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  • 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…

  • Is there such thing as too much technology?

    Here’s the video from the compelling panel that I hosted at the Microsoft Imagine Marketing Leadership Summit.  Panelists included Lili Cheng from Microsoft FUSE Labs, NYU’s Dalton Conley (author of Elsewhere, USA) and cultural anthropologist Mimi Ito.  Of course we agreed that it wasn’t as bad as the somewhat polemic session title indicated, “It’s not…