A Step-by-Step Guide for Success With campaign finance reform, never-ending political corruption and the emergence of the increased power of the citizenry using online technology, this means politics is due for a grassroots-based upheaval. If not, it should be. With that in mind, this step-by-step guide to launching a grass roots political campaign is a [...]
March 14, 2009
And the importance of a research-based mindset There appears to be a fundamental underestimation of the importance of research. Yet those in research fields, or those trained in research methodologies, quickly learn the difference between opinion and innuendo versus data-based knowledge. It’s not to say one is inherently superior over the other; rather, data-driven knowledge [...]
February 27, 2009
10 Ways to Deal With Social Media Gone Awry I had the bright idea this week to create a second Twitter account for myself, one to separate my ‘personal’ account from one that represents my ‘professional’ persona (don’t laugh please … it’s a work in progress). Dovetailing on this thought was another idea to see [...]
January 30, 2009
Bill Sledzik’s blog, Tough Sledding, is one of the very few I get excited to read when a new post shows up. So it was with anticipation that I was waiting when it was announced on Tough Sledding the he and Andy Curran, associate professor at the University of Cincinnati-Clermont College, were to release [...]
January 10, 2009
Relative newcomers facing exposure to online media appear to have adopted assumptions about the uniqueness of these technologies. With that in mind, here are five points to be considered -- basically, that media as we know it today has roots back to hunter-gatherer rock art.
June 1, 2009