Ira Flatow: TalkingScience Cabaret” on August 8th

Those of you who attended our “radio breakfast” back in July of last year (2007) should remember our good friend, Ira Flatow, host of “Talk of the Nation: Science Friday” on NPR. Also, if you attended our 3D Video event a few months ago you should remember my old friend, Jerry Marks of “Pulltime 3D [...]

The Definition of Generosity

Those of you who received my newsletter this week might have noticed the photograph of the waterfall under the Brooklyn Bridge. My friend, Betsy Aaron, emailed me earlier today inviting me to check her blog posting about it earlier this month. -Bill The Definition of Generosity: Olafur Eliasson by be.aaron He gives you experience: put [...]

The Food Detectives

I read about an interesting new program this morning that will premiere on The Food Network this week called “Food Detectives” that looks like lots of fun…a sort of cross between “Unwrapped,” “Good Eats,” and a bit of “Newton’s Apple” and “Mr. Wizard” ~Bill Food Detectives Scripps Howard News Service July 28, 2008 Premieres tomorrow [...]

Amanda Michel: The 21st Century Journalist

NY:MIEG events are based on three simple critria: 1) meet new people, 2) learn something new and 3) have a good time doing it! And one of the things I am most proud of is the incredible group of friends and supporters as well as some of the most intelligent speakers and panelists around…and my [...]

Criss Angel

Congratulations to our friends Andrew Lipson and Anna George of Image First Productions. They will be producing the webcast for A&E this coming week as Criss Angel escapes from a building about to implode. Image First Productions provides production services for companies and event locations to capture and/or stream events in broadcast quality using multiple [...]

Networking 201

I have had a the pleasure of attending a number of events with Joel Ordesky and they are all excellent. This one in particular is worth attending if you plan to be in the Los Angeles area next week. Many first time networkers ask me “now that I have agreed to attend your event what [...]

15 Second Pitch

Laura Allen is a longtime NY:MIEG member (a true FOBS) and a very special friend. I have been following the success of “15 Second Pitch” and glad to see her do well with it. I wanted to share with you a current update I received today. -Bill Dear Bill, My partner Jim and I are [...]

Ed Koch Movie Reviews: “Days & Clouds” & “The Dark Knight”

Movie Review: “Days and Clouds” (+) July 21, 2008 This film moved me emotionally. Although it takes place in Italy, it could be a snapshot of what is currently happening across America. The central characters are Michele (Antonio Albanese) and his beautiful wife, Elsa (Margherita Buy). The couple, who appear to be in their 50s [...]

Can We Control The Digital World?

Technology Has Let Us Reshape Our Lives, But With This Revolution Come Regrets Fascinating article in todays WSJ from Jason Frey This is the final Real Time column, and I’d like to use it to consider what I see as a dominant theme of our digital age, one that’s emerged again and again in this [...]

Julie Roehm Ready For Primetime!

Those of you who read this blog regularly, and attend our breakfasts know that Julie Roehm is a good friend (a true FOBS) of mine as well as an early supporter and fan of our events at NY:MIEG. For the record, Julie and I first met when she was at Chrysler in 2002 and stayed [...]

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