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R.I.P. Robin Williams, the Comedy Giant Who Made Us Think

August 12th, 2014

Going to miss all flavors of his personality.
Oh Captain. My Captain. Rest now poet. Rest now soul.
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Jingle Bells – NBA Style

November 20th, 2013

I wonder how many times it took to get this right…

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Boardroom, By Intel

July 29th, 2013

Our latest spot…and probably one of the best we’ve created in the last 2 years.
 

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The World Lives On Facebook – Video Infograph

April 25th, 2011

Infographs are fast becoming an efficient way to share stats and data in an interesting way. Alex Trimpe takes it to a different level with this video infograph.  Very well done.  Some pretty staggering stats in the screen cap below the video.  Courtesy FastCo Design.

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FastCompany’s 2011 Most Innovative – Intel #19

February 18th, 2011

Every year FastCompany releases it’s list of the top 50 most innovative companies. Each year, we’re on it.  This year, our ranking is #19.   2010 was a heck of a year for us – releasing a new line of processors that lead to record revenues (ahem, can you say FOURTY THREE BILLION DOLLARS!!!!).  I’m expecting great things out of our company this year, and I’m especially proud of the fact that we are reinvesting a significant amount of money on our own soil.  In fact, that is what FastCompany’s recognition is for – our big bet on domestic manufacturing.  Here’s to the march towards $50 Billion.

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Are You Tired Of ‘Checking In’?

August 2nd, 2010

Foursquare, Gowalla, MyTown, Loopt, Yelp… these location based, social media services have varying degrees of participation and collaboration – both with with your immediate social network and those on the perimeter that are able to see your opinion on services, restaurants, stores, etc.  Location has been in the news a lot over the last week or so.  First, Forrester came out with a report that urged most marketers to ‘forgo’ Foursquare as the adoption rate and penetration was not prevalent enough to make a major impact for a brand marketer outside (their report states that only 4% of U.S. online adults have used location based mobile applications) of a small subset of early adopters.

Soon after, an opposing opinion made the case for the use of such location based services – not specifically for reach and depth of penetration, but for the impact made by the influencers that are participating on a regular basis.  These influencers have the ability to amplify their small sample size greatly by distributing through their larger than average social presence. For example – a Foursquare user that connects his or her ‘check-in’ with their Twitter Feed or Facebook account has the ability to distribute a potential brand message much wider than if they did not tie into those services.  From my vantage point, I think you’ll see brands leverage services like Foursquare in a way that mimics what Old Spice did with YouTube and Twitter – targeting those celebrity and  power users with a large social presence and tailoring specific message to them in an effort to extend the Old Spice brand through affiliation with their famous personas.  Very clever, very viral, and exceedingly simple to do – the first time.

But will we get tired of sharing our information and whereabouts with our social graph?  Is there also a limit to ‘what’ people are actually willing to check-in to?  Many of us understand the benefit of checking into a restaurant, an airport, or an activity like a concert – as humans, we are social by nature and have a penchant for sharing the fun things we are doing with our friends.  We are seeing more and more, however, that brands are building activities and campaigns that have people checking in to ‘static’ mediums like print advertisements, movie posters, billboards, etc.  Where is the limit of our threshold for this type of activity?  How much is too much?  Is there such a thing as check in ‘fatigue’?  Yes – and I’ll quote a nice summary pulled from a recent Ad Age article:

If we don’t tie check-ins to real-world rewards, then we will miss out on a great opportunity to affect consumer behavior by avoiding “check-in fatigue” that will inevitably be brought about by a lack of value attributed to the action. Stickers and badges (even while scarce) will eventually become devalued as they become less scarce and hold less perceived value, and will not be a strong enough incentive to keep people engaged.

The moral is that don’t build a campaign where you are forcing people to take an action that will not result in a real world, tangible value.  It’s one thing to be exposed to an advertisement – it’s an action consumers are exposed to thousands of times a day.  The majority of those exposures are passive.  If we’re asking our loyal brand advocates to take an action, as marketers, we’d better provide them with an incentive to do so.  A perceived reward for their loyalty and their advocacy of our brand to their personal network.  Regardless of their location.

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Does Google Know Too Much?

November 5th, 2009

Google Dashboard is a hotly tweeted topic today.  Several sites, including PC World, PC Magazine, and Mashableall express concerns over Google doing enough to protect your privacy while, at the same time, noting how much information Google does know (and store) about each of us and our browsing habits.  Cause for concern?  According to Ben Rothke, Senior Security Consultant with BT Professional Services, yes – there is.

Google Dashboard is akin to putting all of one’s eggs in a single basket. The problem is that the average end-user is clueless on how to guard that digital basket. So once that Google account is breached/hacked, the victim has their entire Google experience compromised.

For a walk through on how Google Dashboard works, I’ve embedded a video below.

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Fast Company Interviews 3 Intel Rockstars

October 16th, 2009

Intel Executive ‘Rockstars’ have made the cover of this month’s edition of Fast Company, and the magazine has taken an in-depth look at how the company that pays my wage has transformed itself during one of the worst economic times of our generation.  Of course, I am biased, but this is an article that’s worth the read.  My favorite line harkens back to the days of Andy Grove:

It was former Intel CEO Andy Grove — decidedly not quiet when angry — who was famous for his “silver-bullet test”: If you had only one bullet left for your competitors, which one would you shoot?

We’re beyond the ‘silver-bullet test’ in my opinion – focusing on flawless execution and amazing technology rather than chambering that bullet.

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Wedding Bells and a little time off….

May 30th, 2009

For those of you that follow my blog on a consistent basis – there will be some radio silence over the next few weeks as I hit the pause button in my social media life and hit play on my every day life.  I’m getting married today!  We’re off for a honeymoon after – back on in 2 weeks…. Thank you for your readership!

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Twitter touching more people than the NYTimes or Wall Street Journal

May 13th, 2009

From Compete.  Hmmm…Free, constantly updated with “See what’s happening — right now“, and portable.  How could it not?  Continuation from my previous post that only included NYTimes.

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