Not since the invention of the telegraph machine have we had such a game-changing means of communicating at our fingertips. Good messages are getting to the right people as fast as the speed of light and our fingers can type.…

The reality about jobs in the communications field is not a secret. Thinking back to my days at Indiana University, out of my graduating class of 100 maybe ten got jobs working in the communications field — and that includes…

I just checked out the NAB Convention website: http://www.nabshow.com/2013/about/. I read the bumph and looked at the video, but I still get the feeling that despite staggering leaps in technology, the NABShow is either deliberately missing the real point of…

An Op-ed piece in the New York Times over the weekend pointed out that most innovation comes from people of maturity — the metaphoric “gray hairs” — and that the Mark Zuckerbergs and Bill Gates of the world are the…

When I started writing about Specialists the other day and bemoaned the shift technology has imposed on us, I didn’t imagine that I would find an echo for my concerns in the latest issue of Wired. But leafing through the…

I started out in the business of television news/documentary and field production, when it was the world of the specialist — you were the shooter, the editor, the sound person, producer, gaffer — the whatever. In part it was the…

Keeping ahead of the curve means constantly looking at and evaluating new technologies and how they change the communications process. Shakespeare had the eyes as the window of the soul, and Marshall McCluhan had the medium as the message.The ancient Egyptians had the Eye…

New technologies and delivery systems have opened imaginative ways of communicating to viewers, customers and supporters. We have been working on techniques to help our clients get their message through the noise. We’ve even redone our own website. We invite…