All the texts I’ve recently published in The Slow Burn have been born from a desire to share and inspire. I emphasize this because I recognize that it wasn’t always like this. In the past, when I called myself a publicist and entrepreneur, my writing was often driven by a need to build my personal […]
This seeking a relationship with God is much simpler than it sounds, especially if we seek Him for a relationship rather than a religion. After all, Jesus’ invitation to Matthew was summed up in one word: “Follow me”. In the following [...]
NEWS –> Festival – Costa Rica Jotabequ Grey, the Church and Tribu DDB, the big winners of Volcán 2010 (01/03/10). In its first expanded edition, the Volcán festival recognized the best advertising creativity in Central America, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Panama [...]
Today we could repeat in Tribu enough awards to be Agency of the Year in the Volcán Festival for the second consecutive year. We doubled in finalists to our closest competitor in this contest, jotabeqú, and a little more to Ogilvy, so [...]
Raising the creativity of advertising agencies and commercial communication companies requires a clear understanding of the forces that can improve our competitiveness, so hopefully some key players in the market who are visibly unaware of them will read these paragraphs. And I [...]
The competition has been heating up with the addition of categories and the presentation of all the candidates for Volcanoes. While Tribu DDB has achieved the absolute majority of the finalists, scoring more than any other agency to repeat the top Volcano, [...]
J.K. Rowling Speaks at Harvard Commencement from Harvard Magazine on Vimeo. JK Rowling penned the bestselling Harry Potter page-turners — a spellbinding, seven-installment fantasy of wizards, warlocks and decidedly British texture that brought her from rags to riches. Why you should listen [...]
One day a week should be a day of pause and reflection. At least one to stop the world and feel. Sometimes I succeed, often I don’t. On the endless quest, taking steps in His direction. Happy Sunday.
fROM TedTalks. Jimmy Wales is founder of Wikipedia, the self-organizing, self-correcting, ever-expanding, and thoroughly addictive encyclopedia of the future. In this presentation, he explains how Wikipedia’s collaborative system works, and why it succeeds. (Recorded July 2005 in Oxford, UK. Duration: 20:47)
Published in The Advertiser in February 2005, attached are some ideas with business sense and emotional depth. This document is especially valuable to every client of an advertising agency. Consider that in his or her condition, the client can make a significant [...]
I believe that Costa Rica is developing a conglomerate of advertising agencies capable of turning our country into a coordination center for regional accounts, for the export of creativity and ideas. If our future as a country is visualized in services, ideas [...]
Pay attention to them: they are the ones who have all the authority to say NO, and almost none to say YES. Do you know any of them? Are you one of them? Do you have any ideas to help them? We [...]
