The Evolution of Education

I’m thrilled to find out about Academic Earth recently, a website that offers free online video courses from leading universities. Want to go to Berkeley, Ivy League schools, NYU, or UCLA but unable to? Well, now you can tap into the brilliant minds at these institutions. Similarly, as TED spreads ideas, I get to increase [...]

Interview of MediaBistro Founder

Anthony Tjan interviews Laurel Touby, founder of MediaBistro, for Harvard Business Review, providing valuable insights about building a business and harnessing fundamentals to building a community.

 

What I found interesting about the way that Laurel built her media company was developing offline and online communities making her company a hybrid. She created a valuable online resource [...]

A Plea for Pat Robertson’s Context

If you’re on twitter, the current reaction to Pat Robertson is scary. The tweetdeck is full of hatred for Pat Robertson; full of curses, blasphemies, and death threats. The tweets are flooded with rage and chants to burn Pat Robertson at the stake, and it spreads as fast as wild flowers. That is the power [...]

A Marriage: Television and Social Media?

I’m seeing a trend between social media and television. Although I usually watch my two favorite TV shows from my computer to avoid even Tivo, I did find myself on the couch the other day with the remote control and the commercials were on. There is a lot of talk going on with social media, [...]