Taking Risks for Great Social Storytelling

Art and social media are not necessarily things that you would think compliment each other. One seems a thoughtful, deep and meaningful media while the other is often regarded as fleeting and meaningless. However, Dan Fletcher who is founder of Beacon, a startup that connects readers and writers to fund journalism and artist Tanja Hollander beg […]

SXSW Marketing Expo Through Google Glass

The SXSW marketing EXPO allows start ups to established brands a place to set up booths and focus on introducing new products promoting special deals and serve as a general trade show. Using Google Glass today I walked through the marketing expo to see the hundreds of booths that vendors had set up to display […]

Glenn Greenwald

Glenn Greenwald appeared before an audience 10x smaller then Edward Snowden’s panel. He didn’t need to be patched through 7 proxies to speak with SXSW, and he spoke from what looked like an office in his house. His panel hit home on what journalism should be. For the people. His work with Snowden has been […]

If Content Is King Who Is Sheriff ?

I spoke with Kristina Easthham early in the year on the panel. Coming from an agency perspective, a copywriting perspective, a journalism perspective and a multi media perspective the panel was well represented in the different areas to talk about the moderation of content that is being produced online. The panelist spoke about the complexities […]