httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8s_HHvnecO4 Last Thursday I had the pleasure of speaking on a panel regarding the role of cultural diplomacy in bridging U.S./Muslim relations. The theme for the evening was “In The Age of Global Civilization There Is No Us or Them” and the special guest was Farah Pandith, President Obama’s Special Envoy to Muslim Communities under […]
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Today Mark Zuckerberg travels to D.C. for a Congressional Briefing on privacy. While this will probably bring the privacy debate to a boil, I wanted to return to a Zuckerberg statement revealed last week that was largely overlooked in the emotion of privacy pushback. The statement was extracted from David Kirkpatrick’s upcoming book, The Facebook Effect by Michael Zimmer […]
Read MoreI’m really excited to be speaking at the Cannes International Advertising Festival this year and wanted to share some of the seminars that I’m looking forward to. I’ll give a snapshot of what each is about so that you get a sense of what issues the industry is addressing. Plus, if you’re going, this should be […]
Read Morehttpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1Oaj7ZXUxY I recently had the great pleasure of sitting down with Derrick Ashong – extraordinary musician, radio host and thought leader in the social change space. He shared his insights into how to reach younger audiences and what they want to hear. Derrick Ashong & Harpo Productions: SM: Derrick’s been doing some fantastic work with […]
Read MoreThis week I’m giving away a copy of Iggy Pintado‘s Connection Generation. Inside Iggy reveals how the world’s new obsession with connectivity directly affects the success or failure of how we function in society, both in business and as individuals. With ever increasing links between all facets of society, he stresses it’s important to understand how […]
Read Morehttpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1ANVCDHYA4 If only these walls could talk, the saying goes. In the case of the N building near Tachikawa station in Japan they do. In fact the whole building facade has been transformed into a real time dialogue between smart phones and what’s going on inside the store. All you do is hold your phone up […]
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