All right, even I am having difficulty at times keeping up with all the news, so if I repeat something here, it just means you’re paying attention, well done, here’s a cookie! Soon I have to leave the glories of Alba for the um, gories? of Albany. Alas. Which means I have to figure out…
Category: branding
Branding Redux
One outcome of this weekend that was mostly frittered away in drinking and laughing with friends (fair enough, eh?) and eating bacon (mmmmm, bacon) was that I had a brain storm of an idea for the elusive branding concept. As I have mentioned before here, the concept of branding your work to establish a clear…
Social Media Breakfast–Tech Valley
Yesterday morning, much too early, I headed downtown to the Capital Rep Theatre, host of that morning’s Social Media Breakfast for the Tech Valley region. The lovely picture is from the CapRep stage: they’re currently deep into Shear Madness. Great set, eh? The featured speaker was Justin R. Levy, a PR/social media maven, who live-tweeted…
Branding: Medievalist
Yes, the third prong of my branding identity, such as it is, has to be me the medievalist. I realise that all of my many attempts at branding only make it clearer that I have weird and esoteric tastes that resist any attempt to brand me for a potential audience. At least “medieval” is surely…
Branding: Popular Culture and New Media
I’ll blog later about today’s class (featuring Texas Chainsaw Massacre and feminist film critique), but for the moment (and that’s about all I have) I want to get back to the difficult task of “branding” as we have come to call it. While I’m still resisting the labeling, I am trying to be more conscious…
Branding Myself: Finnish
I’m trying to think about several angles for the “branding” idea, which I must admit still makes me a tad uncomfortable. I revile the forces of capitalist consumption in its may destructive forms, so I rebel at the idea of turning myself or my book into a product. However, I am well aware of the…