It’s October, and here come the #Pinkverts!
Read moreCall them what you want: “Pinktober” campaigns, “Pinkwashing”… our version is “Pinkverts”. They’re the annual rush of branded campaigns...
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Don’t count Femen out yet: An analysis of the recent controversy
Read moreEver since I first heard of the movement in 2009, I think I’ve always been enthusiastic about Femen because...
Interview: Mike Sukle about 9 years campaigning for Denver Water
Read moreI did a lot of blogposts about the Denver water campaigns made by Sukle Advertising &Design. “Award winning, humorous,...
Commander Chris Hadfield: Making space (and Canada) cool again
Read moreThis evening (Eastern Standard Time), Canadian Space Agency astronaut Commander Chris Hadfield will return to Earth after five months...
Strategy: Laughing Our Way to a Better World
Read moreAfrica For Norway was one of the highlights we wrote about last year. ‘The funniest campaign this year’ I...
Another review for Noah Scalin and Michelle Taute’s Design Activist’s Handbook
Read moreA while back, Noah asked if anyone from Osocio would review The Design Activist’s Handbook. Both Marc and I...
Feminism, Islamophobia, and the complicated politics of global human rights
Read moreEarlier this week, I wrote about Femen’s “Topless Jihad”. It was an international day of semi-nude protest against the...
Book review: Design Activists Handbook
Read moreI started my working career in a printing house. It was in the late seventies, early eighties during the...
“Thinspiration Fanzine” – Art, Activism, or What?
Read moreBarcelona-based Laia Abril photographs anorexic women she has never met. Sitting in a dark room with her camera pointed...
Canada’s long-lost, government-funded, NSFW anti-pornography film
Read moreVia filmposter.net I started subscribing to Netflix a few months ago, and one of the best things about it...
Three things I learned while blogging about cause marketing in 2012
Read moreI have been blogging about this topic, here and elsewhere, for almost four years. I started doing it as...
What the American gay rights movement can teach all social marketers
Read moreOriginally published on Change Marketing Earlier this month, in the U.S. election, the issue of equal marriage rights for...
LA County porn to become one big safer sex PSA
Read moreLast week, the LA Times revealed shocking statistics that sexual performers in Los Angeles have much...
A new era in social fundraising?
Read moreAnyone who has been involved in a social-media-based fundraising effort knows that getting attention and shares is easy, but...
Blog Action Day: Don’t give in to the Dark Side of the “We” #BAD2012
Read moreToday, October 15, is Blog Action Day. It’s an opportunity for bloggers around the world to post simultaneously on...
