Author: Hanson Hosein

  • As 2011 comes to a close, the economic situation remains bleak. Usually, graduate school applications rise during a depressed job market, but the ongoing uncertainty has discouraged some potential students from pursuing a graduate degree — MBA applications are down 10%, according to The Wall Street Journal. Yet with the rise of social media and the rapid…

  • Check out my conversation with Margaret Larson about the latest and greatest apps (Alaska Airlines, GoGoKiddo, Google Currents) as well as some words of “wisdom” about the Kindle Fire and the new 5.3″ Samsung Galaxy Note (the one device to rule them all?).  We’ll be doing this on a monthly basis, so I look forward…

  • “Video games will be the fastest-growing and most exciting form of mass media over the coming decade” declares the headline to The Economist’s recent video games special report “All the world’s a game.” According to PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), a consulting firm, the global video-game market was worth around $56 billion last year. That is more than…

  • That’s how much content I’ve pushed out in 2011.  Starting with Storyteller Uprising as two chapters in February on Amazon, then completing our Detroit Uprising film with Scott Macklin a few months later. Tonight, we’re shooting our last Four Peaks episode for the year (this one on leadership). You can watch the current episode on loyalty…