Tag: innovation

Innovation in healthcare will be slow and challenging. In a culture of “first do no harm,” it may take a bit longer to get there. But it will happen… it *is* happening.

The launch of an innovative community website celebrating the Presidency and legacy of John F. Kennedy has our interests piqued – as an example of cause-related marketing and online community building… With the site launching today, we’re eager to watch how it will build engagement and inspire action.

I turn to Dwell for inspiration, for new ideas to populate my dreamscape. So maybe the context made me more “prepared” to see deeply into this recent article in the magazine. On one level, it is a pretty prosaic story about the gadgets and software that connect the online and real world. But somehow, the idea that architecture and portable communication technologies are allowing us to interact with space and with each other in new ways struck me as profound.

Okay, you’re an advertising professional, client side or agency side, on a conference call with people you haven’t met. You want to talk strategy, you want to talk creative, you want to talk budget. But you don’t know if the people you are talking to get it. You don’t know if they understand marketing for a social world. How can you find out if they are a modern marketer – an “MM” – without being impolite? It’s simple really. People who get marketing for a social world ask 3 questions that people stuck in a traditional, one-way world rarely bother to ask or barely understand.