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Mad Men may depict the ad world of the 1960s, but the lessons of this successful AMC show depicting the Madison Avenue world of 50 years ago still has a lot of relevance in today’s digital environment of 2010 and beyond. While Don Draper barely respected the world of the television commercial and certainly couldn’t have imagined Wikipedia or Facebook, there is still a lot we can learn — including the mistakes — from the Sterling Cooper team. Apologies but I can’t embed most clips that are on YouTube, so check out the links. 7. The Medium is the Message – While a bit anachronistic in the preceding clip, the phrase the medium is the message is even more true over social media. The phrase was introduced in Marshall McLuhan’s most widely known book, Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man , published in 1964.
Half the fun of surfing the Internet is stumbling across tasty little Web treats that you never would have thought to look for. Traditional social bookmarking sites like Digg and Delicious are great for finding articles and other text that other Web surfers have tagged as interesting. For the visually oriented, the pickings have been slim. Now, however, a handful of photo-oriented bookmarking sites are emerging to entertain the eye as well as the mind.
After pitching in NY in November and Boston in February, we were selected to join the Summer Blueprint Health class and are very excited for Demo Day on October 4. In May, we launched a paid private beta and are soon to release our next version of our Surgeon Engagement Platform to a group of Fortune 500 Medical Device Companies. As you can see, things are going really well, thank you for Ultra Light! Getting up there and pitching when we were still trying to craft our message was extremely helpful. The feedback was also very spot on. Peter Verrillo , President and CEO at EnHatch
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