Some people reckon the art of good strategy is knowing where to look.
So as an FTMFer, you should be using all the avenues available to you in this great big WPP family.
I’ve recently been reacquainting myself with inside wpp and would recommend you do to.
Here’s my highlights
Some stuff from Bates focussed on S Asia but applicable elsewhere
A list of blogs from the WPP universe
and finally
Get involved you bunch of F’ers
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Check out a great piece on why Twitter is so over…
Interesting to see MC Hammer riding the wave. You can’t keep a man with baggy trousers down, I guess…
According to a new report from Netpop Research, ”Media Shifts to Social,” the percent of time people spend communicating online has increased 18% since 2006, while time spent on entertainment has declined 29%.
Online entertainment is shifting to a small, powerful proportion of social media contributors fueling Web activity through blogs micro-blogs, social media, video and photo sharing.
http://netpopresearch.com/node/26572
1) http://blogs.openforum.com/2009/02/04/creativity-101/
So, this is cool for a number of reasons – it is the second time that amex appear to have got the whole social media thing nicely right in being interesting and useful (if it can be done for a credit card . . . ); the article here contains some simple good advice; and actually the whole site is just kind of nice (if you allow for the americanisms)
2) http://www.samsung.com/global/experience/ices2009/cespress/press_video_view05.htm
the future of vending ? “the consumer benefits because they have an interaction with a coca-cola machine” is a rather large overclaim about how much joy coca-cola machines can bring to one’s life, but its nice technology . . .
3) http://projects.flowingdata.com/walmart/
this is just a really nice way of visualising something quite interesting – the growth of walmart in the US (and potentially the death of the local store . . . )
4) http://blog.futurelab.net/2009/02/read_all_about_it_in_french.html
the french appear to have a novel way of underpinning their newspaper industry – instead of letting it compete with other media they are going to underwrite it (looks like a media bail-out to me)
and finally, a bit of architectural stim – it appears to all be about the design right now . . . go on, design a classroom
http://www.openarchitecturenetwork.org/competitions/challenge/2009