by Bruce Turkel | Jun 20, 2011 | Uncategorized
Twitter has forever changed the way people communicate because being limited to 140 characters forces writers to be succinct. Even if you dislike Twitter, you can thank it for forcing people to shorten their prose. As editor Arthur Polotnik wrote, “You write to...
by Bruce Turkel | Jun 13, 2011 | Uncategorized
I was a kid back in the dark ages of transistor radios. If a friend told me about a cool new song, I’d tune in to WQAM and wait until they played what I was waiting for. Usually it would take an hour or more if the song was hot. While I waited I’d get my cassette...
by Bruce Turkel | Mar 7, 2011 | Uncategorized
Many people who make speeches and presentations think speaking is about communicating facts. Because they’ve read books on public speaking or have listened to the old three-step plan for making a presentation, “Tell them what you’re going to tell them, tell them, tell...
by Bruce Turkel | Sep 14, 2010 | Uncategorized
The Miami International University of Art and Design presented a panel discussion on the Golden Age of Advertising as part of a exhibit loaned from the Hartman Center for Sales at Duke University Libraries, Not Just Mad Men. The panel featured Barry Zaid formerly of...
by Bruce Turkel | May 17, 2010 | Uncategorized
Barry Lowenthal has been thinking about Foursquare and it’s worth hearing what he has to say: Lately I’ve been a keen participant on Foursquare, a mobile GPS-enabled social network that launched last year at SXSW. I was late to the game and downloaded the mobile...
