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Archive for June, 2009

Be Magnetic

By Jason Moriber • Jun 29th, 2009

You need to create messaging that displays your active-ness and to keep at it. In short, be interesting. The bonus: you ARE interesting, it’s a question of how you share it without sounding like you’re boasting.



Wise Elephant’s Jason Moriber, LIVE! (NYC)

By Jason Moriber • Jun 19th, 2009

Wise Elephant’s Jason Moriber, LIVE! (NYC)
Build digital relationships that drive the traffic to your portfolios/sites! Be actively marketing your work in the manner that matches the behavior of the buying audience. Project your verve, skills, and passion for your craft.
Please join us on JUNE 25 from 6-8PM @ WORKBOOK’s NYC Offices: 210 West 29TH St, [...]



Analysis: The YouTube Tea Leaves: Stock Imagery, as a Business, is Not Sustainable

By Jason Moriber • Jun 17th, 2009

The recent analysis of YouTube’s earning potential by Credit Suisse (reported here and here) points to a big red blot of ink, YouTube is losing lots of money, remains totally subsidized by Google earnings…



Please don’t skimp your clients

By Jason Moriber • Jun 16th, 2009

Last night my family chose to get together at a restaurant we’ve enjoyed in the past. Food has been good, the service, the atmosphere, all good. The waitress asked us for our drink order…



Google, Artists, & a Value Grade

By Jason Moriber • Jun 15th, 2009

Technology can be a friend to creatives, offering them tools to enrich their creative process. However technology is not a friend to the produce, which enables copy/paste virality by the millions. In order to compensate, Creatives need a shiftable “value grade”



PJ Harvey, John Parish & Band, June 11th, Vogue Theater, Indianapolis

By Jason Moriber • Jun 12th, 2009

The pre-roll of blues music, meant to set a tone, could’ve been the foreboding instruct, a tell, of the bare-essential instrumentation of the PJ Harvey/John Parish set and band. In larger venues the sound system is the big brother, putting the band on its shoulders, carrying them. At the Vogue….



Boxing photos from Chia Messina

By Jason Moriber • Jun 9th, 2009

Boxing is a mystery to me, a violent game of strategy and pain that honors a tradition of rules, fellowship, and personalities. I can make lists of favorite boxers; Joe Louis, Muhammad Ali, Sugar Ray Leonard, Boom Boom Mancini, Marvin Haggler, Larry Holmes, Thomas Hearns. Beyond the violence, there were deeper stories about risks, strategy, [...]



Social Media Delusions of the McBiz Era

By Jason Moriber • Jun 9th, 2009

In social media, however, since there is less “real” money in play (time and effort vs. $dollars in investment) being “spent” within an immense amount of uncharted waters, delusions are freely adopted (mermaids!)…