There are few services that I love to use. One of these is Mailchimp. It’s a great Email Marketing platform that you easily use and have fun! It’s the company that when you send an Email campaign, it tells you: “Great Job Nikos, have a banana!” These are some of Freddie’s (the chimp) messages that I see every day on my screen.

Anyway, the reason of this post is a video that they posted today on their blog. They talk about the story of “Rudy”, an Email Marketing guy who spams people in order to satisfy his boss. For you that are working in the email marketing (or you want to know more about that) take a look:

Mailchimp has also a Blip.fm account where you can subscribe and listen to their music selections. Good job guys!

1. Tell a consistent story
2. Engage your fans in a conversation
3. Connect the content
4. Fish where the fish are
5. Reinvent business

You can also view the video version here.

Flought, a really fun project, was the winner of this idea. You can find more about the teams that participated, here.

These are some of the pictures that I took during the event. The Startup Weekend took place at the Kicklabs Offices, a very cool place! (Look at the pictures)

It’s one of these times that you find a website that you like. You add it in your bookmarks, you watch all its videos, you buy the book and you even buy one of its notebooks. The 99 Percent is not about ideas.. It’s about making ideas happen. It started in 2009 as a conference and now is a website with videos, articles and tips on how to make your ideas happen.

The creation of 99%, which was launched with our inaugural conference in 2009, sprung from the belief that, as creative professionals, we often focus too much on idea generation and not enough on execution.

There are several inspiring videos on 99%. Seth Godin talks about quieting our fearful “lizard brains” to avoid sabotaging projects just before we finally finish them. Jack Dorsey talks about Twitter’s success and Threadless founders say: The Do-First Work Ethic. Take a look on the 99% latest videos.

Stop thinking and start making this brilliant idea come true!

Sustainable Brands 2010 – Where the Sustainability & Brand & Design Communities Come Together to Shape the Future.

Join 700+ sustainability executives, business and brand strategists, designers, and communications experts who are building brand value through sustainability. Join market-making companies such as Hewlett Packard, Bumble Bee Tuna, IDEO, Johnson & Johnson, Nokia, Coca-Cola, Clorox, Nestle, 3M, Life Technologies, Williams Sonoma, SAP and many others at SB’10.

SB’10 is excited to announce key presenters from among the 100+ top thinkers and practitioners in sustainable brand and business innovation who will be on deck this year to share with you the latest in sustainable brands leadership.

This is a great video that presents the SB Conference! Take a look..

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

Sustainability Executives
find new ideas, partners and tools
learn more >>

Brand Strategists
build authentic, transparent brands
learn more >>

Designers & Innovators
better product and service design
learn more >>

Marketers & Communications Pros
tools and language to talk about sustainable innovation
learn more >>

Follow SLM on Twitter and visit it’s Facebook page

This is the brand new SB’10 Brochure

See you there!

For one more year, O’Reilly and UBM Techweb co-produced a very successful conference on May 3-6 in San Francisco,CA. One of my favorite presentations was the one from Drew Houston (Dropbox) and Adam Smith (Xobni) with the title: “From Zero to One Million Users” This is their presentation:

Many great keynote speakers and some of them were: Tim O’Reilly, Ben Huh (I Can Has Cheezburger), Ge Wang (Stanford University, Smule), June Cohen (TED Conferences), Kevin Lynch (Adobe Systems Incorporated), Rashmi Sinha (SlideShare, Inc.) and my favorite Steve Blank (Stanford/Berkeley/Columbia) You can view all the keynote speeches here

Photos from the event:

Sustainable Brands Boot Camp –13 week online sustainability training program intended to get business professionals up to speed on what they’ll need to be competitive and sustainable. Brought to you by the producers of the Sustainable Brands Conference.

Participants will learn from some of the world’s top sustainable business practitioners. Each of our faculty members is a leading sustainable business expert in his/her specialty, counseling many of the world’s top global brands about how to step up to today’s market demands and successfully build business value and brand equity by innovating for sustainability.

The course follows Sustainable Life Media‘s 4-step prescription for building the better brands of the future: “Observe, Re-Design, Measure and Communicate.” In just an hour-and-a-half a week, over one business quarter, you and your teams can gain a solid grounding in the core disciplines needed to move successfully in to the new age of sustainable business. Topics include market drivers, business model and product innovation, supply chain partnerships, brand strategy and marketing, metrics, and more.

If you haven’t yet taken the time to give yourself a full orientation to the basics of building a sustainable brand, now’s the time. Sessions are available live and on-demand.

If you look at the header you will see a new logo for ImNikos.com. Bold letters, white, gray and blue colors and three symbols.

This blog is about Online Marketing, Social Media, Internet and many more that happen in the web. In the web, users communicate and exchange ideas. (symbols)

I’m in Marketing and I know that Branding is very important.. For me ‘ImNikos.com’ is considered as a brand and needs to have a uniformity across the web.

Thanks for visiting my blog and stay tuned for many more interesting posts!

First of all, our planet is not in danger. Our planet is not threatened by climate change. Our planet has survived ice age, meteor attacks and a lot higher temperatures than what we are faced with now. It is we – the people ON this planet – who are threatened by climate change. It is we who are in danger, it is we who will not survive the consequences of our own actions and it is we who will die out. Our planet will adjust, and survive, like it has done many times before. We, on the other hand, will not.

So, assuming we want to save ourselves, how do we do that? I say it is simple; we don’t. Because isn’t that really the root of the problem; that there are too many of us on this planet? Today, there are 6,790,734,196 people on this earth. That number is expected to reach 9,000,000,000 by 2040 and continue to grow until 2050. Now, with almost every one of these people constantly working to increase their standard of living in some way, it just won’t work. With that many people on this planet we can drive Priuses, eat organic, fill up our water bottles, bike to work, reduce-reuse-recycle all we want, and we’ll still all be screwed. There’s no way our planet can sustain us in the long run. We are literally shitting where we eat and I think we all agree that has never been a good idea.

So in all their tragedy, maybe wars, natural disasters, epidemics and diseases are doing us a favor? Maybe, ironically enough, we need them to save us…

Guest post by Marianne Condrup – #BAD09

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There are so many times that you NEED to make a decision. You have multiple choices and you don’t know what to choose. And of course I am not talking about choosing Mexican , Italian or Thai food for dinner. There are crucial and urgent decisions that someone has to take for a crisis. Let’s say that your company has a defected product and you need to communicate with all your stakeholders. (Media, customers, employees, government etc..) You need to make your plan and see what you have to do and what you don’t..

So let’s say that there are 4 possible decisions/paths. The best action is to take each path up to the third step. By these you can see the possible effect and result of this path. If you don’t like this result, you try the second path etc. By checking the third step of each possible decision/path you can be proactive and ‘see the future’. So instead of 4 possible actions, you have 4 possible results. You choose the best result and you make (hopefully) the right decision! This makes you to make better decisions that affect the future of your company, career and maybe life!