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I was on a prominent stock photo site earlier today looking for photos to illustrate a blog article on the importance of metrics in business communications. I decided to see if I could find an appropriate photo with a woman in it. I was shocked by the results.
Advertising is quite possibly the first area of business communications that was given freedom to be creative and to speak to more than one of our senses. The use of […]
One of the reasons that I’ve not been posting very regularly is that I got married at the end of September, which upset my schedule both before and after the event, and I’m only now starting to get caught up again. For reasons that have to do with…
If you visit the website of the Loews Vanderbilt Hotel Nashville, you have the impression that it’s a nice upscale business hotel but interchangeable with numerous other hotels you may have seen in other cities. However, it only takes a few minute…
The title of this post might seem blindingly obvious, but apparently it isn’t. Last week, at an IABC France event on adapting global communications campaigns to local markets, a speaker talked about the need to adapt taglines (and other branding e…
One of my favorite events in France every year is the third Thursday in November when the Beaujolais Nouveau comes on the market. Wine experts will go to great lengths to describe the new wine (fresh out of the presses as the grapes were just harv…
I love watching videos of musical flashmobs, and apparently I am not alone, based on the popularity of their videos. I am jealous when they are filmed in places where I frequently find myself, because it NEVER happens when I am there. Our head off…
After waking up from jetlag at 3:30 and not being able to fall back asleep, I had a long day(I left the house at 7:50 and didn’t return until 23:00), so just some first impressions after my first day on the ground. After my first shock from not be…
Here’s something you won’t often here me say: The past few Tuesdays, I have gone to bed far too late because I stayed up watching reality TV. I find the premise of many reality TV shows to be uninteresting, but TF1 recently ran one that caught my …
On the surface of it, it seems rather ridiculous for so much time, energy and attention to be dedicated to a series of football (soccer) matches. After all, it’s just a game. It’s not like these are brain surgeons or great statesmen or even great …
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