The Social Media BubbleThe Social Media Bubble

Sometimes I worry that I’ve succomb to the social media bubble. When you spend a lot of time reading, thinking, writing, and talking about social media, and you’ve acquired a handful of friends and colleagues that are doing the same, it can start to seem like the [...]

Maybe We Need a New Mop

Or so implied Jonah Lehrer (and if you just clicked through, yes, he really was that adorable), at last week’s TCG Conference in Chicago. The NPAC blog recaps Jonah’s story nicely:

In his talk, he shared scientific [...]

Branding Yourself Through Technology and Social Media

Branding Yourself Through Technology & Social Media

View more presentations from Devon Smith.

On Sunday, I’m leading 3 back to back forty-minute roundtable discussions on personal branding for Career 360 [...]

Theatre & Social Media: TCG 2010

The Theatre Communications Group 2010 National Conference wrapped up last night. I heard word it was the largest in the conference’s history, clocking in at just under 1,000 attendees. A sizable chunk of those folks live tweeted several breakout sessions, mostly under the #TCG2010 moniker.  My presentation, [...]

What do YOU want to know about Theatre and Social Media?

I’m putting the final touches on my TCG Conference presentation, and realizing that as usual, I have way too much ground to try to cover in 1.5 hours. Problem is, I fly off for Chicago in T-minus 9 minutes; well, that’s when my cab is arriving to begin [...]

A Rant Against FacebookA Rant Against Facebook

Ok, not Facebook per se, but a rant about theatres using social media inauthentically. I get it, you’re busy, there are a lot of social media platforms, and you’re not exactly sure which one(s) are worth your time. So, you decide to link your Facebook account to your [...]

13 Lessons on Innovation13 Lessons on Innovation

Yale SOM Integrated Curriculum

This is the story of 3 people (and organizations) who taught me 13 incredibly important lessons about innovation. Take a moment and get to know them, and then I’ll jump into the lessons learned.

The Players

Mercy Corps is pretty cool. They describe themselves as, “a team [...]