Get Motivated!

In September I will be taking on the challenge of being the 1st chair of the Department of Mass Communication at the Canadian University of Dubai. The 1st question people ask is why am I leaving Zayed University after 12 years? Zayed University has been a great place to work and a fantastic personal innovation [...]

Innovation in Everything!

I think, I know that we all need to be thinking about innovation in everything we do. Of course we don’t or we like to say we are not innovative. The biggest failure today in pretty much every industry is failing to see the ability to innovate what we do. And education is top on [...]

Full Context Publishing

We all have a book inside of our heads, maybe you have more? The problem we are constantly faced with, as we think about the ideas and information we want to communicate, is that the ideas and the delivery vehicle have come to be separate. What we communicate and how we communicate have become so [...]

The Sound of the UAE

I have been teaching a practicum course at Zayed University in Dubai called Zayed Media Lab since 2003. This course has changed a lot since we first started it, but it has always stayed very true to the core idea of combining what has been learned in the curriculum of the communication college to real world [...]

This is the alternative MBA

What happens when you get 3 very successful entrepreneurs into a room to talk about their success? There is a lot to be learned from the business world today and I contend you can learn most of it by listening to what those who are in it are saying. Of course trying your hand at [...]

The Training We Need

I am constantly amazed by how ill prepared students really are to go out into the big bad world of work. YES we do give students a wealth of ideas and knowledge. YES we do tes the life out of students to prepare them for failure and criticism. But how well do we prepare the [...]

Power of Celebrity, Products and Marketing!

I love U2. I love a great ad or the making of one. I love the way the band members of U2 are able to entertain and spread messages on multiple levels and via multiple streams of media. This is a great example of old and new media converging to send a subtle message that [...]

Hugh says it again!

How Digital and Traditional Journalism Mix.

I teach in a College of Communication and Media Sciences. We teach storytelling. Some of the tools to tell stories are traditional, paper and the like. Some of the tools to tell a story are electronic. And the constant battle today is to find the mix, the right mix, of traditional and new journalism tools [...]

Cynicism on hold ?

If you can remember who you wanted to be as a kid you have gold. Friendship trumps money. Yes you can do anything. Maybe not in our jaded world but it sure is in the world of the Muppets. So how do you go about writing a script that can take a 40 year history [...]

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