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If you need a quick way to clear a room of content creators or marketers, shift the conversation toward a discussion of the project’s taxonomy. If it doesn’t get people running for the exit, it [...]
If Scooby-Doo’s sidekick, Shaggy, and Felix Unger were to have a lovechild, that kid would be my oldest son, Anthony. He’s a 17-year-old lanky (and completely loveable and good-natured) teen [...]
I remember that fall day with incredible clarity. I stood at my kitchen window staring out at my backyard watching the leaves being ripped from the trees and littering the ground. At that moment, [...]
A couple of years ago, after an excruciatingly lengthy commute through the streets of Boston, I slid into a parking space at the local PBS affiliate. Tense from cutting it close to arriving on [...]
For nine weeks we’ve been working on a project with the marketing team of a large organization, developing a content strategy. This project is ghost work, which means we’re part of an agency team [...]
During my years at Emerson College, I was enrolled in a screenwriting course. A requirement was to complete a feature-length screenplay and bring it to the first day of class. I still remember [...]
It’s all gravy: out of the 1900s, marketing comes full circle When my grandparents traveled from Italy to Boston in the early 1900s, they didn’t speak the local language, and Yelp and Google were [...]