The foundation for each has been affordable rent for both live and work, public transportation or ease-of-movement (foot, bike), decent schools, cheap yet good food, and easy access to transportation hubs to be accessible to, and to connect with, the greater area. These elements attract boot-strapping creative professionals who both live and work locally, and lead towards greater prosperity, not only for themselves, but for their overall neighborhood (increased property values, greater choice of services, more infrastructure attention, safer streets).

Google’s new FastFlip news “reading” tool is a giant robot sent to crush the “real” people, the peer-to-peer peeps, using Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, etc. to share news links. The people will prevail!

Here are my slides and an edited-down video from my presentation. The content of this presentation includes both tools and tactics that creative professionals should be using to be “active” in their marketing. The goal of “Active Marketing” is to display to your audience your verve for your subject…

Shawna Coronado’s recent post on Gardner Rant points out how green lawns can be put to use as food producing gardens . Not only for the owners consumption, but importantly to help feed the hungry…

A strong solution to the ills of our current economic disaster, and the way to assist the 9.7% of residents now out of work, is to get creative. I’m urging creative leaders to step up, to match themselves with producers, with engineers, with do-ers to get this economy turned around…

Top 5 innovative cities of the world? 1. Boston 2. Vienna 3. Amsterdam 4. Paris 5. San Fran. full list here: http://bit.ly/NmCzW

“always remember to follow up with people, in any situation, at the very least within seventy-two hours”  http://bit.ly/Ys26a

Shout-out to Brett Beyer on his Nat Geo Adventure Interview (Parkour images): http://is.gd/2dpiU

This event will feature Candace Rutt, Ph.D., a Health Psychologist from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and will again feature both lecture and workshop components, on September 21 & 22, respectively.

“At Getty, 70 percent of revenue is generated by the sale of stock images” http://is.gd/2bSn4