Ron Lundy: Goodbye to a Radio Legend

Chances are likely most of you…especially those under the age of 40 will probably have no idea who Ron Lundy was…but if you lived in the NYC area and had spent anytime listening to Musicradio 77 WABC you know the name. Ron was one of the most popular djs on what was…without a doubt…the most [...]

Robert Raciti: In The Loop

Our good friend Robert Raciti did a spectacular job this past week on one of the financial panels at the Media Summit…so much so that the woman next to me asked if I happened to know him…obviously I did and the woman turned out to be Betty Liu…the morning news anchor on Bloomberg Television.
Following the [...]

Maria Bartiromo: 10 Laws of Enduring Success

We are pleased to announce that our next special event at Samsung will be “An Evening with Maria Bartiromo: 10 Laws of Enduring Success” on Wednesday evening, March 31st from 7p-9p at The Samsung Experience at Time Warner Center NYC
By: Gloria McDonough-Taub
CNBC, Senior Editor, Blogs
CNBC’s Maria Bartiromo is at it again – sharing her knowledge [...]

Does anyone care what Paterson has to say

I received the following email from the Governor’s office in Albany. My question, does anyone really care what the Governor has to say?
Fellow New Yorker,
We are facing a fiscal emergency in New York State. When I announced my 2010-2011 Executive Budget proposal in January, we projected that our State faced a $7.4 billion budget deficit. [...]

Eric Bader: New Chief Strategy Officer at Initiative

congratulations to our good friend, and former panelist Eric Bader!
(from Media.asia.com)
Initiative appoints Eric Bader to newly created global role as chief strategy officer
by Kenny Lim
GLOBAL – Initiative has hired Eric Bader (pictured) to the newly created global role of chief strategy officer.
Reporting to Richard Beaven, Initiative’s worldwide chief executive, Bader joins its worldwide leadership team [...]

How To: Escape From Google’s Clutches, Once and For All

Interesting article from GIZMODO from my friend Marshall Sponder (via GoogleBuzz)
So you’re fed up with Google, and you’ve got a litany of reasons. You don’t even have to explain—I’m just here to help you crawl out from under the shadow of the big G, step by step.
You don’t have to be ready to commit to [...]

Uncorking Gary Vee…thanks to Victor Lee

My friend, Victor Lee joined us on Feb 17th for our event “Uncorking Gary Vaynerchuck…” and filed this great overview.
I attended SobelMedia’s latest event, an interview of Gary Vaynerchuk by journalist Ellis Henican of Newsday and Fox News on the evening of February 17, 2010 at the Samsung Experience at the Time Warner Center.
Gary Vaynerchuk [...]

Gary Vaynerchuk: Meets the FOBS at Samsung on Feb 17th

Thank you again to everyone who attended our event on Feb 17th “Uncorking Gary Vaynerchuk: an in-depth interview with Ellis Henican.” Not only was it our first evening event of 2010 but one of the best turnouts we have had in a very long time. A special thank you to everyone at  the Samsung Experience, [...]

Content Is the Salt and Pepper. Social Media is the Steak.

Thanks to my friend Karen Levine for a nice write up on our event last night with Gary Vaynerchuk
I’ve just walked home in my doctor-disapproved pointy toed boots from a Bill Sobel event at the Samsung Experience featuring Gary Vaynerchuk, aka Gary V.
I didn’t start taking notes until 15 minutes into the talk because I [...]

Tiger to Apologize?

from Newsday via AP
MARANA, Ariz. (AP) — Tiger Woods will end nearly three months of silence Friday when he speaks to the media for the first time about his middle-of-the-night accident that sparked shocking revelations about his infidelity.
Woods will talk to a small group of reporters at 11 a.m. Friday from the clubhouse of [...]

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