Cool Idea!

We all go to conferences, a significant investment of time for sure, but do we have any measure of the value of the conference to others? Not usually. Sure we do a survey here and there but do we have any other way to figure out what impact the conference or meeting is having on [...]

Today TEDxZU Was Launched!

Well today was a special day, TEDxZU was launched. Since 2009 I have been a curator or co-curator of 3 different TEDx events, spoken at a TEDx event and helped mentor 2 events. After my last TEDx, TEDxAbuDhabiU which was excellent, I went back to the drawing board. Actually I asked myself why [...]

TEDx Global Music Project

TED is cool. TEDx is cool. And a few TEDsters got together and asked what happens to the original music that comes out of TEDx events? Of course that indie music just went up into the ether. Well now there is the TEDx Global Music Project. I love this project because it is all about [...]

Are We Ready to Re-imagine Journalism?

Are we ready to re-imagine journalism and do we want to? Or should the question be do journalism schools want to re-imagine what they are teaching, why and how? The journalism of yesterday and the journalism of today are rather different! Sure the physical act is the same, sort of, but the environment is changing [...]

The Grass is Greener!

I have a serious case of envy. And my plan is to fix my own, distracted time-management skills, to eliminate the envy I am feeling. I am envious of Wilma (named changed for anonymity) because she has managed to, very purposefully, focus all of her time on her immediate tasks at hand. Every conversation, every interaction, [...]

Story in the story!

I posted the Storify video interview yesterday. What is really cool is that these guys are huge Hugh MacLeod fans! Check out the images in the background! And did you catch the Seth Godin quotes? Very cool!

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 [...]

Can you get past the name? Holy F*%@

This is one of the coolest “genre bending” bands I have listened to in a long time! And these guys are playing the music! Can you get past the name? What I love is that these guys are bending ideas and expectation! Watch, listen and marvel.

Finally! The teaching tool I need is here!

SmartBoards, SmartPhones, GoogleDocs, DropBox, Web, Wiki…. there is an ever growing number of tools available to educators today to help make the information exchange process easier. And I am sorry to say 95% of the technology enabled tools, my estimation, are useless. Sure 95% of those technology enabled tools are cool, sexy even, but they fail [...]

Things to Avoid for Success

Read REWORK. I love the list of things to avoid if you want to stand a fleeting chance of finding your success. 1. long-term contracts 2. excess staff 3. permanent decisions 4. meetings 5. thick process 6. inventory (physical and mental) 7. long-term road maps 8. office politics If you blend the list of 8 [...]

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