Monthly Archives: February 2010

Award Shows. After all these years, I’m still conflicted.

Image by eschipul via Flickr Years ago, I used to get excited when the lat­est CA Annual was com­ing out so I could see what great work was hap­pen­ing at other agen­cies and what to aspire to next year. Over the years, the excite­ment of award sea­son has faded but I still rec­og­nize value they

Time and space shifing — or it’s not about the iPad

Image by Getty Images via Daylife When it comes to media con­sump­tion, my kids don’t under­stand time and space the way I do.  For them, a pro­gram is on when they turn it on. The idea of being in a cer­tain place at a cer­tain time to watch their favorite pro­grams seems a lit­tle ridicu­lous

Getting excited about the Super Bowl? So am I.

Image via Wikipedia With two daugh­ters under the age of four, I don’t get a lot of time to watch foot­ball. But I’m going to make some time this Sun­day for some foot­ball — and for the ads, of course. More on the Kil­ganon blog.

Evaluating Social Media Monitoring Tools. Do I really need all that?

Image by Getty Images via Daylife This post is the over-due fol­low up to this one. It took awhile to write not just because I’ve been busy but because I wanted to add to the con­ver­sa­tion when other peo­ple have already writ­ten great com­par­isons of the social media tools avail­able. Plus there are some smart peo­ple writ­ing

The creative strategy (or lack there of). Making your advertising make sense.

Image by batega via Flickr One of the ben­e­fits of work­ing as a cre­ative free­lancer for seven years is I got to see how dif­fer­ent agen­cies brief their clients and cre­ative teams on how they’re plan­ning to achieve adver­tis­ing goals. Ide­ally, all this infor­ma­tion is boiled down in a mag­i­cal doc­u­ment called the cre­ative strat­egy.