Tag: digital media

  • My story solution to fend off a poorer, meaner, hotter world

    Against our better judgment, we seem to be making our world poorer, meaner and hotter. I intend the opposite for my children and for my students. And I will use the two strategies in which I have most invested my entire professional life — content and connectivity — to do something about it.

  • Here’s the advice I gave to over 1,000 millennials at TEDx Oregon State (update: now with video)

    Hanson Hosein’s slides from his TEDx Oregon State University talk given on February 12 2015. He shares five lessons on why we all need to practice a form of professional self-destruction to sustain success in this disruptive age. He’ll also explain when to know it’s time to move on to the next big thing. Hanson…

  • How the New York Times’ dead tree A1 reflects my connected world right now

    It’s also a reflection of the evolution and growth of my own graduate program in digital media to a more expansive one in content, creativity and leadership…We are shifting our relational expectations as we grant the world a 24/7 invitation to our lives through this new bodily organ that is our mobile technology. We expect…

  • A need to pivot. My four lessons

    To pivot: a change in direction, sometimes despite great present-day success. Breathless future-facing magazines laud this move. Indeed, Fast Company’s “The Pivot” series does so as it: …explores those destiny-altering decisions made by companies that have gone on to great success. Read more about their course corrections–and alternate endings. I’ve recently experienced four occasions of “pivoting”,…