Here’s a good article on how to ensure that your website investment brings healthy returns:Make Your Website Work For You via BusinessWeek

Great stuff to think about when designing websites.

The 10 Commandments of Web Design via BusinessWeek.com

Very fascinating developments for bloggers, content owners and, especially, content-aggregators out there… the rise (and potential threat?) of Content Recognition Systems.

Bloggers: Big Media Is Watching via BusinessWeek.com

Here’s a good case study for Malaysian business owners and managers to learn about branding, “Successful branding drives BKP’s property development success” (The Edge Financial Daily, 25 Sept. 2007, p. 8).  

A few thoughts to think about:

  1. Branding is more than just a “face lift”  – it involves the external AND the internal
  2. Branding is about being and doing.

    “Branding through executive (BTE) is a consistent and relentless delivery of an organisation’s core values, implementation of quality in-house management policies and passionate engagement with customers, staff and business associate.” ~ BKP’s group managing director N K Tong

  3. Branding does, in fact, lead to success – sales, etc.
  4. Branding must be championed by the top leadership/management – or it will fail

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This is one campaign I think is fantastic… and I certainly hope that Digi will start concentrating on it, instead of decentralizing their advertising business across multiple agencies, which has only resulted in multiple messages and confusing brand images. To Digi, I say, let the Digi Yellow Coverage Fellow take the lead!

The Brand Gap

July 17, 2007

Once of the best books I’ve ever read on branding – The Brand Gap by Marty Neumeier – is now available via SlideShare!

I picked this up via FusionBrand blogs: SMR: The Next Generation of Press Releases?

Sample SMR (and proprietary SMR software tool) from Edelman here.

Sample SMR template from Shift Communications here.

Sugar Free Ants

April 18, 2007

WWF’s Black Cloud

April 17, 2007

I really like this idea for World Wildlife Fund for their “20 Tips to Sustainable Development” campaign – this one, in particular, focusing on exhaust emissions.

Click here for full execution details