Wednesday, March 10, 2010

emotionally intelligent post-it note

emotionally intelligent post-it note

February 23, 2010 by Jonathan Nguyen · Comments 

i was reminded of one of my favourite pecha kucha presentations on youtube when i received this note on my motorcycle. i happily obliged.
who says interesting communication can only exist online?

always the critic

always the critic

February 7, 2010 by Jonathan Nguyen · Comments 

first up, happy new year! it was a much needed break but i’ve had to hit the ground running it’s been one helluva start with work extremely busy.
over my break i consumed a lot of media but didn’t do much contribution. i did a lot of thinking and introspection and have come to a resolution: [...]

why men shouldn’t write advice columns

why men shouldn’t write advice columns

November 27, 2009 by Jonathan Nguyen · Comments 

speaks for itself really.

thief caught with pants down

thief caught with pants down

November 24, 2009 by Jonathan Nguyen · Comments 

this piece of solid gold arrived today and brightened my afternoon. yes it’s Schadenfreude but hey, it’s been a busy day!
so this guy tries to burgle a supermarket by crawling through a small window, but unfortunately gets stuck, with his pants down. the fire department free him into the hands of the local constabulary. footage [...]

electricians should advertise in the yellow pages

electricians should advertise in the yellow pages

November 24, 2009 by Jonathan Nguyen · Comments 

confession: i haven’t used the yellowpages in years. at least the yellow book anyway. everything’s online. why let my fingers do the walking when i can let them do the tap tap tap dancing?
well it occurred to me that a pure online strategy for the yellow pages wouldn’t work. what if the electricity was out? [...]

issues and crisis management in social media

issues and crisis management in social media

November 20, 2009 by Jonathan Nguyen · Comments 

a tale of two craigs
craig badings and craig pearce colleague and ex-colleague here at ogilvy were discussing issues and crisis management over on mr pearce’s blog. given that they were talking about a conversation we’d had i thought i throw in my two cents worth.
let me preface this by saying the gentlemen mentioned are seasoned [...]

end the membership card madness!

end the membership card madness!

November 19, 2009 by Jonathan Nguyen · Comments 

i don’t carry all my cards in my wallet, frankly, it’s nigh impossible.
the picture you see next door is a select of the cards sitting in my “too much to carry around tray”. i’m sure at some point they were a novel and interesting way to identify yourself or provide information, but do we [...]

where is jonathan?

where is jonathan?

November 18, 2009 by Jonathan Nguyen · Comments 

i know.
i’ve broken eleventy thousand cardinal rule of blogging. you’re all thinking “geez, doesn’t he advise people to blog regularly?”
well actually there’s probably no one out there reading this at the moment because i’ve been such a slacker.
quite simply i haven’t been blogging here because i’ve been so damn busy. apparently this time of year [...]

johnnie walker… another great ad

johnnie walker… another great ad

September 17, 2009 by Jonathan Nguyen · Comments 

another great example of good story telling and getting viewers to view a six minute ad. via mumbrella.

dear rupert

dear rupert

September 17, 2009 by Jonathan Nguyen · Comments 

dear rupert
it has been a long time since we have spoken, i dare say it’s close to never now, but it has not stopped me from observing your farming business from afar. it appears you’re in a spot of bother and felt it would be remiss of me not to at least offer a different [...]

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