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What a blast speaking to Board members last weak about how to structure the org chart effectively and what questions the board has to ask of the business and IT to be ready for this massive AI wave. Email me at Bruce@Narrative-group.com if you want a private link to the entire talk.

We are open for business, fellow minions. Check out the previews for the #newsletters: - "Shakedown Street" covers #news, #sports, the #media, #comedy, and more than the usual fluff in discussing the news. Comments from the gallery accepted on all fronts. - "Event Laughers" is designed for the #Conference, #Event, #MeetingPlanners and #DMC community, with news, opinions, education, entertainment and featuring our comedians delivering customized laughs for every event. The first preview newsletters and a few news & opinion columns are their for your perusal. This is an email #subscription. Click the proper box and subscribe. You may unsubscribe at any time, though if you do, there will be wailing and gnashing of teeth. No AI bots to censor the news and conversation. New editions of both newsletters will begin soon, as will plenty of comments and discussion. Yes, there is a place to send along an email with opinions and ideas. Of course, you can also use this email to contact us about newsletter sponsorship. Good to get in now before we explode. Hope to see you there, and please pass on to several thousand of your closest friends. Let's rock. #socialmedia #B2B #opinion #realnews #journalism https://lnkd.in/eE6Ekppz

As a Simpsons fan, I'm letting out a Homer-style 'Woo Hoo!' that some smart social media outreach has led to the iconic Cypress Hill x London Symphony Orchestra joke collab becoming a reality 🙌 I'm sure you remember *that* 1996 Homerpalooza episode where – as well as boasting top tier guest spots from Smashing Pumpkins and Sonic Youth – Cypress Hill accidentally book the LSO as their backing band while, um... under the influence. Fast forward a couple of decades and the eagle-eyed social team at LSO, then led by the brilliant Jo Johnson, boldly replied to a Cypress Hill tweet referencing lines from the episode ("Do you know Insane In The Brain?" / "We mostly know classical, but we can give it a shot...") The whole thing snowballed and a few years later that fictional gig has become a reality: Cypress Hill and the LSO are playing the Royal Albert Hall and have amassed a deluge of amazing PR. The lesson for those of us working in Social Media and Community Management? Sometimes it pays to take a playful and bold punt, and well-pitched pop culture throwbacks (as well as not taking yourself too seriously) can reap incredible rewards. #socialmedia #communitymanagement #marketing

Opportunities...Evaporated! First! If you're in the TV business, and you aren't reading #SeriesBusiness by Elaine Low for The Ankler, then you're missing out. The excerpt below from her piece today titled, "Sell a TV Show to Paramount+ Today? Agents Answer", stood out to me. Basically, it is a quote from a veteran in the industry pointing out that the contraction in original programming will not just lead to fewer shows from minority groups, but that it will also stagnate the careers of an entire cohort of minority writers, likely leading to many of them leaving the industry for good. The Peak TV era that gave us Blackish, Insecure, Atlanta, and Power appears to be over, and swings like those are going to be few and far between over the next decade. I wish I could say this was unforeseen, but it wasn't. I've been calling this out for a while. Heck, it's the reason I started BlackOakTV. I presented on this subject during my last days at YouTube. There was even a slide on this very matter in BlackOakTV's first pitch deck. As you should know, there has long been too many creative Black people not pursuing their dreams of writing and creating serial content for audiences because they have been systemically limited in an industry birthed with the full intention of leaving Black stories, and the people who create them, behind. Thankfully, the contraction in Hollywood is coming at the hands of a blossoming internet. And while that latter world is still fraught with barriers, disparities, and unknowns—unlike Hollywood, it does not lack for opportunity. As we are attempting to do with BlackOakTV, finding your audience online is easier than it has ever been. And it will likely only get easier going forward for those who have something to say and the wherewithal to say it. No, the audiences, on average, won't be as big as they used to be. But they'll be more powerful than ever. And while that too comes with issues we're not yet ready to deal with as a society, it does at least open the door for more democratization of content than we've ever had before, and I'm looking forward to what that hopefully means for Black content on our platform and beyond!

What are your kids/grandkids watching on their screens? Today, parents are letting screens parent their kids. Want better content? Don't miss this @InfluenceWomenAtlanta event & hear from experts on how to change the media & change the culture. Tickets at influencewomen.org.

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What are your kids/grandkids watching on their screens? Today, parents are letting screens parent their kids. Want better content? Don't miss this @InfluenceWomenAtlanta event & hear from experts on how to change the media & change the culture. Tickets at influencewomen.org.

Today is National Radio Day! So let's celebrate with a lesson from the most memorable use of a radio in an '80s movie - Say Anything. In one of the most iconic scenes in movie history, our awkward but endearing protagonist - Lloyd Dobler - decides to go beyond the chocolates and flowers to win the heart of the school valedictorian - Diane Court. He parks his sweet blue metallic Malibu down the street from her house, gets out, and proceeds to hold a large boom box over his head with Peter Gabriel’s “In Your Eyes” cranking through the neighborhood on full blast. It is his dare-to-be-great moment. So, what did the love-struck kickboxer Lloyd Dobler teach us about today’s workplace? ➡ For most of us, our jobs and, ultimately, our careers are very important to us. They define a portion of who we are. A portion. Not the whole. They are typically things that we are passionate about and things we care about. They are places where we feel we fit in and where we can find the greatest success, however you define it. ➡ However, as we build our careers and our success, we can find ourselves following the old adage of “that’s how we’ve always done it.” We find a system or a process, and we continue to follow it day after day, year after year. It delivers results, so why not? Fair point. ➡ But does that attitude give you a chance to be memorable? Does it get people — better yet, your competition— talking? Does it go viral in the modern sense? Can you put your stake in the ground and say, “Our team did that”? Probably not. ➡ Lloyd didn’t rely on the staples: chocolate and flowers. Nope. He took the dare and used the great Peter Gabriel, a boom box, and a little ingenuity to create something memorable; something that would most certainly have gone viral had it been done in the internet age rather than the days of the touch tone phone. So take the dare. Find your Peter Gabriel, use your ingenuity, and be memorable. #ingenuity #creativity #bedifferent #nationalradioday

When I was a freshman in high school, I tried out for a big talent show with a standup comedy routine. I waited to hear if I got accepted, and later that day, the committee called and asked me something I wasn't expecting. If I wanted to host the show instead. I guess my stage presence was better than my comedy. 😅 The show had over 1,000 people in attendance, and I prepared relentlessly for every 1-minute segment between acts. It went great - and that experience gave me the confidence to say yes every time another opportunity on the mic presented itself. I got to emcee a dodgeball tournament, host the high school talent show, speak to all the student-athletes at my college, and work as a color analyst for NCAA Track meets after I graduated. The one thing all of these events had in common was that my confidence and success were always tied to how much prep I put in. It might take a minute, a month, or much longer to prepare for a moment in the spotlight, but nothing is worse than being underprepared when everybody is watching you. And had I prepared better for my original comedy routine, I probably would have been IN the show instead of hosting it. It doesn't matter if you're delivering a sermon, hosting a webinar, pitching a prospect, or crafting a keynote. Investing the time to create a clear message will pay off every single time. #leadership #publicspeading #communication #marketing #storybrand

Why do humans like to play so much? NPR shares an amazing illustration of where it comes from in our brains and how deeply innate it actually is. I love sharing this video with clients and colleagues who are curious about play. https://lnkd.in/gHqT6Zxs #brainsatplay #playmatters #prioritiseplay