Student Radio!

There are a lot of ways to create and manage student media today. And to be honest students, high school students, are very media savvy today. But what about students not pretending to do radio but actually doing it for real? How often to we hear students on our local commercial or national radio networks [...]

Sometimes The Old Way Just Works.

It is amazing how simple things like shopping for fish have become an exercise on sanitization. The experience has become a hands off exercise where we point at fish that is packed on ice and wait for the sales associate to pull on gloves and grab the critter for us. Not that I don’t like [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Learn about Media by Doing?

Media Literacy is a term that we have been hearing for well over 20 years. And of course there are groups and organizations in Canada, the USA and Australia who are doing some amazing work. The question I am always left asking is how do we engage the youth the primary targets of media literacy? [...]

A Dubai State of Mind

I have lived in Dubai for 11 years and I have seen many changes. There has been exceptional growth and there has been an exceptional reset. But there is no question in my mind that Dubai is a very interesting case study of success. Of course the term success is open to many different definitions. And of [...]

PR and the WEB

How to we judge the quality and effectiveness of a PR firm. More and more I am basing my judgement on whether the way a PR firm presents itself is an example of what it can do for me. You know what? Most PR firms, and I mean the big boys, are terrifying when it comes to [...]

Put up or shut up

We academics are a funny group of people. We spend our days sitting in relatively well furnished buildings dispensing the building blocks of information to the generation that is going to fix the mess we have made. But as a rule we academics do very little when it comes to actually practicing what we teach! [...]

Business vs Education

I have to be honest there are days I look at the person beside me in the flash car with the seemingly unlimited spending power and wonder why I stick around as a university professor. Sure there are the vacations and the very nice working hours, but is that enough? Then about this time of [...]

Love Your Job!

Do you love what you do? There is something about watching a person work who just loves their job! Here is a perfect example of just that. I watched this Shawarma Chef for a good 30 minutes. His hand movement, the description of sauces, the sharpening of knives, the cleanup… everything was like a poetic [...]

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