Roy Lichtenstein’s studio, Southampton, New York via Lover of Beauty. Welcome to a new edition of Linkness!
If you only read one thing.
- Rise of the full-stack marketer: he/she “spends long, ramen-fueled days switching between editing .PSDs in Photoshop, wirefaming UI/UX iterations, building marketing pages with product positioning, setting up newsletters in MailChimp, answering support emails and showing real people your product everywhere he goes (the store, the bar etc.)” | Medium
Management.
- Only 3% of creative directors are women: we need clients to demand more women on their business | Edward Boches
- Annual plans must die | Paul Isakson
- Habit fields (and why you need a distraction chair) | A List Apart
Innovation.
- Do things that don’t scale | Paul Graham
Data and technology.
- The social media bubble is quietly deflating: Social-media companies drew only 2 percent of the venture capital headed to Internet-based enterprises last quarter | Businessweek
- The web cookie is dying. Here’s the creepier technology that comes next | Forbes
Insights.
- Remember, you don’t make friends in a crisis | Wrestling Possums
- 5 scientific ways to build habits that stick | 99U
- How to ditch marketing and make friends (we’ve heard all this before but it was an interesting insight about how polished commercials can be a turn off) | Harvard Business Review
- The problem of growing communities: How do you keep things interesting when the average person isn’t? | Medium
Creativity.
- On the absence of art in your life. “Doesn’t being happy and fulfilled mean that the writer I want to be fundamentally cannot exist anymore? Wasn’t that a trade I willingly made?” | Teh Gypsy
- Writing microcopy: the fastest way to improve your interface is to improve your copy-writing | Bokardo
- Screwing up on purpose: the beauty of the deliberate mistake | 99U
- The era of constant photography | kottke
STW Group news.
- Building a passion brand: key findings and insights from our 2013 Global Advocacy Study | Social@Ogilvy
- Related: Brands are missing the social advocacy trick | Brian Giesen B&T
- Ogilvy PR Australia boosts content capabilities with appointment of influential TV producer and journalist to Howorth | Howorth
- Tongue Sydney and Disability Services Australia provide a young disabled job seeker the chance to shine in agency life with ‘The Portfolio Project’ | Campaign Brief Australia
- AdNews: NGen and Youngbloods come together for mobile workshop on July 25.
OMG | cool | wow.
- 10 rules of internet | Anil Dash
- Interesting history: how The Design Files grew from a one-woman show to Australia’s most popular design blog.
- Creepy; not recommended. How to use social media to juice your story’s popularity | Wired.com
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