NGAGE Talks to Scientists and the FBI for Creative Inspiration
Looks to Outside Experts for Insight and Innovation
ST. LOUIS (September 29, 2009) – Bringing in a world-renowned scientist generally isn’t too high on the list of guest speakers at most digital advertising agencies. Nor is the head of the FBI’s Cybercrime Unit. But that’s just what the [...]
September 29, 2009
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We have created a speakers series at NGAGE called Brainfuel. The remaining 2009 calendar is already booked with a who’s who list of leading scientists and social advocates (all on the front lines of the digital space). Today, we had an FBI Special Agent talking to our team about the frightening world of cyber crime. [...]
September 15, 2009
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Ephphatha is Aramaic and whose meaning is “Be opened”
This word was recently used in a religious context and immediately resonated with me on several levels. I am almost a tortured soul as it relates to opening my mind to see the world (my business in particular) from all possible vantage points. Knowing that our future depends on [...]
September 7, 2009
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How come I am so much more interested in Context vs. Content? The latest social media statistics or meandering rants about this/that are the underbelly of web 2.0 in my opinion (me so guilty see below). I find my fav blogs are those that are more philosophical in nature, more retrospective. Find me [...]
September 6, 2009
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Our Hardees French Me team did an incredible job during the AllStar Game.
July 15, 2009
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The average tenure for a Chief Marketing Officer range from 18 months to 23 months depending on which report you read. The five-month differential notwithstanding, your rank and file CMO seems to be on the hot seat from day one. Only 14 percent of the world’s top brand CMO’s have been with their companies for [...]
May 4, 2009
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My blogging has taken a backseat to more pressing issues: A new client, personnel changes, an RFP, various client meetings, an old employee stopping by and (my fav) our new server taking a 4 hour nap. Anyhow, I pulled down my browser history tab and wanted to cut/paste a few sites I visited today:
Honkiat.Com. [...]
April 13, 2009
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NGAGE will be closed tomorrow. My employees need the break. I need the break.
April 9, 2009
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Digital Marketing is fast becoming the niche of all niche industries: SEO/SEM, E-Mail, Social Media, Content Producers, Digital Strategy/Integration (NGAGE), E-Commerce, B2B, B2C, Analytics and the list goes on and on. Most interesting is that no company within any of these sectors can lay claim to owning even 1% of market share. Throw in the fly-by-night [...]
April 4, 2009
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Someone in my office was kind enough to give me this book a few weeks back. I have walked by this Chuck Klosterman paperback about a zillion times at Borders – always mildly interested – but never pulling the trigger.
My bad for not grabbing it sooner.
His deconstruction of pop culture and mass media left me [...]
March 28, 2009
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