Business, innovation, Technology
Welcome to the era of brainbelts. A brainbelt is a term coined by Antoine van Agtmael and Fred Bakker to talk about the transformation of traditional rustbelt cities in the U.S. and Europe into centers of global innovation. van Agtmael said in remarks at the Brookings...
innovation, Mobile, Technology
It’s no secret that I’m fascinated by design thinking. We’re increasingly connected to, by, and with “things.” So how we interact with objects and devices – and that we can interact with them — becomes less a question of convenience and more a universal...
innovation, Mobile, Technology
I received a Lollipop upgrade. An Android Lollipop upgrade. While I liked the Jelly Bean operating system, I love what Google is doing here. While most system upgrades are strictly under the hood, this one is different. I could see the impact immediately as there is...
innovation, Marketing/PR, Social Media, Technology, Workforce
The Mid-Atlantic Marketing Summit is one terrific conference. And I’m pretty skeptical when it comes to conferences; a lot of the time I find myself in sessions doodling or diving into my reading backlog, or outside walking the halls talking with other stragglers. In...
Business, Data, innovation, Technology
I’m fascinated by Bitcoin. Not the currency per se, but rather the “why” and “how” of it. I’m excited, for example, by initiatives to create a more-transparent financial system. Don Tapscott and Anthony Williams talked about this in...
