• 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…

  • During my transition from journalist, to filmmaker, to academic/media strategist, I’ve concluded that the profession formerly known as Public Relations lies at the sweet spot of 21st century professional communications.  Marketing is trying hard to be more like journalism (pushing more authentic, relevant and useful media), journalism is moving towards marketing (the search for self-sustaining…

  • KING 5 anchor Brad Goode e-mailed me at 4:30 a.m. about this, but I didn’t see it until 8 a.m. The newsroom called me at 8:20 to do a phoner, I said no way! I’ll get to the studio on time. I made it with 30 seconds to spare…Full story here. 1st collector for UW…