movember motivation

Movember is a social marketing case-study bundled into an amazing and awkward month where all your friends look like they've been banned from all the playgrounds in town.

Well here is some much needed motivation, if not for the growers, for the non-growers.

It get's thicker, people.

google fiber. not for your bowels.

Hey peeps.  I've got something exciting for you.  I have no idea what it means, but I watched this video and wanted to buy something from Google.

It sounds fast and smooth - it's like fiber for your internet.



I wish I could name things that Google makes.  Hmm... what would I choose... Google Kitten?  Yeah, Google Kitten.  It would be something cute, for sure.  Maybe a personal classified?  Ehhh... maybe I should stick to not naming things for Google.

you got cookie, so share it maybe.

Sesame Street decided to do a parody on "Call Me Maybe".  It makes me want to have my baby watch Sesame Street - you've earned my baby's viewership, Sesame Street, now teach him how to go to sleep without crying.

advertising america

Happy 4th of July, blogees (bloger, blogee right?)!

To celebrate, lets look at some of America's best advertisements (best being extremely subjective... that is subject to whatever I want to copy and paste into this post):

 

what actually helps people?

If you decided that helping people was the most important thing in your life, what would you do?  I have been thinking about this a ton lately.  What do people need?  Education?  Water?  Loans?  Shoes?  Money?  Shelter?  Peace?  Jobs?  Hospitals?

Money tends to corrupt and enable, necessities seem to be temporary band-aids, peace seems unachievable, hospitals seem reactionary.  So what would you do?  If you decided every effort and thought and action would be dedicated to helping others, where would those efforts, thoughts, and actions turn?  To be redundant: What actually helps people?

Below are two companies that believe they are making a difference.  They have chosen their way to help people, and while I'm not sure it is the one thing I would do, I am glad they're doing something.

geico made me laugh again. finally.

Geico,

It has been a while since your commercials have made me laugh.  A long while.  Remember that funny woodchuck commercial - "Hey you woodchucks! Stop chuckin' my wood!" - no? yes? Anyway, it has been a while since I got a good chuckle out of your commercials, but this new one with a possum got me.  Unfortunately, not because this commercial is necessarily better than your other's of recent, but because I lived two years in the south, and you nailed possums... just nailed 'em.

So enjoy, you fellow understanders of possums:


I am curious though... how is it that insurance becomes the industry that lends itself to funny commercials?  Hey, I need someone to be there for me, no matter what.  I know, who made me laugh!?

watch this, get warm fuzzies.

This short video may be cheesy and idealistic, but at its core I feel like it inspires altruism and charity.  To me the message is that the synergies that come from helping others are greater than the cost it takes in time and effort to serve, and that is just operationally speaking (not accounting for that warm fuzzy feeling that comes from helping others).



So get out there and do something good for someone.  Better yet, make a habit out of doing good things for other people.  Even better yet, make a life out of doing good things for other people.  Hm, I am going to go take my own advice.