The Comunicano Communique for Monday January 4th 2016

          The Comunicano Communique     Welcome back to the work world. For those of you who have been on what feels like an extended vacation, the year is starting out with CES happening in Las Vegas.  You don't need me to tell you what's happening there, and thankfully, I'm not … Read more

The Comunicano Communique for Monday December 28th 2015

          The Comunicano Communique     It's Monday, and I have to wonder how many people are really back to work versus being "at work" this week. Well, your trusty curator has been sniffing out the stories and making news myself in CommPro.Biz and realizing how great it is to not be … Read more

The Comunicano Communique for Friday December 25th 2015

          The Comunicano Communique     Merry Christmas….While today is a holiday, the start of a three day weekend or the start of a ten day break for many, I'm still reading and curating news articles.  Today's Comunicano Communique features of course a story on Google's Santa Tracker, as well as a few … Read more

The Comunicano Communique for Wednesday December 23rd 2015

          The Comunicano Communique     It's Wednesday before Christmas. In looking for the news I found a few tidbits for travelers, an acquisition by former client Truphone in the IoT space, moves being made by Google, a spat between T-Mobile and YouTube, the fact that the Beatles are giving us all a … Read more

The Comunicano Comnunique for Tuesday December 22nd 2015

        The Comunicano Communique     It's Tuesday and the news is S L O W !!!! But yesterday Skype Microsoft made an acquisition of sorts, snapping up Talko. I played around with the HyperVoice based Talko when it first was released and understand the premise. For Skype think of this as an … Read more

The Comunicano Daily for July 28th, 2015

          The Comunicano Daily       My co-founder, along with Josh Baylin, in VelocityGrowth, Jeff Belk was one of the key executives who put Qualcomm on the map. There Jeff, who rose to CMO and CSO, instilled a marketing culture amongst a group of inventors, IP attorneys and engineers. Jeff retired from … Read more

The Comunicano Daily for Thursday July 16th

          The Comunicano Daily       Yesterday was a day in motion. Meeting with clients as early as 830 AM in Paris. Getting packed, and out of my hotel, over to lunch to catch up with uber Wine Bar and Restauranteur Mark Williamson of Willi's and Maceo fame, then literally a mad dash … Read more

The Comunicano Daily for Friday July 10th, 2015

        The Comunicano Daily       The VC world is on a authoring trend this week around content, the story and the deck. To me, this is all one big world and further underscores the concept that Bill Ryan is espousing around the brand narrative. As someone who thinks more like an ad … Read more

The Comunicano Daily for Tuesday February 4th, 2014

        The Comunicano Daily       Well, the Wait is over. Microsoft has named a new CEO, and with the news, also announced that Bill Gates will be more involved in the decisionmaking. There's lots of news coverage on the web and you can expect to see more perspectives over the next … Read more

AT&T-Sponsored Data-It’s Nothing New, But It Could Become Very New

I find the brewing pot of noise around sponsored data that AT&T announced this week all to be a bit funny. Why? Sponsored "data" has been around for a very long time. Radio programs were sponsored as far back as the 1920s. Public television has been sponsored since the 1950. Just as mobile data runs … Read more