It’s been too long since I posted a three-pack from Organic’s ThreeMinds blog. These great posts are creating a lot of discussion:

1. Where Does Brand Experience Begin and End? by Anthony Viviano and Sarah Jo Sautter examines the rare execution of holistic brand experiences, across media and from web to office or retail.
2. Do Social Media Marketers Dream Of Monitoring Tools? by Anna Banks outlines the features needed for deep social media monitoring. This new discipline is noisy, and expanding rapidly. And also;
3. Why You Shouldn’t Care About Seeing Flash on iPhone by Fang-Yu Lin shuts down the speculation. If you care about user experience, you’ll understand why.

I’ve never used Lolcats on my blog, so this is the first, and last time. Promisses.

Photo credits: Marc Shandro.

Back in May, I tweeted eight “Web Strategy Reminders” that got some great responses. Here they are altogether, with two bonus reminders to allow people to laugh like Count von Count when they’re done.

Web Strategy reminder No. 1: If you’re just adding a “Community” tab to your web site, You’re doing it wrong.

Web Strategy reminder No. 2: If you’re pushing Content out through banners, You’re doing it wrong.

Web Strategy reminder No. 3: If everything you build has a unique interface, You’re doing it wrong.

Web Strategy reminder No. 4: If you start with a tactical gimmick on a platform your market doesn’t use, You’re doing it wrong.

Web Strategy reminder No. 5: If your platform doesn’t separate form from function, You’re doing it wrong.

Web Strategy reminder No. 6: If you’re ignoring the fact that Search is the number one way that users find you, You’re doing it wrong.

Web Strategy reminder No. 7: If you’re not considering how your experience will change over time, You’re doing it wrong.

Web Strategy reminder No. 8: If you’re not implementing a holistic measurement strategy beyond clickstream analysis, You’re doing it wrong.

Web Strategy reminder No. 9: If you’re ignoring the fact that your employees are telling the story of your brand (good or bad) better than your corporate web site, You’re doing it wrong.

Web Strategy reminder No. 10: If you’re excited about your new banner ad pushing to your new television ad on your new Flash web site, You’re doing it wrong.

As the shimmering waters of Facebook, Twitter and other social spheres are opened, many marketers are diving in the shallow end head first and hoping that the API waterwings their social media guru has supplied will keep them afloat.

I blogged about a few of these examples here, listing some brands gasping for air as their Twitter API “strategy” gets pulled from their lungs, and others just treading water.

Enter Prototype-Experience.com, a console game site (the Mitch Buchanan of this metaphor), where users link the Prototype trailer with their social graph and assets via Facebook Connect.

This is an excerpt of a post… Read the rest of this post on Organic’s Threeminds Blog

Wow. My two favourite topics in a single post over at One Degree:

1. The mis- and overuse of flash for no real value; and,
2. A watered-down attempt at UGC (user-generated content) by a corporation

Update: A Sears marketer has posted that this was not an attempt at UGC… good positive follow up on the blog, but really, what was the point of this site anyway?

Update 2: Man, that security guard is creepy.