Mark is the Senior Director of Online Marketing for Stone Temple Consulting. He is a sought-after speaker at national conferences such as SMX, and a regular writer for several prominent marketing sites. Mark also engages in competitive storytelling and plays in a New Orleans-style street parade band.
One of the icons of the Industrial Age is the time clock (aka punch clock – maybe because you’re very tempted to punch it). In my youth I had a factory job where life was ruled by that clock. In a rack on the wall by the clock were punch cards for each employee. When […]
Haiku Deck App Review A product review is not something you’ll see very often here on New Media Leaders. Maybe never again. But it’s been a long time since I’ve been this enamored with an app…and an app to create presentations no less! Not something one usually gets worked up about. The powerful secret of […]
If you commuted to work today or drove on errands, you passed through an amazing social miracle several times, but I’m certain you didn’t stop to think about it even once. But you did stop. Because the “social miracle” to which I refer is the ubiquitous traffic light. Think about what happens at traffic lights […]
The gift is to the giver, and comes back most to him–it cannot fail… – Walt Whitman I’ve been reading the modern classic The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World by Lewis Hyde, a book I ordered upon seeing how much Seth Godin referenced it in his book The Icarus Agenda. Hyde explores the […]