our thinking about What's Next…

President-Elect Barack Obama’s Acceptance Speech On November 4th, millions of Americans went to the polls and voted… they demanded that their voices would be heard. Americans voted for hope over fear, they voted for…

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Way, way back in May I submitted my chapter to the Age of Conversation 2.0 about the New Brand of Creative, as it relates to the overall book topic: Why don’t they get it? I focused on the idea of fear or love (which is not…

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Eight days until the election! Oh how time flies. Going into the last week, we’re looking at Logobama.com to end strong. It received it’s second highest donation total during the last week, and over 26,000 Logobamas cre…

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A year ago, we moved into Substance World Headquarters (SWHQ) 2.0. (It’s debatable that it was SWHQ 1.0, but for the sake of argument, we’ll call it 2.0.) Over the course of these 12 months, we added two new members to …

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I was late to the game on the Mad Men phenomenon, though quickly eliminated my knowledge deficit by busting through all of Season 1 over the course of a liquor-and-cigarette fueled week (also thanks to Comcast OnDemand for having …

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We’ve been in our current location now for almost a year, which can mean only one thing: we’re moving. That’s right, Substance is moving yet again, but we think this time will be the last time for a few years. …

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One of the pleasures of living in Portland, Oregon is the proximity to the Oregon Coast... with the closest points being about an hour away, it's temptingly close, and it's call is hard to ignore. Plus, we've been thinking about the coast for the last few months while working on the new Oregon Coast Visitors Association website, which launched last week.

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Every year, thousands of people converge on Austin, Texas for South by Southwest, a music, film and interactive festival. Next year it’s being held from March 13 - 22, 2009, with the interactive portion from March 13 - 17. W…

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A lot has changed in the two years since the Finding Substance blog started... so we felt this was an appropriate time to apply the "do better" idea to findsubstance.com. Time for a refresh.

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Just a quick reminder that the Substance Summit is on Wednesday, July 9th. What is the Substance Summit? In it’s simplest terms, it’s a conversation between creative and technology. It’s discussing how creative a…

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