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Apple Bags Peanuts !

On Sunday, May 8, 1988, two gunmen in ski masks entered Charles Schulz’s home through an unlocked door, planning to kidnap his wife Jean. The attempt failed when their daughter Jill drove up to the house, prompting the criminals to flee. It was an attempted...

Generation Amalgamation

“We are all like a snowflake, different in our own beautiful way.” – Unknown There are six Generations, not including the “Greatest” (whom much ink has been spilled about already) comprising most of humanity. In order of time spent pondering the existence of aliens,...

Happy Birthday America

Johnnie Johnson is regarded as one of the architects of rock ’n’ roll piano. For nearly three decades, he laid down a solid rhythmic pulse behind Chuck Berry’s down-home rockers. And, in doing so, he helped provide the building blocks for an entirely new genre of...

Krazy Glue

  A neuron as traditionally defined in biological terms is a basic unit of the nervous system which is responsible for broadcasting signals throughout the brain and body, providing us with agency over ourselves and the world around us (after all this is a...

What’s missing from Social Media Week

  What would Upfront Week be without the Newfronts!? And what would the Newfronts be without the Playfronts!?!? And, as we’ll explore FOBLO (fear of being left out), what would it all be this week without Social Media Week?? Dedicated to navigating the next...

Engage, Captivate, Motivate

  There are literally hundreds of KPI’s marketers use to determine the success of marketing campaigns; success in a way, is in the eyes of the beholder. However, the single most important KPI is also the most difficult one to measure, because it is only...

a Lesson learned ?

  Let’s hope that Bill Gates latest prediction, that “in the next five to 10 years, AI-driven software will finally deliver on the promise of revolutionizing the way people teach and learn”, is more accurate that when, in 2006 he said of traditional advertising, ...

Me and My Lamma

  Pretty soon we will all have our own personal chatbot. The first will probably be in the next Windows update, whereas every ounce of metadata associated with your suite of Microsoft 365 apps (Teams, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and OneDrive) will be...

A New Frontier

We at the MBD computer science labs asked ChatGPT to tell us what the most notable marketing blunders between 1975-2005 were. As you read “It’s” response below, you may begin to feel a certain sense of unease. That is your human intuition freaking...

Liberty Mutual and Millennials

  Is Liberty Mutual abusing struggling actors, Emus, or Millennials ? Hard to tell… The Liberty Biberty guy (actor Tanner Novlan) is such a toasty mimbo that it’s hard not to love him. Clearly the butt of the joke, Novlan’s character is a nitwit model trying to...