Startup Student #4: Communication 101
This edition of Startup Student tackles communication — in its many forms as it continues to be more digital, distanced, and disrupted.
This edition of Startup Student tackles communication — in its many forms as it continues to be more digital, distanced, and disrupted.
How are traditional institutions for passing on information & knowledge transforming to keep up?
🎧 John Oliver’s Last Week Tonight puts his thumb on the US Postal Service’s campaigns in recent history to keep stamps relevant — and how the solution might involve doing away with the its original business model.
Scott Galloway reevaluates the value of a college education.
The Managing Director of Kantar Media Philippines reminisces his career in television and how it’s changed since the late 70s. He explores what the suspension of ABS-CBN (one of the Philippines’ top cable networks) could mean for the future of the medium and media in general.
What is the real value of digital connectivity?
For better or for worse, social media dominates our digital connectivity. Hootsuite CEO Ryan Holmes shares his thoughts on how social media can level up in this pandemic.
Case in point perhaps? Facebook brings together an oversight board for content regulation on the platform. Wired profiles the 20 members who will work as an independent group to preside over content moderation decisions in the company.
Part of the social media shift in COVID19 has been the deluge of content marketing around the pandemic. But when it comes to COVID19, how saturated can advertising get? According to this FastCompany piece, pandemic advertising has hit its peak.
The Visual Capitalist, well, visualizes the impact of COVID19 on media consumption.
Tech in Asia Strategy Director Eric Oandasan shares his thoughts on the mechanics of content recommendation and how funnels influence and reinforce our decisions on what content to consumer.
Connectivity is all the more critical in the distributed workforce. Notion is one of many emerging online workspace tools that are gaining traction because of this need for tighter collaboration. Notion shares how Notion uses Notion.
How are communication platforms and information flows being disrupted by the pandemic?
TechNexus’ JJ Oslund on the verticalization of Zoom.
🎧Airtable’s Howie Liu on transitioning a business from product-centric to platform and the future of collaborative working.
The highly acclaimed message from Airbnb co-founder and CEO Brian Chesky. As companies of all sizes are faced with tough decisions, Brian Chesky sets a gold standard for eloquence and diplomacy.
As the world becomes more and more dependent on the internet, I thought it interesting to visit the “hardware behind the software.” How does the Internet work? by Vox’s Glad you Asked gives a 101 into the inner wirings of the internet.
🎧 Almost a hundred years ago, it wasn’t standard public health policy to wear masks in the midst of an epidemic. 99 Percent Invisible traces the story of the returnee Malaysian-Chinese doctor who changed all that.
🎧 With thousands of planes grounded, airlines are faced with a new optimization problem — how (and when) to park their fleets.