Monday, March 15, 2010

David Granger: The Esquire Augmented Reality Issue

January 9, 2010 by Bill Sobel  
Filed under Blog, People

If I’ve learned anything over my working life it’s not necessarily what you know but who you know. When we first talked about doing our Augmented Reality event (coming on Thursday monrning Jan 21st) we were familiar with the Esquire Augmented Reality issue featuring Robert Downey Jr. late late last year. Since I had no [...]

LMK.com: our buddy George K does it again!

October 11, 2009 by Bill Sobel  
Filed under Technology

Congratulations to our buddy, George Kliavkoff, a past (and future) SobelMedia/NY:MIEG  event speaker on the launch of an exciting new product from Hearst LMK.com
“LMK.com’s goal is to curate for customers the most authoritative content on any topic for which they have an affinity and deliver that dynamically-updated information in a beautiful, user-friendly, intuitive layout,” said [...]

George Kliavkoff Update

March 18, 2009 by Bill Sobel  
Filed under People

For those of you who have been asking, I (and a number of others) received the following email from Geroge Kliavkoff.
I asked George if it was ok to share it with you and he said it was fine.
-Bill
Friends:
After enjoying a few months off with the family, I started a new job yesterday at Hearst Corporation. [...]

Quick…name me a middle-aged, rumpled, down-to earth guy who is anything but high-tech in style?

December 21, 2008 by Bill Sobel  
Filed under Technology

According to Wendy Marx, it’s yours truly…and I’m darn proud of it…especially coming from her! Wendy Marx, if you don’t already know,  is an award-winning public relations and marketing communications executive who helps B2B companies and executives become well-known brands. But what she has done for me involves is the blog she writes on personal [...]

BNET and AdAge on Klivakoff NY:MIEG Breakfast!

December 19, 2008 by Bill Sobel  
Filed under Industry News

Two for the price of one!
The story on “AdAge 3-Minute Video” yesterday was so great BNET (CBS/CNET) picked it up and went with it as well.
Special thanks to Steve Raddock at AdAge for the great footage.
NBC’s Kliavkoff: Digital Drives TV Viewership
By Catharine P. Taylor | December 18th, 2008
As media continues to fragment into millions of [...]

Who Will Lasoo The Future of Digital Media?

December 17, 2008 by Bill Sobel  
Filed under Industry News

Thanks to our friends at NYConvergence for a great overview of the Kliavkoff Breakfast
Media’s Digital Future Discussed at NY:MIEG Event
NYConvergence ORIGINAL
At the third annual NY:MIEG holiday breakfast this morning, NBC Universal Chief Digital Officer George Kliavkoff participated in a Q&A session with Limor Schafman, president of The KeystoneTech Group. The conversation centered around media’s digital [...]

Tectonic Shifts in Digital Media

December 17, 2008 by Bill Sobel  
Filed under Industry News

Thank you to Eleanor Haas of The Calyx Group LLC for a great writeup about our breakfast this morning (Dec 17, 2008).
More later this week!

FutureTech Business
Observations on Business and Technology Innovation

“Tectonic” – pertaining to changes in the earth’s crust. “Tectonic shift” was something George Kliavkoff said at least three times in the course of his [...]

Updates from our colleagues at We Media & iFOCOS

December 15, 2008 by Bill Sobel  
Filed under Rants & Raves

Knowledge, ideas and information are flowing like never before. Even in the face of daunting economic challenges, creative companies and individuals continue to unleash a torrent of game-changing services, business models and experiments to make the world better through media. My colleagues at We Media and iFOCOS have a couple of exciting initiatives that I [...]

Monday 12/15 DigIn! Radio with Limor Schafman

December 12, 2008 by Bill Sobel  
Filed under Technology

If you don’t already know it by now, Limor Schafman is a good friend, trusted advisor, colleague and one of the best moderators and panelists we’ve had at our NY:MIEG events.
As a matter of fact, Limor will be hosting our breakfast on Dec 17th with George Kliavkoff
Her new show “DigIn!” is heard weekly on [...]

More Beatles Trivia

November 28, 2008 by Bill Sobel  
Filed under Rants & Raves

Apparently there has been quite a bit of interest in our Beatles trivia courtesy of “Pop Goes The Beatles” so here’s another one:
Q: What Beatles Song was Number One on America ’s Billboard Chart when the boys arrived in America on 2/7/64?
Before I give you the answer I just wanted to remind you about our [...]

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