Category: Media Coverage

  • Higher Ed on the precipice: hacking a solution in April

    I direct a highly-respected graduate program for professionals looking to engage and persuade through digital platforms.  Over the last decade, that technology has severely disrupted business models that were once held sacrosanct in the industrial age: journalism, music, politics, mass communications.  We no longer need institutional permission to create media and connect to strangers who actually want…

  • Our best show yet? The Economics of Passion

    The March episode of Four Peaks just flowed when we recorded it.  This is how we framed it: Creative, intellectual and artistic pursuits lead to a fresh perspective and an entrepreneurial mindset. We’ll talk to renowned photographer Chase Jarvis, whose “Seattle 100” profiled influencers from industries that collectively bring a $13 billion in economic benefit…

  • Why I gave away 2,000 books: connection is king, content as calling card

    Content: The New Marketing Equation View more documents from Altimeter Group Network on SlideShare Marketers must evolve from advertisers into storytellers. Advertisers interrupt consumers with messaging that are overwhelmingly “me” oriented: my product, my service. Storytellers attract, beguile, entertain, and inform. They are sought out and revisited. Often, they’ll enter into dialogue with their audience.…

  • Hey my attention span is stretched too.  It’s pretty obvious that we’ve become a society of grazers now that we’re faced with so MUCH content, so many pathways to access that content, but limited personal bandwidth. I purposefully kept my book tight (it’s less than 150 pages, if you want more detail, ask me, attend…