Only In Berlin

A brilliant project – ‘Laughing Connects‘.

Marketing Rules 101 – Look To Galatians 5:19-21

Remember the Seven Deadly Sins? Aren’t they basically today’s marketing rulebook?

Evidence –

1. Lust
2. Gluttony
3. Greed
4. Sloth
5. Wrath
6. Envy
7. Pride

Link Loving 29.12.11

• After this terrifyingly bad piece of journalism, a more accurate list of ‘women of the year’ – and this time, no pandas. Reni Eddo-Lodge.
• Strategic frames for the Occupy movement. Joe Brewer. Fantastic analysis.
• 48% of the movies released over the last twelve months fail the Bechdel test. Daniel Elton.
• How do you find future leaders? Claudio Fernández-Aráoz.
• Umair Haque is on-point as usual.
• Small food operators employ more people than large corporations. Tell me something I don’t know. Stacy Finz.
• Remember the Slow Food movement? Now we’ve got Slow Money too. Roddy Scheer and Doug Moss.

Wisdom To Share

After watching series 4 of The Wire back to back over the last couple of days – these words by Angel Kyodo Williams seem to be apt,

“Without inner change there can be no outer change. Without collective change, no change matters.”

Wonderful interview with her below – I especially appreciated someone who can speak so well on social justice and social change strategy with such strong spiritual wisdom.

Link Loving 28.12.11

• McDonald’s closes all their restaurants in Bolivia. John Johnson.
• 2011: A year filming protests.. John Domokos.
• 30 things to stop doing to yourself. Marc and Angel.
• Occupy geeks are building a Facebook for the 99%. Sean Captain.
• The story of Ginger Miller, a once-homeless Navy veteran, who has now set up a group that helps other vets with problems that leave to homelessness. Erica Morrison.
• The case against born-again carnivorism. Marc Bekoff.

Julianne Moore As Sarah Palin

How have I only just heard about this?

If You’re Going To Use Celebrities – This Is How You Do It

• Powerful personal stories – the issue relates clearly to them (all of these celebrities are famous LGBT faces)
• Illustrating story rather than explaining it to you
• Doing what they do (performers performing), not lecturing

Link Loving 27.12.11

• Francis Ford Coppola predicts youtube in 1991. Maria Popova.
• Liu Xiaobo has just been sentenced to ten years in prison for ‘subversive’ writing. Chris Buckley.
• Brazil has overtaken the UK as the world’s sixth-largest economy. BBC.
• Three scenarios for the Keystone XL Pipeline endgame. Jeff Goodell.
• The chronicle of a non-violent protest in Jobat, Madhya Pradesh, India. Alessandra Marino.

Dear Clare – Campaign Letters With Impact

How about this for a campaign: Dear Clare – a biannual photography led human rights magazine published by photojournalist Claudia Janke. It reminds me of the work Falling Whistles creates – always beautifully put together and highly readable.

So far, Claudia has put together two zines – one about violence against women in Uganda, and another exploring the exploitation of workers in the Indian garment industry.

Some headline goodies:

• beautiful images
• adventure
• personal stories
• non-campaign language
• solid evidence base
• links to action
• space for user generated content
• great design

Link Loving 26.12.11

• What have been the top memes this year? Doyle Canning.