Communications
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Biographies, storytelling and the hero’s journey
Ben Wallace-Wells writes a fantastic article for The New York Times featuring David Axelrod, Barack Obama’s chief strategist, or by his own description the “keeper of the message.” The article demonstrates the crucial role of biographies, storytelling and the hero’s journey. Barack Obama has currently two memoirs in circulation. The first, Dreams From My Father,…
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Battle for votes “social media style”
Barack Obama announced his candidacy for the 2008 presidential election today. With this announcement, a new Web site was launched on www.barackobama.com. I first noticed the campaign logo in the top right corner. How very Web 2.0, I thought. Of course, Obama’s new site has a, by now obligatory, blog, but what I thought was…
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Chicago arts organizations catch Bears Fever
Chicago is going crazy over the Bears upcoming trip to the Super Bowl. Even I, fan of the other kind of football, found myself watching the game in a sports bar last Sunday. Now some of Chicago’s arts organizations have contributed to the Bears Fever raging through the city. First, the Lyric Opera of Chicago…
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Et tu, Mr. Wales?
“Jimmy, I love Wikipedia. It’s an amazing creation — one that I use every single day. Like you, I want it to be as accurate and objective as possible. I admire the fact that you strive tirelessly for these ideals.” That’s how Scott Baradell over at Media Orchard describes Wikipedia in an open letter to…
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One hundred posts later: why I blog
This week I reached another milestone: one hundred blog posts. Quite remarkable, especially when I look back at my first post in which I wondered out loud whether or not I was going to keep it up. Before the first post in February, I started in September 2005 with content management software. The idea back…
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