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The Price Of Failure

Mon, Jan 1, 2020
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One of my long-standing pet peeves with the field is its willful evasion of examining failure. There’s too much paranoia over controlling narratives and fear of negative donor reaction that we not only miss out on learning from failures, but we begin to spin them as success. Worse still, there are plenty of examples where

Taking Stock Friday

Fri, Jan 1, 2020
Sometimes, it feels like the days just melt away, but it’s better to be busy than bored. To that end, here are some of the things that occupy my time as of late. Consulting Work I’m very happy to say that the musician employment agreement model I wrote about back in April 2019 is starting

One Week From Today = Brand New Star Trek Music!

Thu, Jan 1, 2020
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Are you excited for the Star Trek: Picard series premiere one week from today? All things being equal, that means the powers that be could begin releasing music from the series as soon as the same day. Hopefully, we won’t have to wait until the end of Season 1 and if we’re lucky, CBS will

A Good Reminder That You Don’t Always Pick Engagement Channels

Tue, Jan 1, 2020
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While yesterday’s article examined the highlights from the 2019 reader survey, there was one particular item that warranted a separate post: RSS feeds. Among the new questions in the 2019 survey was one asking readers their primary point of contact with articles. For those indicating a daily or weekly email subscription, the survey included a

2019 Readership Segmentation Survey Results

Mon, Jan 1, 2020
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The Readership Segmentation Surveys routinely produce intriguing insight and this year was no exception. Having said that, it’s been a few years since our last examination and the added time gap produced some eye-opening perspectives. Demographics & Occupation Direct reader responses confirmed something Google Analytics has been indicating in that the division of readers across
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