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Forget an MBA – Watch creativeLIVE’s “Secrets of Silicon Valley”

by David | Jun 25, 2013 | Digital Migration, New Marketing

 How many times do you get a chance to ask spectacularly successful tech entrepreneurs anything you want? Janine & I just completed two days of intense sessions with some of Silicon Valley’s most successful entrepreneurs at creativeLIVE’s “Secrets of...

Economic Crisis Forces Spain’s Newspapers into Digital Migration

by David | May 29, 2013 | Digital Migration, new media, newspaper crisis, Newspaper Deathwatch, Newspapers

Unemployment over 50% – banking system collapse – political instability – newspapers run out of options When asked what are the enduring lessons of the last five years for newspapers, various pundits have opined “Don’t enter an economic...

Turning “Likes” into Schwag: American Airlines and Klout

by David | May 8, 2013 | advertising

One in an occasional, erratic and occasionally erratic series Time is money. Image is everything. Manners maketh man. Your reputation precedes you. And now, having a high (enough) Klout score wins you entry into the American Airlines first-class lounge, where you can...

Gaming Twitter Follower Counts Makes You a Dick

by David | Mar 4, 2013 | Blogging, Lemmings, Sip With Caution

The “Follow/Unfollow Dance” builds your lists … but to what end? Social media whiz & Cheesehead Homie Erik Johnson writes powerfully about his experience with one of his intellectual idols. Viz: Every school had one. The kid who pretended to be...

The Ongoing Digital Migration: Spin Magazine

by David | Dec 26, 2012 | advertising, Digital Migration

Spin magazine is killing its print edition-tell me how paywalls would help this situation? I keep hearing over and over again that the demise of Murdoch’s The Daily means that digital magazines don’t work, the real solution to the revenue problems is to...
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