I’m getting inundated with emails that somehow get through our spam mail filters. They basically all start out by telling me that in this economy I am certainly going to want to maximize this or minimize that and these guys really do that well, and click a link to find out more. Read more…
Communications & News Business, Doug's Thoughts On New Media, The Economy, Political & Cultural Environment
Breaking news: “Research In Motion (RIMM) is working on a second-generation touch-screen BlackBerry Storm that could be available through Verizon (VZ) as soon as September, according to UnwiredView.com.” Read more…
Communications & News Business, The Economy, Political & Cultural Environment
I started a home-based one-person investor relations firm in 1991, just as cable investment/financial news was starting to be identified as a viable commercial market. I worked at home until about 1997. I do not remember when I started throwing objects at the TV when watching CNBC but it was between those years. Read more…
Communications & News Business, Quick Takes, The Economy, Political & Cultural Environment
This is a version of the presentation I gave on the evening of February 25, 2009, to the We Media’s Game Changers Conference, held at the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Fl, in which I discuss my thoughts on the present state of communications and emerging trends. Enjoy! Read more…
Basic Theme Of Death Of Time, Business Model Issues, Communications & News Business, Doug's Thoughts On New Media
MediaBistro.com is an important and widely read source of news for the media community. It is very robust in its scope of coverage, and provides a constant diet of news, features, information of interest to people in the business, and interactive conversation. They link to a number of Read more…
At the December 2, 2008, “New Washington” conference held at The National Press Club , I gave a brief presentation on how I believe the convergence of the economic downturn and the new political environment will give rise to a decline in Read more…
As I am watching the coverage today on CNN of the terrorist attack on Mumbai, the coverage goes to the anchorperson who says “We just want to talk about the other major news story that is happening now ….” And he gave a brief report on a Read more…
In my post “The Organic Message,” I discussed my view that messages can attain a life of their own and that the more they achieve that status, the more powerful they become. Those messages that achieve a state of “existence” can be considered to have become an Read more…
In my last post (“The Message Is The Medium”), I suggested that it is possible to employ a wide variety of distribution channels to communicate messages so potently in terms of packaging, targeting and frequency that the messages become virtually ubiquitous to the people receiving them. I consider such messages to be “organic.” Read more…
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