Is Your Brand the Man in the Mirror?

Image by lukas lehmann via Flickr The Michael Jackson memorial service was a celebration of his music and a collective mourning of the loss of the man, father, son, brother and friend. I watched as a marketer, mourner and the little girl whose first concert at age 5 was the Jackson 5. In life and [...]

Not Quite Breaking News

*Beep, beep* Regularly scheduled programming has been interrupted for this special broadcast. I’m interrupting my own programming today because let’s face it most of the world will be watching the public memorial service for entertainment icon, Michael Jackson. I will be watching some of the events as well and examining the outpouring for life and [...]

All the Cool Kids are Doing It

It starts in the hallowed halls of higher learning, a group emerges as the trendsetters and others follow their lead. If the cool kids are wearing it, saying it, or using it then surely it must be cool. Even those who seem detached from the groupie phenom (the rebels) are often reinforcing it with their [...]