Can Singapore Tweet, Facebook, and YouTube its Way to a Multi-Party Democracy?

May 6, 2011

If you wanted to investigate the impact of social media on politics, you couldn’t ask for a better test case than Singapore.  Tomorrow, Singapore goes to the polls for watershed elections and, for the first time in the nation’s history, [...]

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Understanding and Filtering Crowdsourced News

April 20, 2011

The utility of social media to report breaking news is well documented, but verifying and filtering information remains key to understanding the underlying trends. Just consider these two examples:  In March 2010, the Egyptian stock market dropped by over 6 [...]

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The Coach: Secrets of Presenting

April 8, 2011

My first post discussed the importance of storytelling in spoken-word presentations.  Human history and tribal lore were passed from generation to generation stories.  Stories are remembered. However, there are limits to what stories can do. Think of the presentation as [...]

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