What is Storybrand? A Branding Strategy for Brands that Tell Stories Introduction: What is Storybrand and How Does it Work? storybbrand, branding strategy, brand marketing, marketing strategy, Donald Miller Storybrand is a branding strategy developed by Donald Miller, author and CEO of Storybrand, a marketing agency that helps businesses clarify their message. The strategy is…
While numbers never tell the full story, it is sometimes useful and kind of fascinating to have an objective measure of how much comparative engagement websites get. I thought it would make for an interesting exercise to track what websites produced in Bundaberg are ‘popular’. This list is definitely not exhaustive, and please do use…
Although these articles are directed toward #vanlife many of the same issues could apply to YouTube sailing channels. #Vanlife and YouTube Sailing Channels The rise of the #vanlife and YouTube sailing channels have both captured the imagination of many people looking for an escape from the traditional 9-to-5 lifestyle. Both movements have attracted individuals who…
This is a game I created where users participate in finding social media platforms. It is really easy to set up (see my reviews on using h5p under the gamification heading). These social media platforms are not listed in any particular order. Only 25 that seem relevant in 2020. This is a pretty big find-a-word…
There is not any going back to normal Air New Zealand Ad created for the reopening of the travel bubble BRAND: Air New Zealand PRODUCT/SERVICE: Trans-Tasman Bubble OBJECTIVES: Create awareness of Air New Zealand services to and from New Zealand and increase sales TARGET AUDIENCE: Travel starved 20 somethings SMP: Fly to a picture-perfect paradise…
Advertising students at Deakin University produced campaigns with one to get presented to the amazing social enterprise we know as Who Gives a Crap. Although this campaign was chosen as a finalist to actually get used by the company it was a great experience to create for such a reputable social enterprise. Background Who Gives…
I have been playing around with creating a few piano quizzes for our piano course. Quizzes and games are a great way to engage your audience and make the whole experience of learning more enjoyable. Try these out. You may even like to try making your own with some of the resources I provide on…
This study explores the everyday practices of phone use in university students and their attitudes towards a surveillance culture and control during the time of the COVID-19 ‘lockdown’. During the time of this study, an app was released by the Australian Government asking Australians to put aside their concern for privacy and instead consider the…
This is an example of my work. A social enterprise project with a social media campaign creatives….. In a local regional economy like Bundaberg, digital design services can seem overpriced and hard to understand and as more locals seek big-city solutions, and this depletes the ecosystem further (Ibis world 2020). More and more people using…
In this field report on using the LearnDash learning management system (LMS), I’d like to take you through some of the logic behind our choices as we set up a comprehensive piano chords e-learning course and hopefully inspire other media makers. (You can also check out April’s free piano lessons). We chose to host our…
If you struggled with this then check out my introduction to gamification. Most Fortune 500 companies now use gamification in attempts to engage audiences. However, experts claim eighty percent of businesses will get it wrong because they fail to consider their audience’s motivations and instead act out of coercive self-interest (cited in Burke, 2014 p….
An Internet of Humanity IoH to resist Surveillance Capitalism There’s the Internet of things IoT but what about the Internet of Humanity IoH? Introduction While self-tracking with the rise of the IoT is contributing to many pro-social benefits for public health, these practices are also transforming notions of the public and private self and raising…
There are two ads that both play intertextually on the hipster aesthetic to effectively create meaning. They are the Volkswagen’s Think Small by Doyle Dane Bernbach (1959) and Hungry Jacks Keeping It Real television ad by Clemenger BBDO (2017) in Sydney. The Think Small advertisement is responsible for initiating the creative generation in advertising…
Advertising plays a significant role in shaping our desires and constructing our sense of self. According to Lyth (p3), advertising identifies trends, raids culture, and constructs desires. In this essay, we will explore how Coca-Cola advertisements have relied upon the concept of authenticity and commercialism to promote the idea of a depth ontology and authentic…
Mobile phone use has become ubiquitous (fig. 1), especially among the young and wealthy with more than five billion uses worldwide (Pew Research, 2019). Smartphones herald the arrival of convergence bringing together the formally ‘separate business of media, telecommunications, and computing/information technology into interdependent services’ via digital networks (Cinque, 2012, p,14). The speed of change…