There’s No Crying in Baseball… or Marketing

Playyyyy ballllll! Two words I’ve heard yelled across the ball field time and time again. Playing and coaching softball for over 20 years has taught me a lot about life. Like, the number of hotdogs you can eat before a game without throwing up.

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WordPress is Winning (Still)

Developers said WordPress suffered from bloat. Years of open-source additions and requirements of backward compatibility resulted in a mishmash of dead plugins and cumbersome code. Security was also typically discussed at this point.

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The Rise of Fake News and How to Recognize It

Objectivity, balance (get both sides of the story), fact checking (confirm claims with two independent sources), truth, and accuracy are among the many things our professors hammered in to us every day. I’ve been out of the journalism business for 33 years.

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The Death of Client Service in Advertising Agencies

Did you ever play charades with a long-time friend and he or she got your clue from one generic gesture? Or see a couple finish each other’s sentences while speaking? That kind of connection (dare I say intimacy?) comes from a deep knowledge that is cultivated over time in a mutually dependent relationship.

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