The Publicity Hound: NY:MIEG “The Cool Way to Network with Cool People”

This past week I received an email from Publicity Expert, Joan Stewart, who’s website The Publicity Hound at shows people how to use free publicity to establish their credibility, enhance their reputation, position themselves as experts, sell more products and services, promote a favorite cause or issue, and position their companies as employers of choice.
She [...]

Update: Tomorrow Will Be Televised

I received a nice note from Simon Applebaum, host of the weekly internet radio program “Tomorrow Will Be Televised” and I thought you’d find the update of interest.
-Bill
Happy midsummer, Bill! No doubt–off reading your MIEG blog–that all is well and you are making the ultimate of the season.
Just wanted to let you and your [...]

Let the NBC Games Begin!

Here we go…another 17 days of non-stop Olympic action…and NBC wants to be sure you don’t miss any of it. Not only am I a long time Olympics fan, but I am especially excited about some of the new technologies they will be using on the digital side…for a good reason. My friend,  [...]

Flock: Cool New Browser from the folks who brought you Firefox

I was reading Walt Mossbergs column in today’s Wall Street Journal about the new browser from Mozilla called Flock. I have been a Firefox user (another Mozilla product) for almost as long as it has been around and I love it…it works effeciently, and safely on both Mac as well as PC. Now it appears [...]

Frasco Banned From Facebook

Stephanie Frasco is a good friend, a colleague as well as a smart, savvy and well respected social media marketer.
Last week Stephanie’s account was disabled by Facebook. Writing in his blog deconstructing.net, author Jonthan Vanasco talks about how this is not as much about Frasco and her account, but the notion that these social [...]

“All You Need is Luck: How I Got Record Deal by Meeting Paul McCartney”

You might remember a few months ago I was honored to be included in Jason Alba’s book “I’m on Facebook…Now What?” The book was published by a small Northern California publisher “HappyAbout” started by my friend Mitchell Levy. Mitchell and I have been talking for months about me writing a book about my experiences as [...]

MoMA: Looking at Music – Media Art of the 1960s

In the 1960s, the decade that saw astronauts land on the moon, artists were likewise seeking to expand boundaries of time and space and to have new experiences. At the same time, portable video equipment reached the consumer market-suddenly simultaneity and “now,” the present and the past, became content. Musicians led the way in developing [...]

Where Were You on August 1, 1981?

August 1, 2008: MTV Turns 27!
Eeks! believe it or not it has been 27 years since television as we know it changed forever…MTV was launched…and the new phrase was “I Want My MTV” (thanks to Dale Pon and Fred Seibert).

And where was yours truly? Just a week or so before I was working at ABC [...]

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