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As we head toward 2023 the issues and opportunities with regard to engagement in social continues to ebb and flow. While Twitter continues to be a quandry for many, TikTok and its continued frenzy pushes more engagement amongst a growing using audience than ever before, all based around a complicated algorithm of shares and engagement. …
Going into last baseball season the great Will Leitch wrote a piece on the complaints by traditional fans about the designated hitter in the National League. The point of the piece was simple…important to talk about? Sure? Earthshattering worthy of massive complaints and hand wringing and protest? Not really. It’s sport. Enjoy it. Its not …
It’s been great getting back to face to face events this year, the opportunities to randomly catch up with old colleagues, meet new ones and yikes, even listen and learn a bit. Case in point was Wednesday when we dropped in for a day at Sports Business Journal’s first day of their Media Innovators conference, …
We take another look at some of our recent podcasts summarized by Noah Zaret. This weekend are two disruptors who also happened to have found blue ocean and are exploiting it on the engagement and content side, Dylan Sadiq, a first generation Rutgers grad who turned an engineering degree in to a literal artform, and …
As much as I learn from scrolling through online platforms I still feel like I retain more and learn more, from flipping through hard copies of books, magazines and newspapers again and again. Case in point was a Sunday New York Times piece, an oral history on the 25th anniversary of The Lion King on …
November 8 was STEM Awareness Day, and it served as a great reminder to how closely linked all areas of science, especially analytics, gambling the Metaverse, are tied to all levels of sport. Years ago when I was with the Knicks, star forward Kurt Thomas came to the community relations team with an idea; he had …
This past Sunday CBS had a great piece on “Ageism,” and the effects of words and actions that can be descriminatory, and disappointing to the generation over 50. Maybe that’s true, but to be honest, the people above 50 I know in business who are looking to thrive, or are thriving, are doing quite well …
It’s November, which in the fundraising world again means “Movember.” For those who don’t know… Originally launched in Australia 16 years ago, the theme for “Movember” was to get primarily men (although women helped out with a fake one) to grow a mustache or not shave for the 30 days of the month of November, and then …
We get to interact with people with such amazing stories every day, but every once in a while one come’s along that makes you say “What?” Such was a case at the MIT Sloan Analytics Conference last March when a young man from Taiwan came up to me and said he wanted to meet and …
If you hear about something randomly (and listening again is so key) maybe it’s a random thought. If you hear about something three times maybe its becoming something buzzworthy…if you hear about something four or five times…and once is from the pulpit…maybe it is really a thing. Case in point is letterwriting, its value, and …