Category: Marketing

  • FIR Speakers & Speeches – David Weinberger at the CMO Summit: June 8, 2006

    Content summary: David Weinberger, co-author of “The Cluetrain Manifesto” and author of “Small Pieces Loosely Joined,” is a regular writer for the New York Times, Wired magazine, and Salon. He also is a regular commentator on NPR’s “All things Considered.”…

  • FIR Speakers & Speeches – John Hagel at the CMO Summit: June 8, 2006

    Content summary: John Hagel, independent consultant and author of Net Gain, Net Worth and The Only Sustainable Edge (with John Seely Brown), spoke on the morning of June 8 at the CMO Summit in New York on the first day…

  • Letting go of brand control

    Leo Burnett, one of the world’s biggest advertising agencies, has urged marketers to learn from consumer-created content on websites such as YouTube.com, which now has greater reach among some US audiences than MTV, the music broadcaster, the Financial Times reports.…

  • FIR Speakers & Speeches – David Sutherland at the CMO Summit: June 8, 2006

    Content summary: David Sutherland PhD, Founder and Managing Director USA of Launch Institute, spoke on the morning of June 8 at the CMO Summit in New York on the first day of the 2006 Innovative Marketing conference, co-sponsored by Columbia…

  • Branding your memory

    A great feature on the BBC website looks at corporate slogans, those tags or straplines accompanying a corporate brand. Some good examples from companies, principally in Europe, of the types of brand promise such slogans (hopefully) evocate and which arguably have…