Ten years after, here were are. Many of us are still in advertising, and to us those days of the dot com bubble are as distant as those from the Mad Men era. It’s a way different business now. Some say that’s the last time advertising was fun. They may be right.
Brad and I went to the Creative Circus together. He spent many years at Ogilvy and then BBDO, and eventually became an Animal like the rest of us.
Brad has a way of writing stuff you respond to. To date, his “Don’t Fear the Reaper” guest post is the single most read piece on this blog. And [...]
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Check out this clip from Boston’s View on WCVB – Boston’s ABC affiliate.
As well as this blurb in Boston Magazine.
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
At long last, the beta for Please Feed The Animals is up and running for your experimentation. Some initial known issues:
•Pleasefeedtheanimals.com still points you to the blog during the beta phase, while beta.pleasefeedtheanimals.com will take you to the career site
•The home page still needs a couple of tweaks. Mainly, the RSS feed of the blog [...]
Seems the idea (it’s only still a trailer at this point) about people who reinvent themselves after a job loss is striking a chord these days. Here are just a few of the media outlets that are discussing Lemonade. Oprah, call me. 617-359-8159.
Fast Company
Looking Beyond the Pink Slips: Lemonade the Movie Offers Inspiration for Plan [...]
Career Renegade’s Jonathan Fields interviewed me for the weekly segment on his blog called Career Profiles. Other than neglecting to lower my chair to camera level, I think it turned out pretty good.
If you’re not familiar with Jonathan Fields or his book, get familiar with it. As I alluded to in the interview, he’s doing [...]
Or, you can read the transcripts.
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Lots of news to catch you up on. Stop by PleaseFeedTheAnimals.com tomorrow at 2:00 PM EST and I’ll fill you in.
•The pictured logo won by a landslide. Final tally: 222-43.
•Designers have been working feverishly to finish production of the new site. We finally embraced the “many hands” mantra and asked for 1-2 days from a half dozen designers instead of a month from one. I always hoped that PFTA would be “by and for unemployed [...]
The rub on freelancing has been that typically, the juiciest assignments were left for the staff. The role of a contractor was to come in, mop up the garbage no one else wanted to touch, and collect their day rate. No one got hurt. Nice and tidy.
Then along comes Mr. Recession. For the first time [...]
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Tagged advertising, employment, Freelance, Jobs, Lay off, Layoff, Survival, talent, unemployment
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