The Wizard of Wall Street joined Twitter May 2 during a CNN Money/Fortune interview at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. "Warren is in the house," he sent. The Oracle of Omaha followed later that afternoon with:

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The Oracle of Omaha explained stock market psychology to a local television reporter more than 50 years ago, a new documentary reveals.

I wrote and directed Mr. Buffett the Teacher, which premiered Friday night to two sold-out shows at Bob Miles'

Meet the Press Executive Producer Betsy Fischer Martin was in "immediate planning mode" Tuesday when I saw her before a talk to Omaha college students.

It takes a full week to produce the one-hour show, she said. Yet, 24...

Your fidgeting may be about current challenges to effectively use social media in internal and external strategies. In a sense, we are all still adjusting to the Internet age -- even though it is now more than two decades old.

Conversations this semester in my Social Media Metrics course reflect...

Google Hangouts, a smart way to connect with online groups, seems to be catching on quickly.

From President Barack Obama to the MIT Media Lab, people appear finally ready to get comfortable with video chats within group settings. Google's publicity suggests that, "Seeing someone's face can make all...

The Christian Bible says in John 8:32 "the truth will set you free," and an Omaha area 20-something woman is living by her faith.

Tunette Powell gathered over the weekend with family and friends for the release party of her first...

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Amber Case's TEDTalk, "We are all cyborgs now," has garnered more than one-half million views, but the case for her argument is worth examining.

"I would like to tell you all that you are all actually cyborgs,...

Radio broadcasters have long understood the emotional value and power of the human voice, yet current social media have not yet fully leveraged this.

In an age of computerized telephone systems, the human voice can be lost. Vehr Communications in 2011 noted the frustration surrounding automated systems: "When...

It has been a great year for driving student engagement, and the teaching moments from 2012 offer insight into the future value of higher education.

Students examined political extremism demonstrated in Facebook memes from the Left and the Right. Professors and their students could...

Decades of war in Afghanistan have led some to doubt the future, but one brave woman I met last week believes educating the country's girls will make an important difference.

Razia Jan, a CNN "Heroes of 2012" finalist, visited as a guest...

Twenty years ago, investor Warren Buffett accepted an Omaha Press Club Education Committee invitation to spend an hour talking about media. At the time, I had lived in Omaha a little over three years but had already learned to follow his teaching.

I decided...

Every website visit and click on the internet leaves a trail, and that makes social media quite different from the mass media world defined by newspaper subscribers and readers, radio listeners counted by quarter-hour ratings, television households and cable viewers.

In my last column, we established that a lot of...

Miles Feldman's, "Is privacy dead?" question has not settled the issue in 2012. In his February Huffington Post piece, Feldman outlined everything from online exhibitionism to government regulation and essentially said, "not so fast" to abandoning privacy: "Even in this...

On the airplane ride from Chicago to New York, the 4-year-old across the aisle was "swiping" quite proficiently on his dad's iPad. The boy, dad said, had learned to read on the tablet.

When I looked up at the luggage compartment, there was a solitary ant crawling along at 39,000...

The 15-hour flight from Atlanta to Dubai offers plenty of time to prepare for a stay in the United Arab Emirates. This was my first trip to Dubai City, which has a rich history and a forward approach to economic development. Clearly, Dubai is moving toward tourism, as oil revenues...

The ancient Polynesian wayfinders would have been at home in Palo Alto, as the Academic Summit this June focused on media as now entirely social.

Storytelling for all forms of media -- including journalists and PR pros -- is both the central...

If you are under age 35, perhaps your eyes were drawn to Matt Miller's Washington Post comment suggesting "young Americans get the shaft." His basic argument is that earnings are down, globalism is coming, and higher education costs are rising too fast.

It is fair to examine why...

The recent transit of the planet Venus across the Sun again demonstrated the power of social media. NASA, which produced hours of live coverage from Hawaii on Ustream, had more than two million views. Sharing of the link to the site on Facebook, Twitter and other social locations...

U.S. newspaper hiring data reflect a peak year of 1989, and mainstream media have been downsizing large staffs ever since. The State of the News Media 2012 report highlighted that:

• 54 percent in the U.S. get news from a desktop or laptop computer
• 44 percent...

The Berkshire Hathaway offer to buy the Media General newspaper chain, on the heels of Warren Buffett's hometown purchase of the Omaha World-Herald, should offer the industry a shot of long-term optimism. Buffett's simple model is to buy well-managed companies at lower than value stock prices. In other...