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 [...]

There are numerous scandal topics that are sure to derail the good reputation of nearly any person or organization. From theft to lying, drug use to domestic violence, bigotry and the list goes on. But if there were a granddaddy of them all, arguably it may be sexual misconduct – which reputationally is possibly the [...]

It’s a wonderfully automated age we live in. Want a book? Download it from Amazon. Want to hear a song? Fire up Spotify and it’s there. At any time, you are practically two or three clicks away from getting access to any digital property. Unless you want to buy Microsoft Office online. We recently bought [...]

Several times a year Mary Meeker, Morgan Stanley’s head of global technology research, delivers a presentation about Internet trends. This time, at a Web 2.0 conference in San Francisco, she focused on the issues that have gotten the attention of everyone in the technology space: global and mobile. The facts she reported are nothing short [...]

Dearest Blog Readers, As you’ve probably noticed, Facebook is in the midst of some major changes. As always, we are diligently reading, monitoring, experimenting and analyzing to be on top of the channel updates and ahead of the curve when it comes to impact for our clients. We’ve put together a short point of view [...]