Blindness – "Sounding Off By Profession" Clip from Tariq West on Vimeo. It strikes me as odd how we use occupational labels to describe people outside of a work context. I remember sophomore year of college when I was applying … Continue reading
There are certain essential elements which anyone who writes about social media, web 2.0, gen-y, personal branding, careers or closely related subjects should be aware of. They form a canon, a sort of tao, if you will. Let's begin at … Continue reading
Back in December in a post on the Open Government Directive, social media expert Steve Radick wrote, "The rights and responsibilities of U.S. citizenship are changing, and we [government practitioners] need to be educated—at every level—on how and why to … Continue reading
Every once in a while someone conceives of a commercial campaign that hits with the realness, poignancy and vision reminiscent of the Great American Novel (adapted of course for a commercially saturated generation with a 30 second attention span); a commercial which captures the frustrations and aspirations of its time and holds them to the light of the nation’s most cherished ideals. Continue reading
Over the past few years I've been a voracious consumer of online content, particularly blogs; recently I've decided to engage more actively in the conversation. I am more than a little bit nervous about this first foray into the blogosphere. … Continue reading