Cambridge Analytica — Psy-Ops and the 2016 Election March 20, 2018 If you’re reading this, data is being collected on you. It’s a fact of life on the internet. The handful of data companies I’ve talked to claim to own 5,000 pieces of data on nearly every American adult. (Can you even come up with 5,000 things about yourself?)One such data marketer, Cambridge Analytica, has floated up in various news cycles recently, much of it…

A Powerful Story that Forever Changed Halloween October 29, 2017 In the dusty memories of my little-kid Halloween days, I fondly recall making costumes out of Dad’s ties, aluminum foil, old towels and mom’s lipstick... and there I was, Cinderella, ready to trick or treat. People served up treats of fresh candied apples, brownies and a handful of Bazooka Joes.Then one year something truly terrible happened. Halloween got scary and not because of ghouls, egg…

A Town Spins Love Into Gold October 6, 2017 Few things in the world are more inspiring than a 12-year-old winning the life and death battle with cancer. Hannah Boorse is legend at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Pediatric unit. Her grit in the face of the world’s scariest disease impressed the doctors and moved her entire town to support her.So it was a pretty cool day to shoot a soccer game fundraiser where Hannah’s entire…

Let Your Business Be A Great Story September 13, 2017 Over the years, I have told a thousand business stories; both for biz fans who watch CNBC and CNN Business News and for mass audiences at CBS News. I admit it. I’m a geek. Bringing those stories to life is a labor of love. Where some people only see data and charts, I see risk taking, faith against the odds. I see the turnarounds, the…