10 2018 August
Victorinox and How To Use Powerfully Ordinary Videos For Marketing
One piece of advice I am fond of sharing from the stage is about the importance of showing your work – something we are told...
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18 2018 July
Can Hyperlocal Apps Actually Make Us Interact With Our Neighbors?
The idea that neighbors might want the food you won’t eat might seem far fetched depending on where you live. Yet the hyperlocal food sharing app...
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08 2018 June
How Twitter Is Killing Our Culture (And Why We Probably Won’t Fix It)
Is Twitter useful anymore (or was it ever)? Most of us who have been on the platform for some time have likely experienced a downward...
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09 2018 April
Extinct Animal Zoos, Ungendered Baby Names And How To Save Social Media
Social media is under attack and all of us are trying to figure out what to do about it. Should we use Facebook less like...
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02 2018 April
Selfie Medicine, Luxury Marketing And How To Get Paid To Watch Netflix
This week my story picks range from exploring the future of luxury marketing and healthcare to addictive game design to the world of people who...
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15 2018 March
Why We Love Fake Stories, Perfume That Smells Like Nothing And My Slides From SXSW
I spent the early part of this week at SXSW and one of the themes of my talk (see slides here) was our shifting relationship...
Read Now08 2017 August
Your Next Camera Will Retouch Your Pictures While You Take Them
Starting with a set of 5,000 images that were retouched by five different photographers, Google and MIT built an algorithm that can automatically retouch a...
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Food Transparency and When Storytelling Can Backfire
Storytelling can shape consumer perception, but it may also have an underappreciated downside. When journalist Amy Wu was invited by Iowa Select Farms to tour...
Read Now24 2017 July
Tinder’s Redesign Prioritizes Your Looks and Profile Photos
Judging whether you want to get to know someone romantically solely based on their photos has become such a commonplace behavior that “swiping left” has...
Read Now25 2017 June
Instagram Launches Feature To Let Users Archive Embarrassing Photos
This week Instagram quietly rolled out a feature to let users archive posts to hide them from the public. In a world where many users...
Read Now21 2017 June
The Swiss Town That Banned Travelers Posting Photos On Social Media
How do you get attention for a sleepy little Swiss ski resort town that few people have ever heard of? Ban photos and promise to...
Read Now20 2017 June
Brazilian Publisher Offers On-Demand Clever Captions For Your Selfies
Sometimes it is hard to pick the perfect caption for your selfie, but Brazilian publisher Leya has a solution to help … and introduce you...
Read Now19 2017 June
Facebook Helps Make Politicians Care About You
It is a sad reality of politics just how often politicians seem to cater to the loudest of their constituents. Making noise may not be...
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