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Kodak’s User Group: Paneling

Monday, April 12th, 2010

Blogging live from the Graphic Users Association conference (sponsored by Kodak) in beautiful Vancouver, B.C. Just finished a K-Zone panel discussion moderated by Noel Ward, with Lisa Cross (Graphic Arts Monthly), Justin Searles (InfoTrends), Mark Michelson (Printing Impressions), and myself. I am told that video will be posted some time in ...

Playing Media Twister for Fun and Profit, or A Pizza the Action

Tuesday, March 30th, 2010

This week’s excerpt from the forthcoming book, Disrupting the Future: Uncommon Wisdom for Navigating Print’s Challenging Marketplace by Dr. Joe Webb and Richard Romano, takes that general idea a few steps further, and offers six concrete strategies for making the transition from a “printing company” to a new communications logistics ...

Unleash Your Inner Artist: Six Strategies for Success

Thursday, March 25th, 2010

Previously on Disrupting the Future: In last week’s ERC newsletter/blog post, we talked about the difference between finding and creating opportunities, and how the true entrepreneur—like a true artist—is able to “see” things in nature or the market that no one else and sees, and feels compelled to bring those ideas ...

Carve the Stone Away: Creating vs. Finding Opportunities

Wednesday, March 17th, 2010

This week’s excerpt from the forthcoming book, Disrupting the Future: Uncommon Wisdom for Navigating Print’s Challenging Marketplace by Dr. Joe Webb and Richard Romano, looks at one vital issue for the “renaissance” of the printing industry, pun intended: to think like an artist. The following will also appear in the weekly ...

Disrupting the Power of Print

Wednesday, March 10th, 2010

A version of this post is going out to subscribers of the Economics and Research Center newsletter. (What? You don't subscribe? Well then, be sure to sign up here.) It contains excerpts from the forthcoming book Disrupting the Future by Dr. Joe Webb and myself. Watch for the announcement of ...

Print Across and Down

Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010

I posted bits of this over on my personal blog, but some of it seems appropriate to repurpose here, as there is one place I found where print will remain alive and well—for the foreseeable future, anyway. Last weekend, I competed in the 33rd annual American Crossword Puzzle Tournament, held at ...

Social and Antisocial Media

Thursday, February 18th, 2010

I was meeting with my accountant last week, and since I am always curious as to what other professionals and businesses outside the printing industry are doing, the subject of social media came up—LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, et al., and he just sighed and said, “You know, I just don’t want ...