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Last week on Friday I participated in a panel on marketing to millennials (the generation born in the 80s and 90s) as part of the Digital Media Conference. Unlike some other panels I’ve seen in the past which can get a bit insular with everyone offering the same opinion – the group collected for this … Read more
Earlier this week I had the chance to participate in BuzzAgent’s first "MBA" program designed as an education course for Agency folks on how to work with BuzzAgent. This is another step in BuzzAgent’s evolution from a model that competes with agencies to one that embraces them. Agencies handle the creative and strategy, BuzzAgent works … Read more
Wikimapia is one of the most recent mashups with Google maps getting a lot of love on del.icio.us lately. The site is a global effort to get people to describe the places they live in the same way that Wikipedia has become a global encyclopedia of knowledge on nearly every topic in the world. The … Read more
Several months ago, I read The Ultimate Question, a book from Fred Reichheld about how to measure your company in relation to how likely your customers are to recommend you to a friend or family member. The result is what he calls your Netpromoter score. The book represents a good reminder for companies on how … Read more
I recently came across TurnHere.com – a very cool website that has a compilation of short films about various locations across North America. Unlike other video submission sites, the focus of Turn Here is about recruiting filmmakers into a professional community and allowing them to house their work in a more professional environment. Better yet, … Read more
This weekend I am here in San Francisco for Vloggercon 2006, a small video blogging conference I have been working with over the past few weeks as a sponsor (through both Ogilvy and Intel) as well as an enthusiastic supporter of getting more people into vlogging. Aside from being the first time that I have … Read more
When Yahoo acquired Flickr and del.icio.us – the question on most marketers minds was how they would integrate these into profitable networks for advertising without alienating already loyal users who were used to an ad-free experience. The answer for the first few months after acquisition appeared to be to do nothing other than add the … Read more
When I was in business school, "widgets" were the term that we used to refer to units of a fictional product in case studies. Today, widgets are those smart little applications meant to be used as small utilities in a blog, operating system or web browser. A few months ago, SixApart launched Typepad Widgets to … Read more
One of the more anticipated documentaries coming up for widespread release across the country is the new film "An Inconvenient Truth" – focused on telling the real story of global warming and leveraging the growing popularity of Al Gore’s "resurrection" (as Wired magazine termed it) from the "former next president of the United States" – … Read more
After much fanfare over the last few weeks, The Da Vinci Code opens in theaters across the US today. Though some early reviews from the Cannes Film Festival premier have been less than perfect, there is no denying that the marketing machine behind the film has generated buzzworthy firsts, from partnering with Google to open … Read more
Non-Obvious Thinking is my latest book about the 4 secrets of becoming a non-obvious thinker - relesaed 10/01/2024.
Rohit Bhargava is a trend curator, founder of the Non-Obvious Company and the 3-time Wall Street Journal bestselling author of ten books.
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In addition to Non-Obvious Thinking, Rohit is the author of 10 books on trends, the future of business, building a more human brand with storytelling and how to create a more diverse and inclusive world.
