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#FakeNews is the bane of everyone all year long. Except on April 1. If you’re a naturally mischievous person, April Fool’s is actually one of the best days of the year. Communications people are often at the center of their brand’s pranks. Spending their days writing so many straight news stories and press releases, it’s …
We are almost at April Fool’s Day, always a chance still for the most creative to casually try their luck at putting one over…in an era of #Fakenews, we will be on the look for some good ones, but here are some best practices in and around sports of years past. NASCAR driver Aric Almirola …
“In the future, everyone will have a podcast and an email newsletter for 15 minutes.” That little tweet from my longtime friend and colleague Jim Maiella really summed up the rush to storytell and create authoritative share of voice these days, albeit into a crowded marketplace and sometimes, without fully know who, why and where …
It is getting to be tax time in the U.S. As April 15 approaches, the whining and hand wrenching for those who may have paid enough, or not too much, or aren’t sure, gets to be more and more. Almost like the visit for root canal, tax time can bring on that feeling of dread. …
As we tip off March Madness, the good young people at the Complete SET Agency took a look for the second year in a row at the social footprint of the head coaches at each school. The coaches, especially in the highly visible worlds of football and basketball. At the biggest levels they are well …
We live in a time of hiding behind emails or text messages, having “Facebook friends,” or “Twitter relationships,” yet the experience of sitting and talking with someone; or even randomly crossing paths with an old, or new, friend or colleague by getting out and about is invaluable. This past week, stops at the Big …
We are always learning, especially from those who carved the path which we have followed. So it was with great pride I got to catch up with one of the communications and marketing industry’s true pioneers and one of its best storytellers, Alan Taylor. Alan, now living in Florida, recently penned a book called …
I admit it, I love reading AARP Magazine. It has the largest circulation of any publication in North America, yet people snicker. Not an edition goes by where I am not learning something from those older: Martin Short and Billy Joel, Tom Selleck and Robin Roberts. On and on and on. Smart short, sensible points …
Here is the latest trio of Columbia University Sports Podcast (the CUSP Show) that we have had in the past few months. Here we go from the business of Snapchat to talking security and the business of Clear to a look at Special needs hockey during Hockey Week in America this week. These were again …
All I was doing was cleaning out my bag. That’s it. There I had collected ticket stubs from the last six or eight months from everything from Off Broadway shows to Minor League Baseball to Army Navy football to soccer to college basketball. A nice pile that I keep in a small book. Each gives …