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If you only read one thing.
- Twitter does drive sales says Deloitte study | Media Week
Management.
- “No one wants to be ‘managed’. However, they do want to be guided on whether they’re working on the right thing, at the right time.” | The Naive Optimist
- 5 golden rules for a longer and more vibrant career | Wrestling Possums
Innovation.
- What are good ways to think of ideas for a startup? | Quora
Data and technology.
- The beginner’s guide to Quantified Self (plus, a list of the best personal data tools out there) | @Technori
- Scaling Pinterest – from 0 to 10s of billions of pageviews a month in two years | High Scalability
Insights.
- Reddit and the marathon bombers: the wise way to crowdsource a manhunt | The New Yorker
- Over the past few months, I’ve noticed a preponderance of the word “moments.” | Flotsam
- The future of brand identity: “flexible and adaptable and expressive- something that might be more aptly described as a platform than a system” | Co.Design
- There is no “typical man” or “typical woman,” scientists find. We must view individuals as individuals | NYTimes.com
- How David Ogilvy, the ‘Father of Advertising,’ wrote and designed advertising | matt daniels
Creativity.
- “One thing to know is that everyone feels creatively stuck. Everyone. Even those who are identified as highly creative spend a lot of time in the stuck position.” | Acclaimed cartoonist Lynda Barry
STW Group news.
- Creating a brand: Moon’s Anouk Darling on the ABC.
- Ogilvy banks on animal magic for Nestle | B&T
- Mini: “Vizeum and Ogilvy worked together to create a campaign that is unlike anything we have done with our brand before.”
- Apple falls, Toyota rises: 2013 Corporate Reputation Index released by AMR and the Reputation Institute.
- The experts call it an Employee Value Proposition, but for Ogilvy Public Relations’ it’s “the give and the get.”
- “If we can’t all fit on a minibus, we’re too big.” A B&T profile of Stuart O’Brien, founder of Houston.
- The man that makes the shoe that makes the man. Moon for Julius Marlowe.
- Mitsubishi moves creative to Jamshop.
- Blagger’s Guide to Data and Retail from Ogilvy Australia.
OMG | cool | wow.
- Low-fi laughs and insight with Ann Friedman’s Pie Charts on The Hairpin.
- What is one cool internet trick you’ve learned? | AskReddit
- How to become internet famous for $68: “There’s just one thing about Santiago Swallow that you won’t easily find online: I made him up.” | Quartz