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Trendspotting – Finding Opportunity in Career Uncertainty

August 3, 2008

The Writing On The Wall Social Network, Tv News trends Social Network jobs | Tv News jobs See that blue line on the graph? That represents jobs data for the TV news industry according to Simply Hired. For those of you who don’t know me, I’m a network news cameraman by trade, still clinging on [...]

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Twitter: Show Me Added Value if You Want Me to Pay

May 27, 2008

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. Albert Einstein Let’s operate under the premise that Einstein was right about this. Why then, do I, and nearly everyone else on Twitter continue to keep coming back to this infuriatingly unstable platform to connect with our communities? It’s likely because, for [...]

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Conference to Conference – Putting the “Social” Back in Social Media

April 21, 2008

New Communications Forum 2008 gathering the lunch gang with Shel. (photo courtesy of Lunaweb) On the eve of my trip to the 2008 New Communications Forum in Sonoma, CA, I’m looking back at a couple of inspiring and energizing conferences that I’ve had the opportunity to attend in the past month – South By Southwest [...]

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Taking Free Speech for Granted in the Middle East

January 15, 2008

Dateline: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia – covering President Bush from inside “the bubble” Here in Riyadh, we’re wrapping up a trip with President Bush, which the administration hopes has jump started the Israeli/Palestinian peace process, while at the same time, building support with Gulf region states to apply pressure on Iran. As with all of these [...]

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“Media Snacking” Theme Echoed at VON Conference in Boston

November 4, 2007

I’m just on the heels of Jeff Pulver’s Video on the Net conference in Boston, where he and Chris Brogan lined up some very interesting panels looking at the state of the internet video industry. One of the themes that threaded its way through numerous sessions was the notion of “media snacking”. A couple of [...]

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8 Random Things About Me

July 27, 2007

 I’ve been tagged with the “8 random things about me” meme by Connie Reece and Goldie Katsu. Strange, but as i sit here, I wonder if I can come up with eight. I love world travel, but I love coming home more. I take pride in the fact that I’m a second generation Washingtonian. I’m [...]

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Embedded With the Candidates, NBC News Videoblogging the Campaign

June 25, 2007

video blogging tools of the trade So is this your idea of fun? Are you a political junkie? Are you good at multi-tasking? Do you work well with liltte or no sleep? If the answer to ALL of these questions is “yes”, I suggest you look into a once-in-a-lifetime (or once every four years at [...]

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