Oct
31st
2008
This weekend I had the chance to listen to a bunch of lectures from various universities.
First up is "The Changing Rules of Journalism" by Bob Cauthorn at UC Berkeley. He talks about the death of paper media and why most web versions of newspaper suck. These are the notes I took from a designer point-of-view.
To watch the full presentation click this iTunes U link.
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31st
2008
Anil Manon is Vice President, IBM Marketing Strategy and Worldwide Marketing Management — what a mouthful! He is responsible for IBM’s Brand Strategy which includes Industrial Design, Content and Corporate Identity. Responsible for IBM’s Worldwide Market Intelligence, he conducts and coordinates all forecasting, customer and market research within IBM.
Still quite active in academia, he is involved in the Yale Center and sits on the board of the Zyman Institute. (source)
In 2006, Anil Menon was a distinguished speaker at Duke University where he presented life lessons and career insights from his academia experience and his current career at IBM.
Anil has everything of a great speaker; he is funny, a good storyteller and charismatic. I was going to exhaustingly list his lessons and insights, but I won’t. The presentation is an hour long, you should be able to spare that time.
On a side note, it is really a shame that Anil Menon isn’t more present and known on the Internet. Aside from a couple of marketing blogs reviewing his presentations, newspapers haven’t interviewed him and his speeches aren’t offered online, except for Duke’s.
It’s incredible how Duke’s Distinguished Speakers Series has an awesome selection of executives. I’ll try to present more of them in the upcoming weeks.