Category: Travelblog

An interesting conversation this afternoon - to what extent are our increasingly instant communications media shrinking the time that we think about what it is that we do? And to what extent does the use of a communications tool mean that we've done something, or just that we've indicated we've done something. A few years … Continue reading TravelBlog 4 – Bad things happen fast

Some time spent this afternoon with our new Digital head in Sydney. It's interesting to hear that clients' interest in social media is now becoming top of the agenda in many briefing sessions. Over a decade ago, American marketing guru Seth Godin wrote a book called Permission Marketing, in which he argued that "interruption marketing" … Continue reading TravelBlog 4 – Digital Marketing

One of the advantages of flying into a civil war zone is that the plane was eerily empty. I shared an entire row with just one other passenger (she at one window, me at the other). For all that modern technology has shrunk the world, flying east from Europe to Asia to Australasia still reminds … Continue reading Travelblog 2 – Bangkok Airport

Through the madness of airport security, and into the madness of airside. It seems that the duty free shop has been learning from the sensory deprivation approach so refined by Ikea. Air travel is one of the few places where (for the time being) you can really escape the always on, always connected modern world. … Continue reading TravelBlog 1 – Heathrow T3

On Saturday I'm heading off (volcanic dust clouds permitting) to visit three of our offices in the Asia Pacific region. It's the area of the world that we are seeing great growth, and it's exciting to be visiting some new places. I'll be in Sydney next week, and then Hong Kong and Shanghai the week … Continue reading Travelblog, Day -2