After an almost 30 year career as a successful actor and performer, I became aware of a significant decline in the quality and quantity of work being offered when I hit my 40s.
WASHINGTON — The Senate sided with traditional retailers and financially strapped state and local governments Monday by passing a bill that woul...
Congress has just spent an agonizing several weeks debating background checks for gun purchasers and whether such checks would violate the second amendment. Yet at the moment there is no law to stop foreigners from electronically sending bomb-making instructions into the United States.
Social networks can and should contribute to knowledge-based societies in the Arab world but their users and the direction they take need closer inspe...
As our country has focused enormous attention in recent days on the rights of one minority, gay men and lesbians, we continue (alas) to give short-shrift to the decades-long effort to achieve equality for millions of people in another segment of our population: Americans who were adopted into their families.
Pew worries that newsmakers are more adept at putting their message out without reliance on "any filter by the traditional media." I'm not sure the "filter" of the traditional media is a good thing. Or if it is, the burden is on Pew to show how and why.
Our generation may have invented the Internet, but we're merely stewards of its possibilities. Until a generation that knows no different takes the reigns and shows us the true power of what we've created, its full potential will be unknown.
This is a summary of a commentary that appeared in the third issue of Middle East Media Educator. I'm disheartened, but not surprised, by comments f...
New media is hardly a "new thing," yet events like the NMX Expo (January 5 to 8, 2013 in Las Vegas, NV) continue to attract huge numbers as they seek to learn and understand all the opportunities available in new media.
By the gods, what took so frakking long?
With a limited number of hours per day, the time-consuming platforms of the current, receding social media wave -- Facebook and Foursquare -- will face stiff competition from the next wave of personalized search and full engagement. Don't believe me?
Understanding trends and catching a wave in the marketplace is one of two important elements for creating exponential growth. When coupled with outstanding execution, one's performance can yield results a factor 20 higher than normal.
Come on, admit it. You've Googled your name. Actually, it's a good idea. You should know what is on the Internet about you. Usually you'll find such...
Ever wonder why so few people visit your website? It might be your fault.
Those who have the time, inclination and money can afford reputation defenders and lawyers who can makeover their online personae. But what does this do for the democratic, free-for-all nature of the World Wide Web?
I really hope you see this. I don't know how else to get in touch with your friend -- you know, the really hot one in the ATO sweatshirt?
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Without people who are savvy in using the technical for the political, the written for the social and the leadership to keep the team together, online campaigns crumble from weak links.
As a former newspaper reporter, occasionally I was assigned to report on a subject I didn't know well. I learned that if I don't know what questio...
Small business owners have had to become more resourceful but many lack the knowledge and time to research and implement even the most basic internet strategy.
With little fanfare, the State Department has abandoned America.gov – an ambitious digital project launched three years ago to promote Democracy abr...
Groupon has poached Googler Margo Georgiadis to be its COO, Chicago Business reports. Georgiadis was VP of Global Sales Operations for Google....
Conducting Internet research is a challenge. It's time consuming, often confusing and who ever thought too much information could be a problem? The I...
The Internet is the "greatest spying machine the world has ever known," WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has warned in a speech. While the Web holds g...
