We’ve been spending a lot of time looking at, and talking to people about, crowdsourcing and crowdfunding as part of an initiative we are working on here at Elasticity. It’s been an interesting learning experience, and one of the centers of the crowdsourcing universe is, quite aptly, Crowdsourcing.org, which tracks the space. If the term [...]

Last week, as part of my regular column for Forbes, I wrote a piece called “St. Louis Doesn’t Suck” that struck a nerve with a number of current and former St. Louisans, as more than 120,000 people had read it as of this post. Clearly, something clicked. I had moved here six years ago and [...]

Welcome to the Big Show. In our last installment of Forbes “Two On Two,” Jason and I discussed the brand marketing fallout from recent doping accusations made against cyclist Lance Armstrong and examined findings from an Arbitron/Edison Research study on social media use. This time around we look at the recent sale of MySpace and [...]

As I originally wrote for Forbes, there was a moment during the recent implosion of Congressman Anthony Weiner — which just became official last week — that should have sent chills down the spine of anyone who guides communication strategy for organizations, politicians or other public figures. The New York Times reported that conservative operatives [...]