Posts Tagged ‘ originality ’

Oct
23/
09

A lesson from Microsoft.

by Michael Buckingham
A lesson from Microsoft.

Microsoft shows an example of what happens when you only focus on “effective”.

Microsoft launched a store. The store looks nice. In fact it even looks cool. People are talking about their store. Sounds like everything is a big win.…

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Jul
19/
08

Eames: the attitude of design

by Michael Buckingham

A great clip from a 1956 interview with Charles Eames as he debuts the lounge chair. *don’t miss their version of the lapel mic.

Eames designed some of the most beautiful, even by today’s standards, creations and…

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Jan
21/
08

Is there such a thing as going to far?

by Michael Buckingham
Is there such a thing as going to far?

I love originality. Sadly we have a severe lack of creativity in the church today. We copy the church down the street, rip off the latest TV show and we even are even preaching the same exact stock messages.…

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Nov
05/
07

Something different for Santa

by Michael Buckingham

We just sent our first files out last week to the printer for one of the Christmas programs we are working on. We currently have 5 different Christmas projects left. The story is beautiful…but it’s the same story, so how…

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Nov
02/
07

Happily After All

by Michael Buckingham
Happily After All

Seth Godin has a great post about changing the game. For those of us involved in church marketing it is essential that we change things up in order to be effective and heard.

One of the churches we work with…

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Nov
01/
07

Is your church Google or Yahoo?

by Michael Buckingham

I was talking with my Dad tonight and we somehow wandered onto the topic of Google vs. Yahoo stock and what made Google so much better than Yahoo. They offer the same suite of products, the serve the…

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Oct
30/
07

fear of commitment

by Michael Buckingham

After a year of dragging my feet, I am ready to begin my journey as a blogger. I say that I am ready not because I have stacks of prepared posts, not because I’m the best writer, and no, not…

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