By Tamar Abrams The global COVID-19 pandemic has upended our lives and, possibly more significantly, many of the assumptions we make about the impact it is having on the world. For example, with human beings on every continent engaging in some form of quarantine for an extended time, early reports were that our lack of activity was greatly impacting the…
May 19, 2020
Immigration and Family Separation: a personal story
You can catch Sascha Burns representing her clients on the Hill or talking politics on Fox News, MSNBC, and local and international news channels, but Sascha’s life beyond the camera includes helping refugees seeking asylum in the United States. “When family separation came to light, I was so angry at what the Trump administration was doing in the name of…
April 29, 2020
Changes in Online Advertising: Take-Aways from the Turner4D Seize the Conversation Forum
The Turner4D Seize the Conversation Forum Series kicked off to a great start with an all-star team of social media experts including our very own Dr. Alan Rosenblatt, Craig Johnson of Unfiltered Media, Peter Ludgin of a4Media and Chuck Westover of Next Level Media. Our experts reviewed the opportunities and changes with Facebook and Google advertising and discussed tools like…
Editor’s Note 2019.05.22: Insert bots. Editor’s note 2011.10.11: With Rick Perry, Mitt Romney, Herman Cain and the rest of the Republican field set to meet tonight for the Bloomberg/Washington Post debate, now is the perfect time to inaugurate Backchannel, what we hope will become an ongoing conversation between practitioners and close observers at the intersection of technology and politics, hosted on…