Tag: social media

  • That’s how much content I’ve pushed out in 2011.  Starting with Storyteller Uprising as two chapters in February on Amazon, then completing our Detroit Uprising film with Scott Macklin a few months later. Tonight, we’re shooting our last Four Peaks episode for the year (this one on leadership). You can watch the current episode on loyalty…

  • Frank Rich’s Wallflowers at the Revolution in this weekend’s New York Times resonates deeply.  It hits me both as an observer on the impact of social media platforms on such uprisings, as well as as former television news reporter in the Middle East. The live feed from Egypt is riveting. We can’t get enough of…

  • From what I can tell so far, no — or it’s way too early to tell since January 14th, when Tunisia’s authoritarian leader fled the country in the face of a month of public protests [though see my update below]. I spent a lot of time reporting in the Middle East, but I haven’t been…

  • You gotta love Russian President Dimitry Medvedev (or maybe not!).  He’s the world’s most powerful Deep Purple fan.  And it seems as if he updates his own Twitter account — at least the Russian-language version. Of course, it’s easy to assume that heads of state have teams of handlers who do their direct online communication…