Ed Koch Commentary: The Obama/Biden Team

With Barack Obama’s selection of Joe Biden as his running mate, the Democratic Party Presidential ticket is now complete.

I have known and admired Joe Biden for many years, having served with him in Congress. While I have never met Barack Obama, I have come to know him through his speeches and television appearances during the primary and now in the ongoing general election. He is a highly intelligent and honorable individual. Read more

NBC Olympics: Digital Media Challenge?

The Olympic Games: Most Challenging Digital Media Supply Chain Ever?
Posted August 25th, 2008 by Tom Ohanian

The just-concluded Summer Olympic Games featured an unprecedented amount of coverage over an equally unprecedented series of distribution types. Consider some of the pre-event statistics cited publicly:

* A minimum of 3,600 hours of broadcast coverage

* A minimum of 2,900 hours of live programming

* A minimum of 2,200 hours of streaming coverage on NBCOlympics.com Read more

E.Factor Event Sept 10th in NYC “New Economy: Do or Die”

An excellent commentary from Kevin Kelly

An Evolving Global Industry
E.Factor Conference 10th September, New York “New Economy: Do or Die”

We are living in challenging times! We are technically in a recession, or recovering from it, depending on whether you see the glass as half full or half empty. As always, we can hole up or find hidden opportunities to turn an adversity into something positive.

Kevin Kelly’s brilliant essay on New Rules for the New Economy has this to say:

“As power flows away from the center, the competitive advantage belongs to those who learn how to embrace decentralized points of control.”

“As fortunes are made by training machines to be ever more efficient, there is yet far greater wealth to be had by unleashing the inefficient discovery and creation of new opportunities!” Read more

The Village Elder and the Mentor/Mentee Relationship

My good friend and colleague Adrie Reinders, Co-Founder and CEO of the E.Factor posted an interesting article in the Business Exchange Forum section of the site today and I was so impressed I wanted to repost it here. In addition, I will be posting my thoughts later today.

The Village Elder

Looking at the development of people, you can broadly speaking classify 4 stages: learning & development to around 20, finding your place in society till 30, make a career & start mentoring others till early 50’s en then it’s the final stretch - easing out of a working life and retirement. Read more

Panera Bread: Newest NY:MIEG Partner!

As I mentioned in an earlier email, you are going to see lots of exciting change over the next few months and I want to be able to share them with you…starting with our newest partner, Panera Bread.

I have been in discussions with Panera for the past few months…not only about catering our events but becoming a NY:MIEG partner. Our “Author in Residence Event with Brian Reich” was our beta test and it was incredibly well…even Frasco was impressed! Read more

Frasco & Emmy: Separated at Birth

Shalom: And Welcome to the Democratic National Convention

An interesting article from JTA: The Global News Service of the Jewish People

A religious Democratic convention?
Ron Kampeas

JTA News Service

Jewish voters and organizations are often among the first to object when Republicans and Christian conservatives attempt to inject religion into politics. But this year the Democrats are jumping into the religion game — and looking to rabbis for help. Read more

Ed Koch Commentary: “Mr. President, Speak Softly and Carry a Big Stick”

Ed Koch Commentary
August 15, 2008

(Following his tenure as the mayor of the city of New York for three terms from 1978-1989, Mr. Koch returned to law practice. His career in government began in 1966 when he was elected to the New York City Council. In 1968, he was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, where he served on the House Committee on Banking and the Appropriations Committee. He also was secretary of the New York Congressional Delegation.)

The best advice to President George W. Bush on how to conduct foreign affairs with Russia is still the comment of Teddy Roosevelt, “Speak softly and carry a big stick.” Regrettably, the Washington, D.C. crowd, including the President and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, are instead speaking harshly. They seem unaware that we no longer have a big stick in hand. Read more

Katie Couric: Webcaster

Couric Working Overtime for CBSNews.com, CNET.com

Katie Couric to anchor live, Web-exclusive specials from 2008 Democratic, Republican National Conventions following primetime coverage on CBS. Read more

Adrie Reinders: Chinese Tea Ceremony & Multimedia

My good friend a business colleague, Adrie Reinders, writes a regular column on GroundReport.com (founded by another friend Rachel Sterne) and this week was all about ways of networking/connecting in the old China and the way we think about networking today. I thought is was well worth sharing it with you.

Chinese Tea Ceremony & Multimedia

by Adrie Reinders August 17, 2008

After doing a TV interview this week on TCT, and spending every spare minute watching the Olympics - it is not so strange to think about the ways of networking/connecting in the old China and the way we think about networking today - with all the media we have available to us. Read more

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