Scott Rasak | Blog

Facebook default landing tabs are gone and pinned posts are the new promotion as Facebook rolls out the Timeline design for fan pages.

This thing truly does work. If you are in need of a quick pitch, you need to use this free tool. I really like how it organizes your thoughts and services into a quick and easy pitch that takes seconds. Not a word wasted. 

Scott Rasak, marketing coordinator at the Pacific Aviation Museum Pearl Harbor, who helps organize networking events with Nextworking, recently held an event for Ad 2 Honolulu here, drawn by the environment.

“The space worked out perfectly, with great trendy lounge music,” Rasak says. “The food is always good and specialty drinks keep the interest of the crowd. This is truly a great networking space for a weekday event.”

It’s that time — and we’re watching not only the beautiful dresses but also the products with prominent cameos. A surprise: None of the makers of the items showcased in the following nominated films paid for placement. Appropriate scene-setting, it seems, trumps economic opportunity. “Brands can add authenticity to the film product,” says Mark Owens, president of product-placement firm Norm Marshall & Associates. So does an Oscar.

Thanks to Gap’s face-plant of a logo revamp, 2010 will go down in the historical ledger as the worst year for brand design since, well, OK, just last year. Still, it’s a damn shame, because the past 12 months have witnessed a raft of branding innovations, from a classed-up packaging concept for Tang to logos that morph across the full spectrum of modern-day media.