There weren’t any Grumpy Cats like at SxSW or half-naked Argentine Creative Directors like at Cannes, but the MarketMix 2013 Conference sponsored by the Puget Sound American Marketing Association did prove worthwhile, at least from this copywriter’s perspective. The key to these types of conferences is to pick some sessions on topics you don’t know [...]
MarketMixNW 2013 Offers Up A Valuable Mix Of Marketing Information
March 21, 2013 By Leave a Comment
An Agency In Five Days: JWT Pops Up At SXSWi Next Month
February 28, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Big agency services for startups, at retail, for five days only. WALTER looks to be another great idea from JWT. Next month in Austin, technology startups in town for SXSW Interactive will have the chance to meet with JWT’s “collective of industrious outsiders who embrace uncertainty and invent within chaos.” I take it they’ll leave [...]
Humanity, Do You Take Technology To Be Your Ever Loving And Faithful Wife?
October 19, 2012 By Leave a Comment
PORTLAND–Adrianna Ballroom at SW 9th and Yamhill is a perfect room for weddings and wedding receptions, which is great because the 200 people gathered here for Delight 2012, a digital marketing event put on by ISITE Design, are intent on celebrating the union of technology and service. As Dave Tragethon, Executive Director of Sales, Communications [...]
Be Fast And Fascinating (Or Be Gone)
October 3, 2012 By 1 Comment
How is technology impacting retail? Better yet, how are retailers adjusting to all the changes that technology-empowered shoppers are ushering in? Seattle-based retailer, Nordstrom, has created an Innovation Lab to answer these questions. Here’s a look at some of the work Nordie’s nerds are doing: The Innovation Lab was created with a simple mission — [...]
Friday’s Keynote at Webvisions: “Whither Twitter?” by @Pistachio
May 19, 2012 By Leave a Comment
PORTLAND–Twitter launched over five years ago, which is eons in Internet time. Yet, Laura Fitton, Inbound Marketing Evangelist at HubSpot and this afternoon’s Keynote speaker at Webvisions is here to say that the disruptive force that is Twitter has only just begun. Quoting Joel Lunenfeld, who works for Twitter, Fitton says, “Twitter is like an [...]
Next Week In Portland, Share Your Vision For The Web
May 9, 2012 By Leave a Comment
WebVisions is on next week in Portland. I know you’re busy making commercials and stuff, but why not push back from the machine for a day or two? Entering its 12th year, the conference kicks off with studio tours, parties and networking events on Tuesday, followed by one day of workshops and two full day [...]
Not At SouthBy, But I Could Definitely Go For Some Guerro’s
March 9, 2012 By Leave a Comment
I’ve resisted attending SXSW for four years in a row now. It’s easy to do when you have no corporate sponsor to pick up your flights, hotel, meals, taxi rides and bar tabs. The Integer Group first sent me to Austin in 2003, and that was a special time for me, personally and professionally. It’s [...]
The 3% Conference Aims To Bring Female CDs Together
January 21, 2012 By Leave a Comment
I’d say my advertising career as a copywriter has been a bit unusual in one sense: Most of the CDs I directly reported to have been women. But it’s not that way for most people, nor are many of the top CD slots at agencies held by women. To call attention to the issue, and [...]
Direct To Boston
October 7, 2011 By Leave a Comment
BOSTON–Direct marketers from agencies and client organizations near and far are in the house for their annual Direct Marketing Association confab. But that is not why I am here. I am here to geek out, thanks to an invite to speak on the future of paid content from the organizers of the first-ever Geekend Roadshow, [...]
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