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January 12, 2011 – 3:01 pm | By Jason Windsor | Posted in Creativity, Liberal Arts | Enter your password to view comments.

In Case You Missed It Earlier…

One of my least favorite things is see­ing the same blog link I saw hours before pre­ceded by the words “In case you missed it ear­lier…” in my Twit­ter feed or inbox. Ninety-nine per­cent of the time, I didn’t miss it. I either clicked it or ignored it. I think a lot of peo­ple are like that.

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December 9, 2010 – 2:24 pm | By Jason Windsor | Posted in Creativity, Digital, Social Media, Word of Mouth | Comments (2)

For Musicians, The New Artist Checklist

Highly rec­om­mended read­ing for any­one start­ing a solo music career or a band as a busi­ness. The New Artist Check­list from Sound Exchange.

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November 17, 2010 – 3:18 pm | By Jason Windsor | Posted in Branding, Creativity, Entrepreneurship, Social Media | Comments (0)

Nurturing Creativity

I once had a super­vi­sor who told me that when I expe­ri­enced a cre­ative block in the office, to pack up my lap­top and go to the nearby cof­fee shop to dis­en­gage from the cor­po­rate envi­ron­ment, or pick up my gui­tar and play a lit­tle to recon­nect myself with the cre­ative part of my brain. …

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October 27, 2010 – 2:40 pm | By Jason Windsor | Posted in Creativity, Productivity, The Office | Comments (1)

Starting a Digital Business

From Mash­able, 6 Tips on Start­ing a Dig­i­tal Busi­ness from the Founder of Pandora.

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October 15, 2010 – 12:18 am | By Jason Windsor | Posted in Entrepreneurship, Social Media | Comments (0)

Scripts

A few weeks ago, I was get­ting lemon­ade out of a foun­tain drink sta­tion, but it was look­ing a lit­tle too clear, so I tasted it. It was only water. An eager employee was clean­ing the sta­tion so I offered him a chance to take care of it. “Hey, man, the but­ton for lemon­ade is …

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September 24, 2010 – 8:27 am | By Jason Windsor | Posted in Customer Service | Comments (1)

V&A Logo and Signage

Awe­some logo and kinetic sculp­ture sig­nage for Vic­to­ria & Albert Muse­ums. This sign hangs in the tun­nel con­nect­ing the museum and the South Kens­ing­ton tube sta­tion in Lon­don. Designed by Troika, where they call it Palindrome.

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September 8, 2010 – 8:40 am | By Jason Windsor | Posted in Branding, Digital, Liberal Arts | Comments (0)

Think Different

The Think Dif­fer­ent cam­paign (gram­mat­i­cal woes notwith­stand­ing), was a mar­ket­ing tour de force upon its intro­duc­tion. So, speak­ing of brand­ing, here is the ven­er­a­ble Steve Jobs him­self upon his return to Apple in 1997, intro­duc­ing it. (Hilar­i­ously Skinny Legs Warn­ing at around 1:24.)

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September 3, 2010 – 12:52 pm | By Jason Windsor | Posted in Branding, Digital | Comments (0)

Put This On, Episode 3: Work

Episode 3 from one of my most favorite series. Be sure to watchEp­isode 1 and Episode 2, as well, or check out their blog.

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September 2, 2010 – 3:22 pm | By Jason Windsor | Posted in Uncategorized | Comments (0)

A Brand By Any Other Name

A year or two ago, my band was fea­tured on a local NPR sta­tion, and we got to do an in-studio inter­view with one of the DJs. When the sub­ject got around to our name, I off-handedly men­tioned that I thought our name was rather generic. This trig­gered some unfa­vor­able reac­tions from my band­mates, but …

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September 2, 2010 – 2:42 pm | By Jason Windsor | Posted in Branding, Customer Service | Comments (2)