We all know that if we give our kids our phones they will disappear into YouTube. They also click through applications like the camera with wild abandon and find features you'd never think they would find. On our vacation a couple weeks back, my son Alex had...
It is a great time to be alive if you love technology. In fact it is a great time to be alive even if you don't love technology because the folks that do love it keep pushing the envelope which means the early and late...
Wow, The Social Media Insider retires! It is hard to believe we worked together in 1999 at Organic but I remember it. This column does a great job of putting all of that time in perspective. Incredible to think that in just 2008 MySpace was still...
Had the opportunity to speak at the Mobile Media Summit at Mobile World Congress event in Barcelona. It was a fun panel with some good questions from the audience. I wrote up a more glib review of it for JWT on our blog, below. Did Mobile Video...
Love this. In the lounge I put some rough notes I had taken with Evernote onto a Google Doc and sent an email to Steph who is a writer. 45 minutes later at 10,000 I opened Google Drive on my iPad and opened the doc to...
Really, if you wonder why people get frustrated and stop using your services, consider how often you discontinue them. As a company you are showing the attention span of a gnat amped up on Jolt cola. First it was Live Sync turning into Windows Live Mesh...
Just came back from WPP Stream 2012 and am in the process of writing it up for distribution inside JWT. How do you write up an unconference? Mark Read wrote it up this way for the Huffington Post. And in the piece he calls out some...
With digital technology there are lots of times when an idea is strong enough that it can be a real product extension, not just a piece of marketing. At JWT New York, the team has worked with Band-aid for years, and has a team that is...
One of the topics we are constantly discussing is making advertising more authentic. A real POV, a big ideal, a non-manufactured reason for a brand or a company to talk sincerely to its customers. The same challenge is there for managers. If the digital...
If you think of all of the types of civil dissent -- marches, protests, sit-ins, occupies -- this one is a new one for the mix. Given the mess of a piece of legislation going through Congress, it is great to see the tech and...