• I’m “stealing the microphone:” my three chances to spread some Seattle-inspired gospel this month

    Our city’s fan-powered Super Bowl victory reminded me how much Seattle needs to fight to steal away attention from the media capitals on the east coast and in California. I even have this crazy theory that as disinterested corporate titans in the New York area gave up their tickets to the game thereby depressing secondary…

  • How I exercised my “licence-to-ignore” downtime on post-pc storytelling: content creation consequences

    I’ve tried a few digital sabbaths, and I realize that I’m fooling myself in this age of technological mobility. Even if I’m not communicating directly with others on my smart device, I’m using it to read books, listen to music and watch videos. So this month, I watered down the “cold turkey” approach to something…

  • This year, my expanded focus on innovation begins with CES 2014

    I spent 2013 innovating within our graduate program by adding a second degree emphasis, even as I helped tell the story of innovation by partnering our Four Peaks television show with Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos’ new Center for Innovation. The reviews for that high-level project have been good. I was especially taken with this critic’s observation about one particular exhibit…

  • TL;DR? My three imperatives to tell the story in 2014

    A final 2013 expedition took me to Brussels to lead a number of sessions for the European Commission’s “Telling the Story” conference, with 800 participants. After these talks, and my happy hour keynote for the Belgian chapter of the IABC, I recognize that these three imperatives had the most impact upon my audience, which I’ve…