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A lot of my posts on BDA’s are rants about how much they suck. However, if they didn’t provide a great service, no one would work with them. So today, I’m acknowledging not one, but two BDA’s that got the little details right. Setting #1: Met with new BDA yesterday to kick off a project. […]
***Warning: This is a personal rant*** I HATE being indecisive. I wish I could make a f*cking decision. The crazy thing? When it comes to work decisions, I can pull the trigger no problem. In fact, the joke in the office is that if it lands on my desk, it’ll be live by the end […]
Today was one of those really great news days. Here’s just a few of the better ones happening outside the world of interactive media: Cool / Artsy / Geeky: Ian Cook, a British Artist, paints using remote control cars. Video and final piece here. Scientist creates a Periodic Table of Videos. For each element there’s […]
Every few months, someone in my circle of family and friends poses this question, “Soooo…. what exactly do you do?” This is usually how the resulting conversation goes: Me: Do you know what Media Buying is? Grandpa: No Me: Uh, ok, do you know those ads you see on websites? Grandpa: Uh, not really Me: […]
As a BDA, your #1 function is to make your Client’s life easier. Ultimately, that is your singular goal. Even if you suck, completely screw up the campaign and drive revenue into the toilet, if you make a Client’s life easier they won’t fire you. AND, if you truly are making a Client’s life easier, […]
I got a beta invite to Zivity last night, and per some persuasion, I not only signed up to check it out, but am now writing my thoughts on it. Zivity is a royalty-based social network for female models and photographers that claims to “empower woman to feel their most beautiful and comfortable.” Zivity Co-Founder, […]
When the Olympics hit Beijing in a week, you won’t see any sex shop signs as authorities are conducting a campaign to rid the city of anything deemed “unsightly”. This is just another example of perception vs. reality, and I must say, Asia does a great job of keeping up perceptions. Photo courtesy of The […]
The Big Picture by the Boston Globe does a great job converting today’s news into pictures. I love the ones about the Olympic trials for swimming and diving. The diving ones are hysterical; the photographer caught some great facial expressions. The swimming ones show Michael Phelps once again having a less than stellar start and […]
For the last few weeks, I’ve been contemplating switching from Blogger to WordPress. Last night, I gave WordPress a spin. It’s cool and really easy to add extra pages, meaning I could potentially integrate some of my freelance portfolio into the site vs. having different back ends to toggle between. However, when it imported all […]
A few years ago, I got a tiny, discrete tattoo. Shocker, right? Anyway, one-sixth of it represents dreams let go of. At the time, I was ready to let go of the biggest dream I had had to date. It had broken into a million pieces without any possibility of being able to pick up […]