Would you let your child buy a virtual sofa for their room in Habbo Hotel? Let’s forget about the fact
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The Pending Digital Disruption
How many times a week do you hear someone say, "it’s a shame what happened to the music industry?" or,
Continue readingCTRL-ALT-DEL – It's Time For A Business Reboot
Maybe the Internet changed much more than we think? Maybe businesses have to reinvent not only themselves, but the entire
Continue readingPrint Is Not Dead
We tend to lump all industries who rely on print in the same (soon-to-be-extinct) boat as the newspaper industry. Those
Continue readingWhat Will Be
Tomorrow is a big day. You don’t have to be a Mac Fanboi to say that. You don’t even have
Continue readingThe Problem With Free
If you got everything for free, do you think you think you would feel the same way about it as
Continue readingPicture This
There is lots of discussion around how certain companies have adapted to the digitization of their industry. From music and
Continue readingThere Is Nothing New Here
It’s almost hard to believe that there are some New Media pundits who actually say, "there is nothing new here"
Continue readingLoving What You Do
"Passion" is one of those words that is thrown around in every motivational business book. It’s a big word, and
Continue readingWhen It Comes To Reinvention
When it comes to reinvention, who is best to lead to the change? Is it the old guard, the new
Continue readingThe Death Of Scarcity
Editors used to control the journalists and decided which words made it to which pages. Music companies used to control
Continue readingWhen Everything Fits In The Palm Of Your Hand
Does something become more popular if you make it easier to do? There used to be this running joke about
Continue readingOn Selling (And Marketing) Books
BookCamp Toronto is just about to wrap up. It was an amazing day that lived up to its tagline of
Continue readingThe Most Valuable Book You Ever Read
As BookCamp Toronto is about to start, it go me thinking about what, exactly, books are and what they really
Continue readingWhen Less Is More
When the rules change, sometimes the ways in which companies are paid needs to change as well. This is becoming
Continue reading6 Steps Towards A New Economy
As we move out of the recession, we need to be prepared for how business will adapt as companies, once
Continue readingThe Quarter Mile Stretch
Imagine if every three months you were expected to make more money, lose more weight, be a better community member,
Continue readingThe Miracle Of Publishing
Many of us are in awe over what’s happening to the newspaper industry. Many of us worry that the book
Continue readingMarketers Are Behind The Times
As if watching the major label music companies implode and the pending mass destruction of the newspaper and publishing industry
Continue readingQuality
You can game the system as much as you want. You can push, prod, provoke and even create a ton
Continue readingWhen The Only Thing That Can Save You Will Also Kill You…
A fascinating article from The New York Times titled, MediaNews Sees Bad Timing On Newspapers, Not Bad Bets, by Richard
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