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THE 2009 DALTON CAMP LECTURE IN JOURNALISM Listen One of the toughest parts of working in education is knowing that you are teaching a group of students of which some will go into careers that at this exact moment do not exist. So, the question has to be, am I giving them the skills they [...]

apps are the future.

The 4th screen (your mobile/cellular phone) holds the key to your information world. And are we teaching app creation, management, imagination in our schools? I suspect many teachers/professors have only a passing knowledge about apps given that they are not using phones that easily take on board advanced applications. My advice to students, anyone really, [...]

Find the motivation $$$

Stuart Flemming of enviroserve.ae spoke to me about how we can motivate companies to be more environmentally friendly! A conversation with Stuart Flemming of Enviroserve.ae about motivating environmental change! Flemming has just launched enviroAudits that make it clear how much you can save by making simple changes, it is all in black and white! Once [...]

What we need is to know!

Last night I had the chance to speak to professor Dan Connell of Simmons College Boston about Eritrea. Listen to the podcast it is 20 minutes of magic. What do you know about Eritrea? If you are like me , not much. Yet this country has been in the news for over 30 years, and [...]

Listen to Kids MORE!

Last night on Nightline I spoke to 6 kids, aged 10-12, about everything from who their idols are to how to solve the financial issues confronting us today. Listen to the conversation it was refreshing! What did I learn from the conversation? 1. that things often are as simple as they seem 2. perception is [...]

AudioBoo.

I want to share with you one of my absolute favorite WEB2.0 tools, yes I see WEB2.0 applications as tools, Audioboo! Audioboo is an application that I use on my iPhone to post audio podcasts. You may be saying why? Who cares? What is the point? All good questions! Well, there is no denying that [...]

Do the shirts matter?

Last night I had a very interesting conversation with Razan Masri, she is behind the shirt sensation Camiceria Design in Dubai! The idea is to give men a shirt with personality beyond a piece of driftwood. But do men really want to dress with personality? And does dressing in shirts that accent a man’s personality [...]

Food for Thought.

TEDxDubai and TED.COM in general have provoked me to spend a lot of time thinking about how we communicate about the issues around us that we need to deal with now! The short and simple answer is we do not communicate well about the micro issues that can/will and do impact upon our very lives. [...]

The New Face of Journalism I Imagine.

I believe journalism is in a crisis situation, the crisis of being irrelevant. I believe that journalism is on the brink of becoming irrelevant as a field of study NOT because students are abandoning the field of study, but because the professors and practitioners of the trade are unable to grasp, see, live, adapt to [...]

Tell A Story You Believe!

I spend a good portion of my week walking students through the art of storytelling. Today my storytelling lessons are increasingly in the guise of public speaking, something that +/- 90% of those who do it do poorly. What makes a good story/presentation? 10% content and 90% show! I It is the show that near [...]

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