To add a little hype to the upcoming Bob Dylan “Best Of” release, there’s a new site called Dylanmessaging.com that lets you personalize a message from Bob himself.
I knew this would impress the hell out of my dad, so I made mine a message to him:
The embed codes are a bit tricky to track down, but well worth it.
I’m proud and delighted to report that Tell Ten Friends has been selected to be among the Top 30 Canadian Marketing and Advertising Blogs, by Experience Planner, authored by Scott Weisbrod.
Membership on the list is based on a number of factors including # of subscribers, link count, Page Rank, and a few others. Having been around a while, I still have enough “juice” to be on this list, even though I’ve been posting a lot less frequently over the past several months.
It’s an honour (spelled with a ‘u’ today, thanks) to be among such bright, talented and well-informed bloggers such as the rest those that grace the list along with me:
Go Canada! With lists like these popping up all over the web for various categories in various areas, it’s nice to see that someone is willing to take the time to index all of the incredible Canuck blogs on the web each week.
Thanks Scott!
That is the question asked by a new series of funny videos from Elastic Path, a local e-commerce software developer here in Vancouver. Here’s a sample:
Full disclosure: I am an acquaintance of a few of the Elastic Pathers, and the firm that produced the spots as well. That being the case, it should be noted that the email I received containing the link was a terrific example of blogger relations. Here’s an excerpt from the email from Darren Barefoot:
Hi Jordan,
How goes the Barcamp organizing? If that date is secure, I’m optimistic that I’ll stick around for a week after Gnomedex to attend.
I’ll spare you the usual pitch, but I thought you might be interested in these videos we made for Elastic Path.
We’ve done our best to make ecommerce funny (a tall order, I think). There’s a nifty jingle, and the second video prominently features a turnip. I have a bit part as the search engine in the first video–I apologize in advance for my dodgy performance.
Doesn’t sound anything at all like the emails that one usually sees from PR companies pitching bloggers does it? Exactly.
What was going to be a newsletter is now a hastily composed blog post. I have precious few hours before we travel home to spend a few days with family and way too many hors d’oeuvre. Yay!!
(Merry Christmas…by Flickr user Tio)
And so, I wish thee all a very Merry Christmas (that’s what celebrate in my family) and I will see you all again very soon.
Sidebar:: As a bonus link, I was looking through my sister’s copy of Vanity Fair, and I noticed an interesting ad for Target, which spanned several top 1/3 pages, featuring sheet music for Tony Bennett’s “I’ll be home for Christmas,” remixed by Moby. I thought that was pretty cool, then I went to download it at the link they gave: www.target.com/tonybennettremix. What was really neat was that you can download it as a GarageBand file (Macs only, snobs!) and remix it yourself.
David Blaine hanging in a box to promote Target = 1.0
Tony Bennett + Moby + UGC (User Generated Content) = 2.0
Again, enjoy your holidays everyone, and get wound up to honor those resolutions come January one!
Love,
Jordan and Alex
It’s been ages and ages since I linked to my wife, as she had taken a long break from posting, but recently she addressed an interesting issue on her blog, and it is tied to advertising. The Dove “real beauty” campaign came out with a new spot that sheds some light on the work involved in creating a billboard campaign for a beauty product, in a tv spot called “Evolution.”
The time-lapse effect is especially cool when it begins to show the various changes made in Photoshop. Watch it for yourself:
These are all quite funny, especially when you see them all at once like this. Plus, it has been a really long time since I featured advertising in a post, and I still love a good display ad.
Thanks to Clay of exitcreative for the link and shots:
You almost get the feeling that all of the creatives behind these ads got together for a beer one day…
Name: Jordan
Location: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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