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Born to Multitask

August 24, 2010 Insight
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Hi, I’m Becca. I’m a Gen-Y, Type-A, multitasking machine. I’m part of a generation that is expected to crank out quality work with frightening efficiency. We shave off the fat between idea inception and execution. We brainstorm in our sleep. We tweet. We write. We design. We produce. We respond to hundreds and hundreds of [...]

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The Numbers Don’t Lie…Usually

August 3, 2010 TMG on Video
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Data can be a double-edged sword. On one hand, access to information can provide insights that assist in making decisions that help move your organization forward. On the other hand, access to information can cause the onset of organizational paralysis, where mountains of data serve as roadblocks to actually getting anything done. So where do [...]

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How Do You Have Time For That?

July 8, 2010 Insight
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I have been wanting to write this post for a while. But I haven’t had time. I figured I’d do it eventually. But project deliverables got in the way. So did happy hours. And so did sleep. Don’t get me wrong: I kept writing it on my to-do lists. I definitely wrote it down more [...]

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Content is Everywhere

June 22, 2010 Insight
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Writer’s block—it hits at the worst of times. Like right before I sat down to write this. A phrase used by one of my coworkers snapped me out of it: “But content is everywhere.” It can be as simple as taking your camera out while walking around the neighborhood and discovering a new local hangout. [...]

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I Don’t Know

June 8, 2010 Insight
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“I can’t know everything.” A co-worker at a previous job once said this to me. He wasn’t being flippant. He was explaining to me that it’s OK if we don’t know everything. It’s OK to admit you don’t know the answer to a question and that you may need to conduct research on the topic. [...]

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Convince Me

June 2, 2010 Convergence
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So the inevitable conversation has finally arrived in my household, initiated by an innocent question by email: I think we should get android phones. Our phones are useless for anything other than calls, and everyone who has smartphones LOVES them. It really makes me wonder what we’re missing. Ever the late adopter, I have to [...]

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The Masses Are the Media

May 13, 2010 Insight
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A long time ago, in a media landscape far, far away, there was a theory. The theory was a marketer’s dream. It was even given its own marketing-style nicknames like The Magic Bullet Theory and The Hypodermic Needle Model. According to the theory, communicating with an audience worked something like this: You load up your [...]

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Are You Spamming in Real Life?

April 23, 2010 Insight
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This morning on my way to work, I saw someone handing out business magazines at the top of the Metro escalator. Being a media nerd, and feeling the beginnings of a blog post germinate, I stood and watched for a while. I asked if I could take her picture (I thought maybe I could write [...]

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Tools Versus Toys

April 21, 2010 Insight
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New inventions enter the marketplace on a daily basis. The range of products is wide – from kitchen gadgets to exercise products to social media monitoring devices – but they all sing the same chorus: “This product will change your life.” And they’re probably right. Incorporating a new product into your day-to-day routine will have [...]

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Why You Should Probably Ignore This Post

April 14, 2010 Insight
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Be honest: How many tabs do you have open in your browser right now? And how many times will you stop to check your email, IMs or Twitter while reading this post? There are too many links to click, blogs to subscribe to, Tweets to Retweet, books to read, and oh yeah, work to do. So [...]

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Where Do Americans Get Their News?

March 30, 2010 Buzz
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If you’re trying to figure out the dominant platform for news consumption in America – the single platform that Americans rely on over any other: good luck. (Chart: % of Americans news source accesses in a typical day ) That’s because only 7% of Americans rely on one sole source for news consumption and the overwhelming [...]

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