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Caught on Camera: World’s Worst Employee?
Eric Markowitz, inc.com

FedEx’s response to one of its employees chucking a customer’s computer monitor over a six-foot fence shows how your company should respond to a PR disaster.
If you haven’t seen it yet, here’s a 21-second video that’ll make yo…

RT @IncMagazine: Lessons learned from a PR fiasco: http://t.co/axz81F92 #FedEx http://flpbd.it/YgGD

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TEDvertising: TED Promotes Ads Worth Spreading
Sheila Shayon, brandchannel.com
TED, the nonprofit devoted to ‘Ideas Worth Spreading’ and a harbinger of intelligent and inspiring discourse, is adding an element of surprise to its ongoing call for Ads Worth Spreading.Five agencies that enter their 2011…

RT @brandchannelhub: TEDvertising: TED Promotes Ads Worth Spreading: http://t.co/gXgqSme6 http://flpbd.it/jMOS

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TEDvertising: TED Promotes Ads Worth Spreading
Sheila Shayon, brandchannel.com

TED, the nonprofit devoted to ‘Ideas Worth Spreading’ and a harbinger of intelligent and inspiring discourse, is adding an element of surprise to its ongoing call for Ads Worth Spreading.
Five agencies that enter their 2011…

RT @brandchannelhub: TEDvertising: TED Promotes Ads Worth Spreading: http://t.co/gXgqSme6 http://flpbd.it/jMOS

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Obviously, and regrettably, client/consultant wires got remarkably crossed, and highest-level approvals were assumed prematurely.

Tony Spaeth / Identity Works on HP’s disavowal of Moving Brands’s new HP monogram announcement.

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Don’t get me wrong - I like it. Very nostalgic. Very Roald Dahl. But, its temporary, metaphorical nature raises questions as to its long-term value. Perhaps I am being too adult?!

— Source: The Candy Room by Red Design Group, Melbourne

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Dev Harlan - “Parmenides I”, 2011

Foam, wood, plaster, video projection

Dimensions approx 8’ diameter

Light sculpture at Christopher Henry Gallery, NY. Presented as part of Dev Harlan’s solo exhibition “The Astral Flight Hangar”

Videographer: Dustin Cohen

Audio: USMILEAMBIENT by Shamantis

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Pictology

By Jeff Baghai

Posterity is a limited edition series of posters for good. Designed by The Mill’s creative staff and its extended network of artist friends, this poster series has been created as a part of the 50/50 initiative to aid the famine relief efforts in East Africa.

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RT @FastCoDesign: No Joke: Ice Cube Professes His Love For The Eameses http://t.co/PLQIUzEg by @BelindaLanks #PSTinLA

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Sources of Intangible Value:
Brand: Brands, trademarks, customer goodwill, company reputation;
Market Position: Contracts, licenses, legal monopolies, customer lists;
Business System: Organizational models, software investment, proprietary process, franchise rights; and
Knowledge: R&D, patents, human capital, IP.

Source: Why Trust Matters More Than Ever for Brands by @deepaprahalad (Harvard Business Review) http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2011/12/why_trust_matters_more_than_ev.html