I wrote this yesterday before returning home from our Creative Summit at Mars Advertising headquarters in Southfield, MI. It was a great week of working with creatives from all over the country. Such an impressive organization!
It’s been a week people. For those who don’t know, I’ve been at our parent company, Mars Advertising’s corporate headquarters since Monday night for a creative summit. As the company grows and expands, they’ve started an initiative to rework culture and process to better serve our clients and produce the best possible products throughout the organization. That said, there is a need for creative staff to be on the same page. Unfortunately, that page exists in Eastern Michigan in the middle of January.
Truth be told, I haven’t spent more than a few minutes at a time outside since I’ve been here so really, the weather doesn’t matter. The meetings, however, have been awesome. Tuesday and Wednesday I was surrounded by a group of the most professional and talented creatives I’ve had the pleasure of sharing a room with. We even stuck to the agenda for the most part, atypical for creative types.
I’ve made some new friends, put a lot of faces on names I’ve phoned and I’m walking away today, inspired and ready to change the world. I’m most impressed with the capabilities we have as a functional whole. If the client wants it, we can do it… In House!
Now it’s time to get back and start putting this new found networking to work!
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Some of you might know that when I’m not working as creative director at Collective Bias, entertaining wife, kids, & dogs, or hiding in the woods, I’m working with the Social Media Club, Northwest Arkansas chapter. Yes, even my hobbies include social media… it’s an addiction, I know. This little volunteer job allows me the opportunity to network and hang out with some of the more entertaining people in my area as well as make valuable business connections and grow the impact of social media all over Northwest Arkansas. Recently I’ve had the honor of being included in two other local networking groups of equally motivated and fun people.
I know, we’ve been talking about it for a while but it’s finally done. After hours of editing and countless video clips, Collective Bias, GNO, and One to One Network bring you the 2009 Bowlher video.
Truth be told it feels like it’s speeding up. We’ve got roughly 28 days until the wedding and we’re both weeded to no end. We’re getting things ironed out every day but the reality of our timeline is setting in. There are just a few little things that would be noticeable if we didn’t get to them. Like the cakes, do you think that anyone would really miss having cake at the wedding? I mean, we will have booze, isn’t that enough? No? Alright, it’s still on the list.
