United, We Stood

It’s easy to reflect now, but what started that night in March became overwhelming.  We fell in love with the team on the pitch, with amazing, young,  previously unknown (at least to us) players like Miguel Almiron, Josef Martinez and Yamil Assad, and older veterans I’d heard of but didn’t “know”.  The atmosphere at Bobby Dodd started off at an…

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Review

As we near the end of 2017, I near the end of my first year of blogging. Actually, I’ve blogged for many years on business topics, for various sites and media outlets, including eConsultancy, Forbes, CMO.com and now, Digital Doughnut. You can look me up at those places, and at Clicktale, and see my thoughts about an industry I’ve been part…

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Morning

  “It’s Morning Again in America”. I’m old enough to remember that phrase, from a storied TV commercial from Ronald Reagan’s 1984 presidential campaign. It was such a hopeful statement. Morning’s represent new. The dawn of a new day.   I’ve never been a morning person, figuratively, or literally.  My mornings for the last few years (i.e., the smartphone years)…

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Present

I’ve been present, but quiet.  I’ve taken a short sabbatical from writing. The impetus for creating Genuine Fake Watches was to share my thoughts in longer form and with more thoughtfulness than social media allows. I've been present, but not ready.   I’ve been present, but also very conflicted. I like social media because it enables me to stay in…

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