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An Open Letter to the Poynter Institute and Tampa Bay Times
Since taking a handful of journalism and media classes in college, I have had a respect for, and interest in journalism and the art of reporting the news. The in-depth written story that a journalist delivers is [...]
It’s not often we get to say simply, “I was right” but this morning I woke to some exciting news in an email blasted letter from Times Chairman and CEO Paul Tash. As I predicted in September here, the St Petersburg Times will in fact become the Tampa Bay Times.
The change [...]
With the death of Steve Jobs we have lost a great creator, innovator and inspiration. We have lost someone who understood the need to choose passion for life over work for the sake of work. We lost someone who, while wildly successful early in life would not have given up if it had taken longer or [...]
Last night I attended the Kick Off reception for Leadership Tampa Bay’s 2011-2012 Class and have to say I am very excited to be a part of this program.
I committed over five years to leadership of Ad 2 Tampa Bay and Ad 2 National culminating as National Chair in 2007-2008 with a voting seat [...]
Last week’s unfortunate news about another round of pay cuts at the St Pete Times prompted me to revisit a story I have been watching unfold for five years.
I can find nothing written and have only discussed this with a small number of people in the past five years it is time [...]
As an entrepreneur and small business owner I often find myself in conflict feeling comfortable with large corporations. I remember looking into a Sam’s Club membership about five years ago and walking out of the store when they offered, as part of their ”Small Business Membership” to provide me a free website package.
Wait… that’s what I do… [...]
Facebook, often compared in user size to a country would be considered a monarchy, dictatorship or at best an oligarchy. How long are American small businesses safe to operate free of potentially huge taxes (i.e. fees) or other business killing regulations?
This week Burger King announced they would be replacing Miami’s Crispin Porter + Bogusky with agency McGarryBowen after a two month agency review process.
The change is not a surprising corporate reaction considering Burger King has consistently lost market share to McDonalds despite having a new revived “King” mascot that reached [...]
I found an article last week and decided today was a good day to post my thoughts on the subject.
Prompted by the Internet marketing sales pitch I’ve had to endure hearing at a nearby table while sitting in a Starbucks… both of which I try hard to avoid.
I understand we’re in a tough [...]
November 3, 2010 – United States – In an unprecedented come-from-nowhere campaign strategy Facebook swept the 2010 midterm election clearly demonstrating the social network’s flexibility and dominance over other social networks.
Foursquare was an early favorite of political and social media gurus as early as June. A grassroots push had formed to help Foursquare with [...]
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Yelp is my website and app of choice when it comes to finding/reviewing local venues. It's my choice for "checking in" as well.
