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Andrew Gaspar predicted the Internet By Eric M. Seidel, CEO The Media Trainers, LLC The Internet: our instant connection to the world. What does the future hold? Andrew Gaspar is something of a futurist. In 1980, he predicted the Internet. (I don’t know if he consulted first with Al Gore.) In those days, he says, […]

            Fred Smith, Founder/Chairman/CEO FedEx by Eric M. Seidel, CEO The Media Trainers, LLC First, let me preface this post to say I’ve interviewed Fred Smith before. He’s engaging, open and interesting. Indeed, his picture above indicates accessibility. But body language can easily disguise your true feelings. On the other […]

By Eric Seidel, CEO The Media Trainers, LLC The Juan Williams episode reopens these long-unanswered questions: Where does the right to express an opinion end and political correctness begin? And, how has political correctness managed to become a duplicitous tool to control speech while being applied unevenly in American society? Whether you agree with Williams […]

By Eric Seidel, CEO The Media Trainers, LLC While many crises require psychological follow-up, the Chilean mining disaster has upfront need for strong, authoritative, positive psychological support and consultation in dealing with the media. A smart crisis management consultant will make this the highest priority, for this one promises to be long and tense. If, […]

Pimps Welcome? By Eric Seidel, CEO The Media Trainers, LLC “Say what you’ll do and do what you say!” Good life advice, especially for the way you do business. Certainly it’s an axiom that has come back to haunt Internet entrepreneur Craig Newmark. The “Adult Services” section of his Craig’s List, it seems, has become […]

By Eric Seidel, CEO The Media Trainers® Steve Jobs has generated a fair amount of reaction over how he conducted his news conference on the technical glitches suffered by Apple’s new iPhone 4. In a recent post (Steve Jobs & His iPhone 4’s Worm), I took Jobs to task for failing to open up his […]