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There is no doubt that if you want to engage with a generation below 30, you want to have an understanding of the social space; how it works, how it helps, what the pratfalls are etc. Even if you choose not to engage, having a casual working knowledge of platforms is always helpful. Of all …
As we move into Championship Week and fully into March Madness, the sense of underdog success permeates the air. It is totally unlike the big-time sports business feel of college football, which generates millions for select schools competing at the highest levels, but has little of the mystery and mystique of the NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship. The …
Next month while much of America is fixated on March Madness, a large crowd will cram its way into Bridgewater-Raritan High School in Bridgewater, New Jersey. There will be painted faces and cheerleaders, cowbells and mascots, rival fans chanting at each other, ear splitting techno music, a roaring emcee, referees in the requisite striped shirts …
It is here again with very little notice, starting on Friday the 17th and going into NBA All-Star Weekend, while both last weekend and next weekend remain open for possibilities. The official start of college baseball season. While most media outlets are closely following every pitch and move prior to the official opening of spring …
Spending four productive Pre Super Bowl days logging lots of Fitbit steps in and around the Bush Convention Center produced some great experiences, meetings and observations. Enjoy the game! The Value of Radio Row: A few years ago the death of radio, or the spoken word, as a viable piece of storytelling to a wide …
The following was co-authored by Columbia student Maurice Eisenmann… We are now heading towards “March Madness,” and on college campuses, a growing number of schools big and small, another type of madness is breaking out; collegiate eSports madness. Collegiate eSports, that is eSports that will involve competition amongst American colleges, is moving to a …
The sport of squash is fast, ultra-athletic and pretty much refined to clubs and select colleges and high schools in the United States. It has never been “mainstream.” The International Squash Federation, with a large amount of support in India and Pakistan, has tried in vain to get the sport on the Olympic programme. Women’s …
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 …
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 …