Of Memes and Marketing

Passion Plays | Social Instigation | Social Observations | Uncategorized
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A meme is an idea, behavior or style that spreads from person to person within a culture. While genes transmit biological information, memes are said to transmit ideas and belief information. A meme acts as a unit for carrying cultural ideas, symbols or practices, which can be transmitted from one mind to another through writing, speech, gestures, rituals or other imitable phenomena (via Wikipedia). Memes are the backbone of marketing communications. That said, there is…

P5: Where you at?

Just Cause it's Cool | Passion Plays
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Pizzicato 5 were one of my favorite bands back in the 90s. Like a lot of my favorite bands they managed to evoke retro-cool (and I love the mod 60s) while feeling very much of the moment. Twiggy was just a silly song that sounded great loud with a tacky cocktail in a room filled with orange naugahyde. /enjoy

Animal House and the Archtyping of Social Brands

Brand Building | Passion Plays | Peer Power | Social Instigation | Social Observations
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Brands are often an unwelcome presence on social media platforms. They tend to interrupt conversations with blatant sales pitches. They then often ask for information we don’t deem them entitled to receive. Our email addresses. Answers to incessantly dry, pedantic surveys. Urgent commands to pimp their promotions to our friends. You get the idea. When it comes to social media, many brands and the companies that run them could use an etiquette primer. But where…

Social Instigation JAMS!

Passion Plays | Peer Power | Social Instigation | Social Observations
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A little musical Social Instigation — Love some of the mash-ups being created from individual musician’s YouTube videos. The individual parts are cool, but the sum JAMS! Thx to @brianwaka for sharing.

The Passion of the Product

Brand Building | Passion Plays | Purpose Driven
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We just spent a few days at the Natural Product Expo West trade show in Anaheim. I’ve always been a fan of this show. It’s a chance to meet tons of people who do what they love- create products that are good for you, good for the environment and are often unique. Many of these products go on to grow into major brands-  Amy’s Kitchen or Kashi are two that come to mind. This trade…

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