I learned today that IPG's Emerging Media Lab has launched a new consumer-generated-content practice. This made me wonder what IPG's Emerging Media Lab is. According to the homepage...

In a new deal between Interpublic and the Facebook, IPG's group of companies will take a 0.5% share in Facebook in exchange for spending $10 million of their clients' money on the site. Doesn't this go against compliance protocols?

Experience Planner has pointed me (via del.icio.us) to a blog that Ave A Razorfish is publishing. It has their "Enterprise Solutions" branding on it - apparently, this is a division that does intranet/extranet builds. Sounds like something new.

If you're an account management person, there are many potential mistakes you can make. Here they are:

1. Forwarding an internal correspondence to your client rather than writing a fresh e-mail, enabling them to read your internal back-and-forths
2. Lying to your client, but not getting caught

I seem to have missed this when it launched last October, but it's a pretty interesting blog managed by Adage but written by three people from various small agencies. Here's the description:

I think that this applies to anyone who works a job. Should you over-deliver on work for your clients (external or internal) or boss, and if so, how much and how often?

After reading Jon Fine's column in the Dec. 19 issue of Businessweek where he writes five media news stories that we are unlikely to see next year (in jest), I decided to write a few of my own that pertain to the online marketing industry:

I didn't use the word "Great" in the title because I'm certainly not a guru on the topic, and can't claim to know all the answers. However, I have some top-line ideas in my back pocket that have been useful in job interviews.