Showing posts with label XKCD. Show all posts
Showing posts with label XKCD. Show all posts

Thursday, July 17, 2008

It's hard to say you love someone (and it's hard to say you don't)

I am currently crunching out my latest column for Marketing Magazine's...hmm...September issue I think, I tend to lose track. So my thoughts are preoccupied with telling the offline marketers how to get the conversation started while delivering a few home truths, we'll see how that goes.

But I'm also grinning ear to ear as I type this, so much good work out there this morning, and rather than talk about one thing, I want to point you in a few directions.

1. Gaping Void - a recent post from Hugh Macleod which really hits home for me at the moment:
It's good to be young and full of dreams. Dreams of one day doing something "insanely great". Dreams of love, beauty, achievement and contribution. But understand they have a life of their own, and they're not very good at following instructions. Love them, revere them, nurture them, respect them, but don't ever become a slave to them. Otherwise you'll kill them off prematurely, before they get the chance to come true.

2. My good friend Julian Cole has a social media framework which is a great piece of thinking, it should be read and pondered and then executed. No questions.

3. Lastly, because I'm in a goofy mood, XKCD. It is a regular web comic, often bizarre, rather amusing.



OK, back to the column. Happy Friday everyone, let's go light on the marketing today and put a little bit extra into the stuff that really matters. Deal?

Deal.