What did you say?

Misunderstandings are a cornerstone of comedy. From Jack Tripper and his roomates to Abbot & Costello figuring out who is playing what position to Koothrappali and Wolowitz’s skills with the ladies there’s a great tradition of laughing at people who had small problems getting their message across to one another. Of course in comedy, those misunderstandings [...]

Assume or Understand

Last night I had the pleasure of attending my first Skillshare class. It’s a startup I’ve admired and after going to their springbreak party and meeting so many great people I decided I was way past time to start taking and teaching classes. Kristina Drury was teaching Design thinking techniques for non-profits & entrepreneurs and I jumped on it. [...]

Say No

They might get mad I may lose the business The kids won’t feel like we’re buddies My employees won’t like me anymore My spouse will be dissapointed My boss will be upset I’ll hurt their feelings There might be press at that event If I turn it down, my competitor will take it My friends [...]

Perfect, a cautionary tale

A tale of three opportunities, enjoy. One Once upon a time there was an opportunity to do work for a fairly established internet brand (older than 4 years!) and our hero knew immediately there was no one better to handle this. He had the connections, the buy in from the stakeholders that would be needed, [...]

Do you have a personal board?

I’ve had one or two opportunities kinda blow up in my face over the past few weeks. No big deal, right? Crap happens, you adjust and you move on. And normally, that’s my attitude and my approach. But this time I couldn’t bring myself past it, because I screwed up. A simple action in each [...]

The Daily Warmup

So I have the good fortune of having awesome kids. My wife busted her hump (along with a little help from me here and there) and put so much of herself into the 3 of them that they are remarkable people and I have some great conversations with them. One of our recurring themes is [...]

4 Takeaways from Society of Professional Journalists Region 1 Spring Conference

While tutoring at R1C12, I realized there was a common thread among some of the advice I was giving and it had to do with an event strategy. I advised several of the organization heads I spoke to to become the person at the event offering to put everyone on camera, whether video or still [...]

Socializing with the Society of Professional Journalists

On March 23 and 24th the Society of Professional Journalists held their Region 1 Spring Conference (#r1c12) and I was honored to be invited in as a Social Media Mentor. As much as I love teaching, I definitely learned more than I shared with all the talented professionals that were there. Moving, inspiring , funny [...]

Speaking at Newsday’s FollowLI12 Event

I had the honor of being invited to speak at Newsday’s FollowLI12 event on February 23rd. [View the story "Speaking at Newsday's FollowLI12 Event" on Storify]

Newsday’s 2nd Tweetup – FollowLI12 on 2/23/12

This past Thursday night, Newsday held their second tweetup at their offices in Melville. I had the pleasure of being at the first one, which was a blast. This year Carl Corry and crew switched it up by limiting invitations to people who were profiled in the paper’s FollowLI section in 2011. Just wanted to post [...]