Comments on: Industry Gatherings

By: Clay Parker Jones

Clay Parker Jones — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 14:23:25 +0000

Oakie - I’m excited for the next one. Maybe when you’re on your way out to VA you can stop by in the CHI.

Noah - A huge thank-you to you and Piers for starting this. It’s so great to meet new, brilliant people every month, to find new blogs to read and to get inspired over a Friday cup.

So… awesome! Thanks.

By: Noah Brier

Noah Brier — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 13:44:51 +0000

This honestly warms my heart. It sounds like exactly the feeling I’ve had every time I’ve walked away from a likemind for the last 8 months. So glad Chicagoans get a chance now as well.

By: Oakie

Oakie — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 08:36:16 +0000

sounds great. Hooray Clay! Keep on the next Likemind.Chi

By: Clay Parker Jones

Clay Parker Jones — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 20:32:55 +0000

Hemal - Thanks for coming by. It’s awesome that two of our likeminders today were from far-off places, and I was really just floored by some of your ideas. The notion about all this talk, on all these blogs and networks, being someday replaced by the learning silence of listening … well … that’s just a beautiful notion.

One of the things I wrote about a while back (maybe in my second month of blogging) was this idea of “All the beautiful details.” Relating, of course, to what you were saying about the nonsensical, aberrant, intriguing and beautiful things brands can do to build value on top of the explicit reason they exist. Building beautiful details and beautiful stories is fun. And people respond to it. It’s a wonder why more companies don’t get this.

Mike - Again (as I mentioned on your blog), thanks for coming. I appreciated your insight and I hope you come back next time. Maybe bring one of your clients!

By: The Hot Iron

The Hot Iron — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 20:16:43 +0000

The Path to Likemind…

This morning I participated in a dynamic discussion for the first meeting of likemind.chi. What is likemind you ask? I asked myself the same question when I heard about it, and this video by the founders of likemind explains it well. And as I am the cl…

By: Mike Maddaloni

Mike Maddaloni — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 20:01:38 +0000

And I’ll add a “me-too” to what Hemal said!

The path to how I got to this event was interesting and will make for a good next blog post!

mp/m

By: hvgill

hvgill — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 19:42:40 +0000

Hey Clay, Chris, Mike & Mike and Future Likeminders -

It was good fun. For all those interested — in my experience in New York Likemind is always a wonderful, fortuitous and fluid way of sharing ideas, getting great insights and working toward doing better work. Likemind Chicago is just as dynamic.

We had some great discussion on reinforcing the role and importance of strategy for all of our clients trying to make sense of the digital space. Sometimes it’s easy to get caught up in the technology and forget that we exist to tell beautiful, compelling and meaningful stories.

Congrats on putting this together and for all those who can - Likemind is well worth the effort to wake up a little earlier on a Friday.