Is there one link, story, picture or thought that you saw online this week that you think somebody you know must see?
My friends: Alistair Croll (BitCurrent, Year One Labs, GigaOM, Human 2.0, Solve For Interesting, the author of Complete Web Monitori…
Episode #350 of Six Pixels of Separation – The Twist Image Podcast is now live and ready for you to listen to.
Welcome to episode #350 of Six Pixels Of Separation – The Twist Image Podcast. There’s a new book in town about marketing, advertising and …
TED is the most important conference out there. TED is so much more than a conference.
News was announced this week that the annual TED conference would be moving from its current home in Long Beach, California to Vancouver, British Columbia. As a Can…
A fictional situation (that is all too real)…
Imagine this: you have an amazing day at work. A big project got completed, you were called out in terms of your excellence and other moments of pride and distinction from your peers ensue. You can’t wai…
There’s a line that has been marinating in my brain for close to a year now.
One of the speakers at the TED 2012 conference in Long Beach was Jim Stengel. Stengel is a legend (of sorts) in the marketing industry as the former global marketing officer …
It doesn’t take long to find inspiration. It takes forever to figure out how to do something meaningful with it.
I’ve been fortunate enough to be able to attend the famed TED conference since 2008. Within that timeframe, I have also helped out on a fe…
Episode #332 of Six Pixels of Separation – The Twist Image Podcast is now live and ready for you to listen to.
There are few kinder people than Mark Miller. I had the pleasure of meeting Mark many years ago at my first TED conference. I didn’t know a…
Looking for something good to read this weekend?
If you happen to be lucky enough to have some free time (who does?) and you’re looking for something interesting to read, something that will help you get ahead at your job or something that will give y…
It’s funny how things fall together.
I found out that Julie Burstein, the author of Spark – How Creativity Works and creator of the radio program Studio 360 with Kurt Andersen for Public Radio International, was going to be a speaker at this past year…
Are you fascinated by humanity?
Great ideas happen when we come together as a group of people. This is why the role of our cities in our society plays such a critical and fascinating role. It’s true, that everything good about humanity probably comes …
There must be something in the air.
While I am no Julien Smith when it comes to reading books, I am doing my best to maintain a high pace of book reading. I recently started digging into Imagine – How Creativity Works by Jonah Lehrer and it took me ab…
The Art of Marketing is coming to Chicago on April 24th, 2012.
I’m very excited to announce that The Art of Marketing full-day leadership summit is happening in Chicago on April 24th, 2012 at The Chicago Theater. As you can see by the agenda, the line…
You need to wrestle (deeply) with what you are about to see.
Since I attended this past year’s TED conference, I can’t get the dinner conversation I had with Sherry Turkle out of my mind. With each passing day, as I get further and further involved in…
93Is there one link, story, picture or thought that you saw online this week that you think somebody you know must see?
My friends: Alistair Croll (BitCurrent, Year One Labs, GigaOM, Human 2.0, the author of Complete Web Monitoring and Managing Bandw…
Is there one link, story, picture or thought that you saw online this week that you think somebody you know must see?
My friends: Alistair Croll (BitCurrent, Year One Labs, GigaOM, Human 2.0, the author of Complete Web Monitoring and Managing Bandwid…
What kind of experience do you want?
Marketers have abused the anonymity of IP addresses for too long and now consumers (and journalists) are fighting back… and they’re fighting mad. Everything you say and do online can and is being used against you…
Is your head buried in your lap?
After attending the TED 2012 conference in Long Beach, California last week, I could not help but think about how pervasive technology and media is in our lives. Surprisingly, I have not been thinking about it in the b…
What do you think of when you think of creative people?
Slackers? The people in the office who often wear jeans, but rarely wear socks? The ones bouncing the rubber balls off of the walls or the ones with the desks that are littered with action figure…
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