One of the most important things we think the media can do is connect small business owners and creatives across industries and markets to give them an opportunity to learn form each other. The insights on trends in particular can be transformative if our communities were better connected and so we’ve tried to create a space where folks can share the trends they are seeing and read about trends other sharp entrepreneurs are seeing.
Petere Pamela Miner
Over $10 trillion is spent a year on logistics and shipping. That’s 11% of the global GDP! Everything around you came to you on a truck, a ship, an airplane, a drone, a delivery bicycle. From the “first mile” where something is made to the “last mile” when it gets to your door. And yet it’s the least understood and appreciated industry – well that was until the pandemic made everyone painfully aware of what was not being delivered to them. I fell in love with Logistics and Shipping when I got a job as a warehouse manager at HP. I came to HP as an electrical engineer, and when I started running the warehouse I realized that the lowest paid people in the company were the ones that had the last experience with a product before it was delivered to the customer. And I also realized that I could bridge my 2 passions of technology+logistics and have an impact on the customer’s experience, without being in sales! It’s an industry that, up until now, was not able to adopt technology. Not because we are a bunch of dinosaurs, but because logistics is a highly complex network of service providers connected together physically but not digitally. Now with the ubiquitous access to the internet, the Cloud, blockchain, machine learning, and IoT, etc. etc., logistics is the perfect nail looking for a technology hammer. I’m living the dream starting a tech company serving the logistics industry. It’s like my whole career brought me to this point. Read more>>
Justin Dombrowski
Food and beverage tabletop commercials have been pushing the envelope for decades when it comes to innovation and techniques used to captured mouth-watering, jaw dropping imagery. Some of the most widely used tools when it comes to tabletop commercial production is high speed cameras, motion control robots, probe/ macro lenses and precision special effects. Each year new hardware and software comes out to enhance what we have done and paves the way to what lies ahead. The latest trend when it comes to our toolkit is the rise in virtual production. Green screens have been replaced with LED walls to project backgrounds to not only save steps in compositing during post production, but it also helps with realistic reflections and light interaction to help real-life foreground objects blend better with artificial backdrops. The technology has been popularized by live-action narrative works such as The Mandalorian & The Batman and has made its way into commercial advertising, transporting products into places more efficiently. Though, with most trends, it takes some education to have clients shift from the comforts of how they have done things in the past as well as soaring costs when it comes to this new technology. For some people, its easier to fly to Italy for that tuscan landscape then to fake it halfway across the world. Hopefully with the rise in popularity and hardware costs going down, this tool can be used along with the other specialty equipment we use to make these spots stand out from the pack. Read more>>
Gabriella Layne-Avery
The social media world was turned on its head in early July when Instagram announced the launch of its new social media app called Threads. Within the first 48 hours, the platform garnered more than 100 million users. Read more>>
Olivia Mihaljevic
During the past few years we’ve seen companies really struggle with taking care of their employees. Whether it’s with remote or hybrid work, quiet quitting, loud quitting, or just the overall employee experience. There’s been a lot of changes. Read more>>
David Chapman
I have the immense pleasure of being able to review tabletop games and products, and people seem to want me to continue doing so. When I left the website that I was previously working for, one of the things I needed to decide was how I wanted to put my voice out into the world. Read more>>
Jeremy C. Park
When it comes to corporate philanthropy and community engagement, there are a number of important, high profile shifts and trends taking place. These trends are being driven by both consumers and employees, so if business owners and executives are not mindful and strategically looking ahead, they quickly can lose market share and top talent. Read more>>