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King memorial a gateway to the future

On Sunday, October 16, 2001, I was one of several thousand people who witnessed the dedication of the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial. [...]

Darryl Swint's thoughts on community-building and social media

Scholar Community Builder Darryl Swint explains the content and navigation of the JKCF Forum

As Scholarship Community Builder at the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation, development, beta testing, administration of and content creation for a private Forum for Jack Kent Cooke Scholars was my primary responsibility. Between its launch in late June 2010, use of the [...]

Darryl Swint's thoughts on mobility, marketing, convenience and e-commerce

Thanks to a germinating, ongoing merger of mobile smartphones, GPS-based, social media marketing and a tech-savvy consumer base comfortable with broadcasting its whims, movements and activity through satellite social media sites, the new economy is finally taking [...]

Social media and the sports scene

Fry’s article caught my eye because the debate has been an issue of interest. In December 2008 while writing for stltoday.com’s Speaking Visually graphics blog, I briefly discussed the impact of Lance Armstrong’s embrace of Twitter. [...]

New mobile devices change the game

Nexus One. The rumored Apple tablet. Droid. Netbooks. iPhone 3G.

It’s an amazing time from a technological point of view. The exchange of information and ideas is being revised and adapted to new technologies. Media in particular, having taken their share of lumps over the past two years, have mobile and possibly tablet-formats on which to [...]