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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: Christopher Walken and Bruce Springsteen, Morgan Freeman and Christie Brinkley. On and on and on. Smart short, sensible points …
On Monday night ESPN again treated college football fans to the Megacast, the ability for everyone to watch the College Football Championship game from a host of angles and with a variety of both serious and casual commentary, all playing across the various cable and digital channels of “The Worldwide Leader.” As expected, you can …
First I will start this by saying I am not today walking in the shoes of media members in Dallas or Oklahoma City or Philadelphia or Buffalo or Boston or Waco, and I am not in the shoes of the communications people in any of those places either, nor am I in a position on …
One of the most underappreciated qualities in an attention starved, shout over everyone to get noticed world is the ability to listen, digest what you hear and learn from those around you. With so much white noise out there, channeling the good from the useless or mundane can be difficult, bit learning to be a …
The following was co-authored by Columbia student Maurice Eisenmann. You can also listen to our eSports podcast here. Also there are many links worthwhile, as part of this little eSports education… If the last couple of months have made one thing clear to us, it’s that eSports are here to stay in some growing way …
For this week’s “Teaching Thursdays” we revisit our q and a with Dr. Josg Solonon, Principal of the Business of Sports (BOSS) School in New York… The question of how to motivate young people to be more engaged in education in the United States has been raised for decades. Standardized tests, core curriculum, better use …
While fan engagement in North America by teams is the norm, even the elite clubs of South America are just arming to the idea. Two Columbia grad students, Gabriel Arias and Pedro Oliveira, have worked on a project to show Flamengo the huge opportunity of growth with their core and casual fans… Research project, developed …
Much has been hyped and speculated about what role the opening of Cuba will have in American, and global business in the coming months and years. While most experts see this as a gradual turn, not something that can happen just overnight, with many cultural, financial and political mountains to climb still, one of the …
The following was largely authored by Columbia student Maurice Eisenmann This week, Wesley Edens, co-owner of the Milwaukee Bucks, joined many of his colleagues and bought his way into an eSports team for $2.5 million. Over the past couple of months, the trend of traditional sports teams and their owners investing in eSports has reached …
We have all seen the good and the bad that the recent elections have brought to light in the area of social media influence impacting a sometimes quick to judge consumer base. President Barack Obama, who is one of the first leaders in any field to have harnessed the power of the digital and social …