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Friday night I randomly flipped through ESPN’s On demand menu and found “Requiem For The Big East,” which I hadn’t seen in quite a while, so I decided to watch for a few minutes; and then an hour and a half. I watched as a reminder of those original days of basketball but also to …
I never really chose the path to working for myself; it was kind of forced upon me when our MMA venture, the IFL, folded 12 years ago, and really three colleagues, Meredith Geisler, John Genzale and Jon Pessah, made me jump in the pool. With that came 12 years of learning, including how to best …
As we had toward 2020 the issues and opportunities with regard to engagement in social continues to ebb and flow. While Instagram looks to remove “likes,” TikTok and its recent frenzy pushes more engagement amongst a growing using audience than ever before, all based around a complicated algorithm of shares and engagement. Big names …
It’s amazing the people you meet along the road. Case in point while on Amtrak, I met a guy with the unique title of “Entrepreneur In Residence.” It is a business card I will keep, especially after he explained the job he had for a rising tech company. Basically his goal is to listen and …
I don’t know Michael Arcieri, heck I only know a few people still working in the front office of the Knicks since my time there over a decade ago, but in reading this Thanksgiving Day story by Chris Iseman I know enough of what Michael has done to make it relatable to what success can …
Twelve years ago my colleague Mike Dillon came to me with an opportunity; he created a LinkedIn Group called Sports Marketing and PR Pros but wasn’t sure what could be done with it. Back then, LinkedIn was less forward leaning than today, and even today it is still a relatively passive platform although their push …
When you are lucky to have been around the sports and entertainment business as long as some of us have, you end up in some of those “How did I get there” places, be it teaching at an Ivy League school like Columbia, helping put together a Broadway show like we did with “Lombardi” and …
Sometimes by listening, you find some of the most amazing best practices being done in places you don’t expect. Case in point was a cup of coffee I was having with Matt Futterman, the New York Times’ deputy sports editor, on Thursday morning. Amongst the news of the day and catching up on other things, …
In the news cycle we are in today, with the ability to self-generate coverage and control a narrative while speaking directly to the audience we want to reach, the choice of when to break news seems to have become less of a “must do.” If you have a window in time, a good story and …
Last week as we did new student orientation at Columbia, we were asked what topics we were watching closely this fall; my answer was, and continues to be STEM and healthy lifestyle and its new nosiness opportunities. In that second category is the fast growing issue of clean water, both in developing countries and in …