October 2011
1 post
7 Things I Have Learned About Local Media
After a 20+ year career in B2B media, I made the leap earlier this year to local media. Why? Two things drove my decision: 1) Business transformation in the media space is my passion and while consumer and B2B are well on their way to new, sometimes radically different business models, traditional local media is still struggling with the basic transformation issues of business model, culture,...
June 2011
2 posts
15 years ago, on Fathers Day, my 5 year old son...
On Father’s Day in 1996, my son Ryan was diagnosed with Leukemia. This year, to honor Ryan and his 15 year battle against cancer and the serious disabilities that his treatment left him with, my family and I are participating in the Leukemia Society’s Light The Night Walk. You can find our fund raising page here http://pages.lightthenight.org/sj/OysterPt11/5OclockSomewhere Please...
Reflections on using Twitter after my first 1000...
I looked at my profile the other day and low and behold, I had composed my 1000th tweet. This got me thinking about why I had joined Twitter way back when, how I had benefited from it, and quite frankly, was I spending WAY too much time on it. Here is the story:
Back in the RBI days we were pushing very hard to change the editorial culture of the company. Led by @danblank, we were evangelizing...
