Month: August 2017

The end of #highered as a public good

Students take their seats for the diploma ceremony at the John F. Kennedy School of Government during the 361st Commencement Exercises at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts May 24, 2012. REUTERS/Brian Snyder

Nearly a decade has passed since the start of the Great Recession, and higher education has yet to fully recover. Continue reading “The end of #highered as a public good”

Moving away from interruption #marketing

It’s time for brands to get back to “creating the thing” instead of “the thing that interrupts the thing,” writes Andrew Essex in “The End of Advertising.”

When I was a kid in the ’60s, one of my favorite television shows was Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom. It was a wonderful, weekly view of wild animals and their wilderness habitats, narrated by zoologist Marlin Perkins and aided by his fearless sidekick Jim Fowler. The program introduced me to all manner of wild animals and environs while subtly embedding in my brain messages about conservation and respect for all living creatures (even though Perkins and Fowler often resorted to tranquilizer darts to take down and sedate various creatures for study and tagging). Continue reading “Moving away from interruption #marketing”