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  • My Mashable post: 5 ways to boost your digital media career

    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…

  • The storyteller’s capital of Cascadia

    I conclude Chapter 19 Storytelling as Common Denominator of my Storyteller Uprising book with this: I highlighted those four words in the preceding paragraph – “entrepreneurship,” “innovation,” “community,”  “story” – as I see them as the core elements that all communicators must now draw upon if they wish to engage with trust and persuasion in…

  • Bin Laden’s nail in the coffin: goodbye paperboy, hello apps

    Despite my position as the head of a graduate program in digital media, I’ve always held on to a plethora of print (a.k.a. “dead tree) newspaper and magazine subscriptions.  They’re usually much cheaper than their digital counterparts, and I liked the often serendipitous browsing experience — not to mention the disconnected zen of knowledge absorption.…

  • Disruption there, disrupts here

    I enjoyed my conversation with Technology at the Margins co-author Jessica Rothenberg-Aalami on innovation in emerging markets — and its impact on business models there, and here. What happens when medical diagnostic imaging technology that costs tens of thousands of dollars  is imported from developing world into the developed one — where devices that perform…