We at the Nickel have taken it upon ourselves as a creative firm to walk the walk so to speak “Run the Run.” We’ve issued a health challenge to ourselves for the next 6 mos we are going to log our workouts as a creative team to see how far we can take this health movement in Indian Country. We’ve purchased Nike N7 running shoes for our team and will be giving out a custom “Outrun the Herd- 500 years/500 miles of healthy living” tshirts to all those that join our Team Stampede at the finish line and log 500 miles in 6 months.

Join the “Buffalo Nickel Stampede.” During creative sessions on a couple of national campaigns we came up with our own internal campaign. Team Stampede. We are taking our own intiative in developing a get healthy campaign. We as programmers, creatives and business people sit alot. We sit at our desks we sit at meetings we sit at conferences we sit while we eat and as we were coming up with ways to get people moving we realized we need to get ourselves moving.

Go to www.voomaxer.com sign up for  an account which is free and join us at “Buffalo Nickel Stampede. Anyone can join.”

-Nickel Team

I was in a meeting the other day with a huge healthcare conglomerate for an RFI and they just got done banging us up pretty good about what we didn’t do but then turned around and asked the question although cliche “What is the one thing you do the best?” It was like that moment in Karate Kid where all is lost and we’re getting ready for Johnni to send Daniel San home in a body bag. We let the music build up got into our Crane technique and got ready to bring this meeting home humming that song “Your the best” in my head. I stated simply “We listen.” From these two simple words I have built my business, my partnerships and my reputation. Without doing this one thing everything else would not have succeeded. Because by listening we learn what your group does, how it operates, what are it’s issues and the majority of the time listen to the solutions you already know but just need a little help clarifying. Listening ultimately, leads to good communication and communication is the number one issues for a failure of a project. Without this foundation I would not want to move forward with anyone or any group. I realized that we  probabaly were not a good fit for this group but I had told them exactly what “we did the best.” Next time we’ll talk about listening to one another.

BNC is proud to launch the redesigned Nvisionit.org website. Nvisionit.org is a non-profit organization dedicated to the development of Native youth leadership and expressions of art, culture, education and media from a Native perspective. More content will follow as the group begins posting more information and news on its activities.

Commissioned by NACDI – Native American Community Development Institute the banner and site for the cultural corridor has been launched.

We are moving at the speed of light with all of our client roster in need of work from the team here at the Nickel. The days blurring into weeks and the weeks into months. I’m going to make a concerted effort to write updates to our site as will the rest of the team. We are currently working on 11 active campaigns and projects and will update this site as they finish. 2010 is shaping up to be our best year yet. Stay tuned.

Like the old adage “the entire village has shoes except for the cobbler’s children” working after hours which we seem to be doing on a constant basis we’ve now built our new site. We will be adding to this site with more information and posting our stories, news, events and insights for any of those that wish to know how crazy we think. Some of the things we’ve already done are pretty suspect.