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Mark Palmer

Mark Palmer

The 6 differences in perspective of a tech entrepreneur to an agency ...and THE SHIFT

The 6 differences in perspective of a tech entrepreneur to an agency …and THE SHIFT

By Mark Palmer on May 2, 2012

Jerry Maguire: “I‘m finished. I’m fucked.  24 hours ago I was hot. Now….I’m a cautionary tale.”
At the Global Festival of Media I facilitated a panel of technology entreprenuers around the topic of “shift”. In short, in the world of exponential change linked to things like technology, social, mobile and big data are agencies going to take [...]

Posted in Media | Tagged change, entrepreneurs, festival of media, fresh perspective, Google, innovation, media & marketing, music, pivot, shift happens | 3 Responses

Are agencies really awake to THE SHIFT?

Are agencies really awake to THE SHIFT?

By Mark Palmer on April 23, 2012

Jerry Maguire: “I‘m finished. I’m fucked.  24 hours ago I was hot. Now….I’m a cautionary tale.”
Millions of people have watched on YouTube various forms of the video “Shift Happens”. It makes real the realities of the exponential change we are going through – but the last proper version of it I can find dates back [...]

Posted in Media | Tagged agencies, Apple, change, exponential, Google, innovation, Ipad, mobile, shift happens | 4 Responses

What have a cat & a fridge got in common?

What have a cat & a fridge got in common?

By Mark Palmer on March 30, 2012

Look at this picture and tell me about it.  I am seeing the same picture as you – right?…no wrong. The picture may be the same to both of us, but what you see or I see are likely to be very different. Some of us will tell you about the mayonaise, the 3 cans [...]

Posted in Facilitation | Tagged behavioural psychology, cat & fridge, ideas, intutition, myers briggs, weird sheep | Leave a response

The 12 (inches) strategies of fake Viagra spam

The 12 (inches) strategies of fake Viagra spam

By Mark Palmer on February 28, 2012

Thank god I checked my quarantine box this morning. Both Jennifer Aniston and Angela Jolie had sent me emails to me. I could have missed them.
Spam is a funny thing.  Intending to destroy your computer, or hijacking your email contacts to allow someone to exploit your friends, or just to fraudulently part you with your [...]

Posted in Media | Tagged behavioural psychology, email, spam, Viagra | Leave a response

More Orange Dinosaurs & Weird Sheep will save the world

More Orange Dinosaurs & Weird Sheep will save the world

By Mark Palmer on February 2, 2012

My son who is 18 will probably have 20 different jobs and 5 different careers. The world he will live in won’t progress like the one I’ve grown up in.  It wont stay the same. I think back to when he was 4 and he drew a picture of an orange dinosaur. As [...]

Posted in Media | Tagged edward munk, fresh perspective, orange dinosaurs, weird sheep

 Are you suffering from business collapse disorder?

Are you suffering from business collapse disorder?

By Mark Palmer on September 9, 2011

You have no doubt heard of the decline in bees.
The collapse in the global bee population is a major threat to crops. It is estimated that a third of everything we eat depends upon honey bee pollination, which means that bees contribute some £26bn to the global economy. In the UK alone, bees contribute £200m [...]

Posted in Media | Tagged Apple, Bees, Biodiversity, change, Colony collapse disorder, fresh perspective, Google, innovation, Leadership, Nokia

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