First…Consistency New York Times Journalist Brent Staples, a Pulitzer Prize winner for his coverage on race relations, has been writing about U.S. Military base names for years. Two days before George Floyd was killed, Staples published another editorial piece on the military issue, entitled, Why Does the U.S. Military Celebrate White Supremacy? In it, Staples […]
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I started my publishing career in 2000. Over the next seven years I worked with over 30 different media brands from a dozen different industries, welding to restaurants to HVAC. Maybe more than anything, I learned about the power of the subscriber. It was well known information inside the company that loyal subscribers were more
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A few days ago I chatted with a social media manager for a mid-sized software company. She was exhausted. She and her team were responsible for managing LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and YouTube, as well as some smaller tests on Reddit, TikTok and Snapchat. Basically, their charge was to be everywhere their customers were, even
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This week, I heard Kara Swisher from ReCode say that the COVID-19 pandemic isn’t changing trends, just accelerating what was already happening. A few minutes later, I heard Professor Scott Galloway from NYU Stern say the same thing on his podcast. It’s happening in grocery pick up and delivery. It’s happening with plant-based meat. And
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NOTE: Before you read the information below, I want you to know that I’m generally a very optimistic person. For example, I believe there are so many good things to come in the next three to five years. I believe that the economy in the next decade is going to flourish. I believe we’ll be
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My wife and I were watching the last 20 minutes of Angel Has Fallen on Netflix. We hardly ever watch full movies. We just pick the last part of a movie and watch the end. Go figure. In it, Morgan Freeman (the President) says this – It’s our moments of struggle that define us. I
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Everything feels weird. Maybe you know the feeling. I live in Cleveland, Ohio, and we are all under “shelter in place” orders to prevent the spread of the COVID-19 virus. Of course, you are dealing with this as well…literally wherever you are at. What’s going on is tragic. People are dying, and will continue to
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