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Every presidential election subsumes a massive percentage of the news hole. But like everything else about 2020, this one’s going to be an absolute cluster. COVID. Trump. RBG. Taxes. Protests. The Melania Tapes. And there’s more to come, no doubt. And covering it all is a media so bifurcated that CNN’s opinion desk is consideredRead more

Welcome to the August 2020 edition of Top Conversations in Technology, where we break down which topics are leading, rising, and falling each month to help technology marketers maximize relevance and adapt to changing market dynamics. In this month’s analysis, we focus on variations in news and blog citation volumes month-over-month (versus July 2020) andRead more

2020 has been quite the year for news: COVID-19, mass unemployment, social justice protests in the streets, a wildly fluctuating stock market – and then we have the upcoming elections. All this has forced an increasingly stretched media to become even more selective about what it covers. In my last blog post, I spoke withRead more

Welcome to the July 2020 edition of Top Conversations in Technology, where we break down which topics are leading, rising and falling each month to help technology marketers maximize relevance and adapt to changing market dynamics. In this month’s analysis, we’ll focus on changes in news and blog citation volumes month-over-month (versus June 2020) andRead more

Back during my newsroom days, I drove a very nice comms manager at a hot Silicon Valley startup absolutely crazy. Her CEO had come up with a killer idea how to make good use of some of the unused network infrastructure left over from the pre-dotcom crash era. It was clear to me – asRead more

The emergence of the novel coronavirus in late 2019 marked the beginning of a massive social, business and economic upheaval. By March 2020, entire industries were shutting down. Many millions of people were left without jobs, and hundreds of millions more were instructed to work from home. Within the tech industry, companies mobilized to respondRead more

In recent years, a financially strapped media industry has been tasked with the impossible job of doing more with less. This could not be any clearer than it is now. The joke among reporters is that even in the best of times, the media industry is usually in a depression. That may be a bit of exaggeration, but these are clearly not the best of times.Read more

I realize women are expected to hem and haw about their age, but I’m 50 years old and not at all bummed about it. Frankly, being of a certain age has tangible benefits. I’m tempted to plagiarize Farmers Insurance and say something about resilience and “having seen a thing or two,” but I won’t (asRead more

Last month, Barron’s published an editorial by Alex Friedman and Larry Hatheway on the need for the U.S. to move toward more sustainable capitalism. They were right. For the longest time, Wall Street has been rewarding companies that put shareholder value and profits first, often at the expense of their own employees, suppliers and partners.Read more

Since the beginning of this epidemic, one positive part of our ‘new normal’ has been the emergence of what CNN anchor Chris Cuomo dubs ‘AmeriCANs.’ While the ranks of these AmeriCANs include people going the extra mile for their neighbor, as well as the front-line workers doing extraordinary work on the public’s behalf, corporations are also stepping up. From car companies, like GM and Hyundai offering financial relief to their customers to companies like Salesforce pledging no significant layoffs over the next three months, these companies are both buildingRead more