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Branding Gets Personal by Gavin Heaton – www.servantofchaos.com

“On second and third screens chaotically strewn across the planet, millions of people are conversing — about their life, politics, relationships, joys, challenges, the products they consume, the items they desire and the services that they demand. The drums that we hear are not the sounds of war, but the beats of a million hearts, connecting, changing and transforming their worlds, one word at a time.”

In a chapter entitled ‘Branding Gets Personal‘ Gavin suggests that we listen carefully to the sound of drums which are telling us something new about how, and why, people are connecting in tribes that cross all sorts of new boundaries.

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