In January, the Kaiser Family Foundation released a study on young people’s media use entitled Generation M2: Media in the Lives of 8- to 18-Year-Olds. I came across the study thanks to a post by Chas Edwards at Digg who called out some really interesting stats such as: Young people are spending more time per day consuming media on a

“The media that is good at creating conversations, is no good at creating groups.  And the media that is good at creating conversations, is no good at creating groups” – Clay Shirky from TED@State Thanks to Mitch Joel, I came across this great video from June 2009 where Clay Shirky shared the above quote.  Mitch was dead right when he

I find it hard to believe, but today marks the two year anniversary of Hard Knox Life. As I did last year, I wanted to mark the anniversary by recapping my favorite posts that I have written on the site. I decided to include a handful of posts that made the Year One list, as well as a couple of

The other day, Miles Nadal, Chairman and CEO of MDC Partners, shared this quote from David Ogilvy, which I promptly retweeted: “Don’t bunt. Aim out of the ball park. Aim for the company of immortals.” The quote really resonated with me because it is the type of gusto we don’t see all that often in business any more, especially in

Broadly speaking, the most difficult thing in business is trying to make a sale to another company.  This holds true whether this “sale” is an entrepreneur trying to raise capital, an agency pitching a new campaign idea or a start-up trying to get a brand to buy their platform. But despite this being one of the toughest things in business,