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  • Facebook is dead to me: long live Facebook!

    Facebook is dead to me: long live Facebook!

    So what’s with “People in my neighborhood” anyway?  At first, it was to tell some short stories about interesting people I meet on a regular basis.  And it gave me the opportunity to show off a wonderful new Olympus 45mm 1.8 micro four-thirds portrait lens (for that beautifully shallow depth-of-field as you can see with…

  • 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.…