Official: Christie transportation commissioner to step down – WFMJ
By MICHAEL CATALINIAssociated Press TRENTON, N.J. (AP) – Gov. Chris Christie’s transportation commissioner will resign this month as federal investigators continue a wide-ranging probe into Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which he previously lobbied on behalf of United Airlines. Jamie Fox’s departure…
Lee Founders Weekend 2015 celebrates 20 years with expanded events – Berkshire Eagle (subscription)
LEE — A milestone, cemetery tour and an aerial drone fly-over highlight a revised and expanded Lee Founders Weekend this year. Festival Latino of the Berkshires celebrates its 20th anniversary as one of the premier events during the tradition three-day celebration in September to promote…
GamesBeat 2015 snares Magic Leap’s Graeme Devine as a new speaker – VentureBeat
Our latest speaker, Graeme Devine looks like a character from Game of Thrones. The chief creative officer and vice president of games at Magic Leap is one more among the cast of characters from gaming who will talk at our GamesBeat 2015 conference at the Grand Hyatt…
How to Leverage Social Media for SEO: Link Building – Marketing Land
I recently asked a room of experienced marketers how they thought social media marketing could assist their SEO efforts. The answers were more or less what I had expected to hear: Social media helps foster relationships, which in turn helps build links and improves rankings….
Kanye West’s Pan Am Games gig shows Toronto dreaming big – Canada – CBC … – CBC.ca
Kanye West has been awarded more than a dozen Grammy Awards, sold millions of albums and married into America’s reality TV royalty. But, for some Canadians, the rapper’s resumé is missing one key word to qualify him as a headliner for the Pan Am Games’ closing ceremony — Canadian. The organizers’…
Wolff: In digital media’s youth crusade, career paths are fuzzy – USA TODAY
Michael Wolff, USA TODAY 7:02 p.m. EDT July 12, 2015 The news media, like most businesses built on craft and culture, have largely worked as an apprentice system. Younger people learned skills and language from older people. A good media job would have been judged…
Top 10 marketing trends you need to know – Marketing Dive
2015 has been all about social, mobile, video and more. With the better part of 2015 behind them, digital marketers continue to shift their attention (and budget dollars) towards mobile, video, and social media. Marketers this year have experienced a flood of real-time data, welcomed a slew of…