Earlier this week, I spent several hours at the World Business Forum held in Radio City Music Hall in NY. The event drew more than 4000 attendees from over 60 different countries. By any measure, it is easily one of the largest business conferences in the world. Listening to powerful speakers like Jack Welch, Al
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Continue reading »The Five Branches Of Government 2.0
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Yesterday's NY Times featured a cover story about an increasingly common problem of turnover that many Broadway musical productions are facing. As more and more of these shows feature recognizable star actors as headliners like The Producers with Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick, they run into the inevitable problem of trying to keep the production
Continue reading »How A Portuguese Singer Got 20 Million Views On YouTube
Ana Free is a singer and songwriter from Portugal who started her career with a simple idea. For the past three years she has been recording herself in locations ranging from her bedroom to regional concert stages singing cover versions of popular songs and her own original compositions accompanied by just her guitar and posting
Continue reading »Why Case Studies Are Overrated
There is a misguided search that almost everyone working in marketing around the world seems to be on. It involves seeking a golden example or case study that lays out perfectly how to achieve success with social media and be effective. In their minds, this case study would create the perfect argument for ROI, and
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It is nearly the anniversary of the closing of a 3 year quest you may have heard of. The Netflix Prize was a $1m contest launched by the popular video rental service to improve their movie recommendation engine by a specific algorithmic percentage. The challenge was open to any and all mathematics and University teams
Continue reading »5 Ideas From A Global Journey Through Beer Marketing
It is hard not to enjoy beer marketing. Even if you are not a marketer, this industry always offers creative advertising (particularly on TV) that is fun to watch and spends lots of money doing it. Every year at the Super Bowl, a good number of the Top 10 ads come from beer companies. In
Continue reading »How Filmmaking Can Change The World (With Your Help)
Every community has its secrets. There are things that no one talks about because they are afraid to. Often, these things are not well understood and it is hard to know what to say about them. They are usually deeply personal as well and referred to as a stigma, which is a word that communicators
Continue reading »25 SXSW 2011 Panel Ideas Worth Getting Excited About
Every year the SXSW event starts the excitement around planning early by releasing their “panel picker” – an online interface that lists all the panel submission ideas for SXSW along with descriptions and offers anyone the chance to vote or comment on the panel choices. This feedback is then used by the planners of SXSW
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