Last night a visited Madame Claude in Kreuzberg, Berlin, to support my friend Elisabeth as she played in her band, Orchestre Miniature in the Park (OMD).
‘We are not a sect, we are not a political party, nor are we a civil rights movement. But we do have a manifesto and it reads SUN, SUMMER, HITS!!!!!! […]
“Democratic institutions form a system of quarantine for tyrannical desires.” Friedrich Nietzsche #
“Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonl … #
“Only the educated are free.” Epictetus #
“When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, […]
I would have never guessed that Camille Paglia would be in awe of Sara Palin or perceive her as follows, “Conservative though she may be, I felt that Palin represented an explosion of a brand new style of muscular American feminism. At her startling debut on that day, she was combining male and female qualities […]
I am starting a new series of blog posts called “What AH Does.” This is a series of free-form posts by members of the Abraham Harrison staff. Instead of a book report, I asked my staff to write a company report. While the request was generally free-form and I didn’t care what was written — […]
Markets are conversations.
Markets consist of human beings, not demographic sectors.
Conversations among human beings sound human. They are conducted in a human voice.
Whether delivering information, opinions, perspectives, dissenting arguments or humorous asides, the human voice is typically open, natural, uncontrived. […]
I have been going through Google Docs and discovered an internal document I would like to share with you from back in the beginning of 2007. Taylor Donlan wrote it to explain to our new staff how best to reach out to and engage online on behalf of our clients and in general. I was […]
According to an online quiz on Details, “Are Your That Guy,” I am totally that guy: a total douchebag, apparently.
1 You initiate fist bumps.
Yes
No
Someone told me that high-fives are passe so I have replaced them with bumps and regular, manly, handshakes.
2 You order foreign dishes in an accent.
Yes
No
I ask for foreign dishes, yes, properly. If […]
When it comes down to it, reputation defense and crisis management demands engagement: resistance is futile. Here’s some excellent advice from Local Advertising Journal about the risks and rewards of Online Reputation Management: Eliminate the Negative:
A negative review of your business or product is detrimental to your online reputation, but if it is managed correctly […]
I am very pleased that Senator Jim Webb was able to get his Bill, the Webb GI Bill, signed into law because I have been ashamed of the way our government shows its appreciation to our vets of foreign wars, including the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Senator Webb is right, some of the most […]
Sarah Palin Comment Thread Par Excellence
If you have not been keeping on top of all of the great comments streaming in to the AH Poll entitled “If John McCain died or became incapacitated, would Sarah Palin be competent to be President?” you are really missing out! Some of them are the most insightful, thoughtful, and brilliant collection of thoughts […]