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Quick updates on my work projects and personal life, with some photos sprinkled in.
    What I Learned Teaching College Students about Branded Content

    October 26, 2023

    Last Wednesday I spoke to Wesleyan University students in Dr. Rachel Besharat Mann’s Contemporary Literacy...

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    The Time I Got to be a Branded Content Professor for a Day

    January 7, 2022

    When branded content is done right, everybody “wins”: the audience, the sponsor, and the publisher....

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    A Look Ahead, a Look Back: Content Marketing Trends and Predictions

    January 14, 2016

    2015’s word of the year? Content marketing. If you don’t believe me, ask the Association...

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    B2B Native Advertising on The Rise

    May 27, 2015

    I was happy to share my two cents about native advertising in a recent article...

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    Content Roundup: What’s New in Native Advertising

    October 28, 2014

    Native advertising is the marketing technique of creating content that looks and feels like the...

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    5 Reasons Why Your Company Needs to Invest in Native Advertising and Custom Content (Infographic)

    July 28, 2014

    For marketers, native advertising and custom content are top of the collective mind. By now,...

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    5 content marketing tips from Joe Pulizzi, the industry’s evangelist

    March 14, 2014

    Two years ago, I interviewed Joe Pulizzi, the godfather of content marketing, for a piece...

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    5 key takeaways from day 1 of the iMedia Content Summit

    March 3, 2014

    The iMedia Content Summit in Huntington Beach, California (a terrible place, really… don’t you pity...

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    Everybody’s going native: 3 media powerhouses’ native ad programs

    February 13, 2014

    So far, the 2014 advertising buzzwords remain “storytelling” and “native advertising.”  Brands need help telling...

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    You Go Sir Grout, You Go: 5 Lessons Salespeople can Learn from a Tile Company

    January 31, 2014

    It’s amazing how many sales best practices are universal.  Last week, I was searching for...

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    To create or curate: is that the question?

    January 26, 2014

    I’ve had a few discussions in which marketing professionals will muse, “Shouldn’t we just curate...

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    Content marketing on the rise in Europe

    January 17, 2014

    Mashable’s recent article on content marketing predictions forecasts that “Europe will get the content marketing...

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