Month: April 2018
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Honest Feedback Is Not “Being Hurtful."
A few months ago I went back to teaching marketing, and the first thing I did with the class was an exercise. The students broke out into groups of two, interviewed each other about their personal brands, then returned to sit in front of the room in pairs. One group at a time, each pair…
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UX without biz dev CX sucks eggs.
Here are some common mistakes business development professionals make. Not taking the time to understand the user’s business. Impersonal, random, canned approach lines. Too many “follow up” emails without value to the reader. But the worst mistake of all is one I rarely see talked about: failing to talk UX in the user’s language. If…
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A Pre-Benghazi Story The Media Should Cover: "Libyan Orphans Sold As Sex Slaves" (2011)
On May 9, 2011, a year and four months before the death of then-U.S. Ambassador to Libya J. Christopher Stevens, someone posted this with the headline: “Libyan orphans sold as sex slaves by the European/NATO people.” We do not have the provenance of this photo, which appeared on another site, one providing alternative news analysis and opinion.…
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An Audacious Dream For The Independent Media
Let’s get Vice News to do an objective segment on child sex trafficking, in America and around the world. Here is my dream: Elle Reeves confronting John Podesta. I have a dream that we prepare Elle Reeves for the interview. We start with John’s weird pizza emails. We start with John’s relationship to a controversial…
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Trust The Plan
Think. Step Back. We need to talk about The Plan. Trust the Plan. It can be hard to have faith amid the crazy world we live in. There’s just no other word for it. Example After Example We learn that the times before the Messiah will involve a kind of reversal of the normal order…