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Team DIGO | 12/05/2012 | in
Most iPhone cases just protect your phone from drops. If you’re getting fancy, it may have a fisheye camera lens or a screen-printed back. But what about diagnosing coronary heart disease, arrhythmia, or congenital heart defects? The AliveCor Heart Monitor is an FDA-approved iPhone case that can be held in your hands (or dramatically pressed against your chest) to produce an EKG/ECG–the infamous green blips pulsing patient-side in hospitals everywhere.
“We think that EKG screening can be as approachable as taking blood pressure,” AliveCor President and CEO Judy Wade tells Co.Design.
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Team DIGO | 12/04/2012 | in
Why do we under-test?
Here are some lessons from the winning Obama Campaign, via Bloomberg BusinessWeek.
I love this article because it neatly demonstrates what all marketers who use direct response tactics should know, but typically don’t. It gives some great examples of what marketers using direct response tactics should do, but overwhelmingly don’t. And it shows the results, including the large sums of money that most marketers leave on the table.
Their marketing crime: under-testing.
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Team DIGO | 12/03/2012 | in
Don’t be surprised if your next doctor visit requires you to touch your physician’s smartphone: the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved an iPhone case from AliveCor that can monitor your pulse and heart rhythm. The $199 AliveCor Heart Monitor, which works with either an iPhone 4 or 4S, is available for pre-orders and should be shipping to medical professionals by January of 2013.
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Team DIGO | 11/29/2012 | in
Recently received this picture from the wall of a freshman dorm room at Indiana University. The buzz from last year’s DIGO party seems to have penetrated the MidWest. Those who were there will not be surprised by the news! Looking forward to the 17th this coming May!
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Team DIGO | 10/16/2012 | in
Here is this week’s social update:
1. Social Network Storylane Allows You to Really Share Your Life Story
2. Redbull Space Jump Breaks YouTube Record
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Team DIGO | 10/10/2012 | in
Account People. I’m not going to say that account people have the hardest job in the agency, but I will say that there is no harder job in the agency that being an account person.
You are responsible for all the work you do — and there is a lot of it — plus all the work everyone else does. You are accountable to your teammembers, to the agency and to the client too.
When you’re great, you can make the difference between absolute brand, business, creative and relationship victory. When you’re not, it all can come crashing down.
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Team DIGO | 10/09/2012 | in
By MARIA PANARITIS
FreshDirect.com, the Internet-only grocer that has built a devoted flock of click-and-buy shoppers in the high-rises of New York and across its suburbs, rolled delivery trucks into Philadelphia on Monday to launch its first expansion beyond the Big Apple.
Although initially delivering only to households in and around Center City, the company that hawks farm-to-doorstep produce, meticulously selected seafood, and prepared dinners, along with supermarket staples, hopes to expand deeper next year into the Philadelphia region, building upon this area’s reputation as a food lovers’ haven.
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Team DIGO | 09/26/2012 | in
By STUART ELLIOTT
FreshDirect, the online home-delivery grocer, is preparing a new advertising approach as it seeks to, er, um, freshen its brand image.
A campaign scheduled to begin this week is to introduce a theme, “Grocery shopping perfected,” that is intended as a more engaging way to express the company’s philosophy than current lines like “A new standard for grocery shopping.”
The new theme is part of a revamped pitch aimed at busy consumers — primarily working mothers — who care enough about the quality and provenance of the food they buy to pay FreshDirect’s prices. (more…)
