October 03, 2016
Bio-Hacked Students | On the Outer Edge of Digital Citizenship
A Smarter, "Better" Student
To be clear, I am referring to students who arrive at school bearing super tattoos, embedded chips or other implants that improve their...
October 02, 2016
Unexpected Teachers
Zipping around the globe, I often find myself in the back of a taxi or an Uber. I used to painfully ruminate in frustration – sitting in traffic is a total waste of time, after...
September 29, 2016
Brokering baseball cards: A Q & A with ACE alum Michael Osacky
Michael Osacky is a 2002 graduate of the College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences. With a degree in commodity, food, and textile marketing, what led him to...
September 27, 2016
World Access for the Blind | Navigating the World Using Flash Sonar
“It's impressions about blindness that are far more threatening to blind people than the blindness itself.Think for a moment about your own impressions of blindness. Think...
September 26, 2016
What Your Sports Memorabilia May Be Worth
Brian Noonan (in for Nick Digilio) welcomes Michael Osacky of Baseball In The Attic who appraises listener’s memorabilia on the air!
Source: WGN Radio
Want to bring...
September 26, 2016
Another Overuse Issue
In one of my previous writing tips, I discussed how distracting overusing certain gestures can be for your readers. The same can be said for overusing uncommon adjectives.
I...
September 23, 2016
3 Things You Should Know About Reputation
By Jonathan Salem Baskin
Corporate reputations and brands are not the same things, and it’s important to understand the difference.
Reputations are the result of what people know about a business...
September 21, 2016
How to Disrupt a Meeting
As a futurist, I've attended thousands of events over the years. Some good, some bad--yet ironically, despite the fact that most meetings are focused on innovation, the basic...
September 21, 2016
7 Hacks to Make Your Conference Unforgettable
Hack 1: Send a Pre-Survey
Everyone surveys afterward, but by then it's too late! Learn what people want before they come. In fact, at Zappos Insights we found that...
September 20, 2016
Attack of the Mean Mommy (beware the false hope-bearers)
By Constance Rhodes
Recovering Approval Junkie
This morning I googled “hope,” looking for the perfect image to accompany this post. Instead, I found myriad counterfeit hope-bearers – everything from pictures of stone...
September 20, 2016
Why "Everybody Just Get Along" Isn't a Good Long-term Strategy for a Healthy Family
In working with family-owned businesses for several years now, I’ve seen one pattern of relating that consistently doesn’t work over the long term. In many families there...
September 20, 2016
The Death of Comfortable
Today we mourn a death. The death of Comfortable.
HE CAME INTO OUR LIVES UNINVITED, SEEMING TO APPEAR OUT OF NOWHERE, ONLY TO BECOME A PERMANENT FIXTURE.
A silver tongued ...