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Connect The Blogs

This just in from Kim of Get It Promotions:
“You are dead-on with making the connection being the most important element. Building loyalty. Making the experience one to remember. That’s at the heart of Get It.
In a different context, but just as powerful, I lifted this from a Blog:
‘It’s the sense of touch. I think we miss that touch so much that we crash into each other just so we can feel something.’ – opening line from Crash – Writer/Director, Paul Haggis.
Life can be so sterile sometimes. We go about our business, hum drum. Hiding the ‘Desperate Housewives’-like thoughts that run through our heads (yes, even if you’re male) from those around us.
Wear the mask; because no one really wants to see underneath… they’ve all got their own masks on to hide what they think no one wants to see.
But in the late hours of the night, during a coffee break at work, after dinner, before getting dressed in the morning, the Blog rules.
Reading other people’s Blogs, listening to other people’s troubles, being affected by what we read/see/hear…
Aren’t we all looking for that sense of emotional touch? To connect with someone validates our humanness; makes us feel not so alone in what we’re feeling. Allows us to share in our triumphs.
Is that why I write this Blog?
Is that why you read it?
Real live connections are so rare! Celebrate them.”
It sometimes takes someone else to illustrate how a Blog becomes a Brand. Thanks Kim.

Mitch Joel

Mitch Joel lives at the intersection of technology, business transformation and consumer culture. He is the Executive Director of Next Era Institute, a strategic intelligence platform helping leaders understand the forces reshaping business, technology, culture and society. The Institute identifies which shifts matter, explores their wider significance and translates them into strategic direction and momentum. Mitch is also a globally recognized keynote speaker. He has delivered thousands of presentations across both B2B and B2C industries to organizations including Google, Walmart, LEGO, Shopify, Microsoft, Procter & Gamble and Unilever. Strategy Magazine has called him “one of North America’s leading visionaries.” Mitch built his career by working directly inside the waves of change that reshaped modern business. He founded and built a digital marketing agency that worked with some of the world’s largest brands and was later acquired by WPP, where he served as President of a firm operating in 25 countries with almost 3,000 employees. Mitch is the bestselling author of Six Pixels of Separation and CTRL ALT Delete, and the host of Thinking With Mitch Joel, one of the longest-running business podcasts in the world. His writing and commentary appear in outlets including Harvard Business Review, Fast Company and Inc. Magazine. He is a member of Dr. Marshall Goldsmith’s 100 Coaches and was named to the Thinkers50 Radar. Mitch also hosts Groove – The No Treble Podcast, documenting the oral history of electric bass players. Mitch is also Co-Founder of ThinkersOne, a platform that enables companies to bring personalized thought leadership from world-class experts into meetings, events and off-sites in focused 15-minute bursts.