Real health care reform

April 15, 2010

My brother was in Phoenix last weekend visiting us from his home in Texas. We got into a conversation about health care.  Sound familiar?  Who hasn’t been talking about health care with family, friends, or coworkers lately? So, my brother brings up that his doctor has recently dramatically changed his practice.  Maybe you’ve heard of [...]

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Expecting Greatness

April 13, 2010

I’m living in Interview World right now. I’ve spent countless hours interviewing for a Sports Program Director position, a News Director/Assistant Program Director position, and now a Talk Show Host position. The interview process involves hours and hours of time on the phone with candidates across the country and meeting after meeting of people we’re [...]

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Showing our sense of humor

April 2, 2010

April 1st used to mean nothing to me.  But, after I joined the team at KTAR that changed. Long ago the station started a tradition of pulling a prank on its listeners on April Fools Day.  It went away during KTAR’s stormy period.  And, two years ago, we brought the tradition back. Each year I [...]

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What is the core of our business?

March 31, 2010

Every company is having conversations about how to adapt to change.  Fact is the changes around us are too big for any of us in any industry to ignore. In traditional media, where I work, the urgency of the conversations has changed.  The fact is radio is not a growing medium.  There is no buzz [...]

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5 Reasons Glenn Beck is Radio’s Brightest Star

March 30, 2010

Love him or loathe him, the fact is Glenn Beck is radio’s brightest star.  No one is gaining listeners faster.  No one is drawing more ink and links. No one has a brighter future right now than Glenn Beck. I’m in a unique position to write about Beck for two main reasons.  First, I’m Mormon.  [...]

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Justin Bieber: The Social Media Pop Star

March 29, 2010

Open up iTunes. Check out who has the #1 selling album in the US right now. It’s Justin Bieber. Those of you lovers of current music know who he is, but I’m guessing most people reading this post have no idea. Justin is today’s 16-year-old pop music superstar.  His single “One Time” owned the pop [...]

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Seth Godin asks: Are you an artist?

March 25, 2010

About to finish Seth Godin’s latest book.  What is this, like #298 in his series of quick reads? This one drags on like many of his others.  But, like most of the others it also raises some unique points and makes you think. Linchpin is a VERY different read than Crush It, which I reviewed [...]

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Can you think differently?

March 24, 2010

So many of us are so limited in our ability to think differently.  We become trapped by routine and experience.  We want to innovate.  We yearn to do things differently, and yet we find it so difficult to move our crayons outside the lines. My mind is on this topic after doing some reading and [...]

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Earth Days Movie to Debut on Facebook

March 21, 2010

Hollywood’s financial problems are no secret these days. While the huge studios try to innovate, it’s once again an outsider that is showing them the way to utilize social networks to market a film. Earth Days is a documentary made by PBS and set to air on the network next month.  The movie documents the [...]

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Read Gary Vaynerchuk’s Crush It Book

March 21, 2010

There are few things in life I enjoy more than making a discovery. Gary Vaynerchuk‘s book, Crush It, is one of the biggest discoveries I have made ever.  Period. Since stumbling on Crush It on iTunes a month ago I have talked about it nonstop.  I’ve sent emails to friends, peers, and family telling them [...]

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