For the Meningits Trust: www.pleaseretweetme.com  Merry Merry Jingle to you all. 

Down in the comments of the previous post, Dom points out that we didn't really have it wrong all along. Rather, Stephen King, one of the grand architects of planning, pointed out quite clearly that: "- communication is an indirect force rather than a direct persuasive one – its primary role is to intensify a…

Faris Yakob_Strategy for the Post-Digital Age http://static.slidesharecdn.com/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=farisyakobwewerewrongallalong-101203093526-phpapp01&stripped_title=faris-yakobwe-were-wrong-all-along&userName=bdwcu View more presentations from bdwcu. This is the deck I presented at Boulder Digital Works NY: Making Digital Work. It starts from the premise that in order to evolve 'strategy' and 'account planning' for a digital [or postdigital if you like] age, we have to know how it…

Kakumbi Rural Health Clinic is in Mfuwe, right on the cusp of South Luangwa National Park. It is a very basic front line clinic, run entirely by local nurses, with visiting doctors from UK, USA and Australia doing 3-6 months stints. [If you are a doctor and are interested [DO IT! GO ON!] - contact kapani@normancarrsafaris.com for more…

At the end of next week [Dec2-3] BDW is hosting a workshop on Making Digital Work, where some of our preeminent philosopher-practioners will share thoughts, observations and tips on navigating the world, and the work, made of ones and zeroes.  It looks awesome. I'm also going to be there, alongside the much smarter people, and…

Whatever is ineffable about brands, whatever turns slogans into turns of phrase, whatever transforms logos into totems, is somehow reflected in this photo.  I think. It's not about paying a price premium, it's not simply about trust, it's not just about selling things, even though that is why they exist. It's because we are meaning…

I heart signs. I suspect because I love words. [I also enjoy a good rebus]. Words are pictures of sounds. Images indelibly embedded with meaning. [You can't NOT 'read' a word if you 'see' it, if you understand the language and the meaning.]  And signs are pictures of words.  If you see what I mean. …

We were lucky enough to be in Zambia during their Independence Day – and even luckier that we were able to visit a school during their celebrations, thanks to the Bushcamp Company. Chiwawatala Basic School is on the main road between the National Park and Mfuwe airport – cutting through the village itself.  It's run…

While I'm polishing up some more Zambia posts, whatever constitutes regular blogramming may intermittently continue. In the vein of which, GS&P have put together a project for their local Dali museum that warrants your attention, and thus I duly bring it to it. As I've mentioned before, I think it behoves us to strike up friendships and partnerships with…

Rosie and I were heading to Zambia Malarianomore asked if we would take over a bail of mosquito nets, and document their journey. So we did. Malarianomore would provide the nets, our friends at The Bushcamp Company [where we were heading] would connect us to the local community. We became net mules. [Obviously this isn't…