Your brand is our business. We mind it well. With <3.
How To Build Your Brand via @IncMagazine with Arthur Ceria, founder and executive creative director of CreativeFeed. Enjoy.
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There are some people who could hear you speak a thousand words and still not understand you. And there are others who will understand without you even speaking a word.
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I believe the Internet is becoming a planetary meta-organism, but that it is up to us to guide its evolution, and to shape it into a space we actually want to inhabit — one that can understand and honor both the individual human and the human collective, just like real life does.
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Be influential.
GET LOUD.
Admit your mistakes
Michel Smith wrote that he sent an “impassioned” email to Steve Jobs when Jobs was considering returning to Apple to help the struggling company. “Please,” I implored him, “don’t come back to Apple. You’ll ruin it.” Jobs wrote back, saying he wanted to save the company, and then made one request of Smith: “You may be right. But if I succeed, remember to look in the mirror and call yourself an asshole for me.”
“Consider it done, Steve,” Smith wrote. “I could not have been more mistaken.”
One of seven lessons from Steve Jobs - as quoted by Mashable.com (via Quora)
I think perfection is ugly. Somewhere in the things humans make, I want to see scars, failure, disorder, distortion.
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Do news organizations use Twitter to spark conversation?
A new study by Pew’s Project for Excellence in Journalism examined the Twitter feeds of large and small news organizations and found most of them use twitter to promote their own content. According to the report, “Fully 93 percent of the postings over the course of the week offered a link to a news story on the organization’s own website.”
Read more in Nieman Journalism Lab’s article, Twitter, the conversation-enabler? Actually, most news orgs use the service as a glorified RSS feed
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