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Why go to school? What is a teacher? Public education? Smart? Not? Economics vs intellectual? I am moving to a new school in September to help create the UAE’s leading mass communication program. I say leading because if we are going to just do what is typical today there would be no point in moving [...]

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 [...]

Communication Outside the Box

Too often when we think of communication we get caught in our our known and accepted reality, the reality trap. Communication can and does take many forms. The ability to harness a variety of forms of communication through the creative process is something we are not doing so well in our education systems. Don’t get [...]

The More the Better.

Maybe just maybe the advertising industry has something to share with schools. In the past advertisers have liked to believe that you want to avoid consumer confusion by keeping messaged clear and single media based. Sure there may be messages across media but the logic has been that different screens being used simultaneously in multimedia [...]

Cannes and Creativity School

OK I want to be part of this! I would like to go for a starter! The Cannes Creative Academy. Now take a look at what it is all about. Look at what the students are put through. The learning programme Students follow an intensive schedule of activities during the Festival week, under the leadership [...]

Mobile Bonanza?

Have you seen this headline? Worldwide mobile advertising revenue forecast to reach $3.3 billion in 2011 The numbers are pretty amazing and if they are anywhere near target wow! My question goes back to education. Are our business schools, IT Colleges and Communication schools onto this idea? Worldwide mobile advertising revenue is forecast to reach [...]

What is convergent journalism?

Are we there yet? What is convergent journalism and is anyone really teaching it? Sure there is a lot of talk but is there a lot of actual application? And then there is the whole issue of whether convergent journalism simply further blurs the PR/journalism line altogether. Here is a good place to start the conversation, a [...]

We need a new perspective!

Chris Anderson recently spoke to a group of Harvard architecture grads. The speech was published here, http://tedchris.posterous.com/a-speech-to-graduating-harvard-architects-6122, I think it is worth a read for several reasons. 1. Chris Anderson is swimming in the TED idea pool so it is interesting to get his view from the pond 2. This is a wel prepared talk 3. Another [...]

To Mobile Media or NOT Mobile Media

I am a huge advocate of creating and diseminating media to be consumed via a mobile device, a smartphone. But there are problems to be addressed. I am not a BlackBerry fan BUT maybe, just maybe, the PlayBook is the answer to the problems of reading off of a mobile phone screen? The pairing or [...]

Career Path Fog

One of the things I have become fascinated by is how people get into their careers. Sometimes, as a professor of communication and media sciences, I am uneasy talking about career options becasue who knows where you might end up with a communication degree. Sure many, maybe even the majority of grads ,will travel along [...]

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