix email. Didn’t exist in blog form. World Without Advertising?! By: Amy Juneau A recent survey of people outside of the advertising industry has deemed our profession irrelevant! The services that advertising pros provide turn the wheels of commerce faster than if there were no ads or coupons/discounts on Happy Hours, [...]

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Forget the medium, focus on the message

July 13, 2009

Tweet If your organization can’t communicate effectively using 50-year-old tools, then Social Media won’t help (@chadarizona). Viral videos don’t work, people. Neither does engaging on Facebook or gaining followers on Twitter. Blogging either. This assumes, of course, that you’re the type of business who never talks to their customers. Take Apple. Long known for their [...]

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Gangplank: an idea, not a building

July 12, 2009

Tweet Communities require a sense of place. Communities require good people. Communities require a certain kind of attitude. Combine that with businesses that have something to sell and you have something special. Gangplank is the embodiment of everything above. It’s inclusive, it’s useful and it’s spreading. If you don’t get it, stop thinking of it [...]

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The DoucheOff

July 10, 2009

Tweet The rules were simple. Be the biggest douchebag you can at Singles Night. And then one of us dropped out, no doubt after seeing my outfit (no attitude adjustment needed for me on this one, just the clothes). Much props to Charles Goffnett and BrandXStore for getting this shirt done on the fly. Shorts [...]

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