Category Archives: digital

Welcome To Fountainhead Studios 

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One of our favorite things to do in Miami is visit artists’ studios. For some reason, there seems to be a number of studios that welcome the public on a weekly or monthly basis.

The one we visited tonight is Fountainhead in little Haiti, Miami. It’s owned by Kathryn Mikesell and her husband Dan. They lease out individual rooms to artists at very reasonable rates.

We have been to Fountainhead a few times. It’s amazing to go from studio to studio and watch artists create their work. You get to see their working environments and all of their supplies. It really gives you the inspiration to go out and try something new. If they can do it, so can you. Good luck.

Fountainhead Founder Kathryn Mikesell

Howard, Ruth, Rene,Howard

Lois and Eliot


 

What’s My Hook? 

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I need your help. I am working with The Draw Shop of Salt Lake City, Utah .They specialize in creating eye-catching drawings by using whiteboard animation and videos. 

We are working on a number of assignments together. They want to get me into the swing of things by doing a story on me. I’m not sure what the hook should be. I could use your help with story ideas.

I want it to help me get new viewers for DigiDame and perhaps a sponsor. Or I can use it to help me get new business for my PR agency, HWH PR. 

If you have any ideas, please let me know. Please watch the videos. You may even want to use The Draw Shop for some event or special assignment you are working on.

Thank you all.

Welcome To Basecamp

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Most of you know that I work in a virtual office. That means my business really only exists in cyberspace. A virtual office allows me and my co-workers to work from any location by using laptop computers, cell phones and wifi.

I got really lucky at this time in my career.  It’s wonderful to be able to work from remote locations. Eliot and I can travel all over the world and I don’t miss a beat. The digital world allows me to work from an airplane, boat, train, hotel, ski top,  beach, park, a restaurant, and even the Sahara Dessert or Machu Picchu. 

Today, there are a lot of software tools that allow folks, who work remotely, to share material with others. We didn’t have anything like this in our heyday. The one program I get asked to use a lot is “Basecamp.” It’s a record keeper for many people who work on the same project. It’s pretty amazing. You open the program and see the contributions of others. Everyone is given responsibilities and has to be accountable.

Watch the video to see how people work together even when they live in different parts of the world. It’s definitely gaining more popularity in the workforce. My daughter told me that Basecamp has a lot of competition. She says some of the competitors are even better. That’s the world of the Internet. There is something new everyday.



One Year And 14 Days Ago

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I just don’t know how Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg has been able to function this year. One year  and 14 days days ago, her husband, David Goldberg, then CEO of Survey Monkey, died unexpectedly from a heart attack. The world was in shock, at least I was.

Sheryl and David were the golden couple of the tech industry, or even the world. All eyes were on them. They were happy, prosperous, and cutting edge. Stories about them always talked about their devotion to each other, their children, their extended families and friends. 

I always wondered how this powerful couple managed to be so creative and productive in the business world and yet lead a relatively normal life. I obsessively read every story about them. I couldn’t get enough until that dreadful, awful day when David died.  

I recently read several stories in Mashable that Sheryl was going to address the graduating class of 2016 at the University of California at Berkeley this past weekend.  She finally opened up about how she was able to function this past year while staying completely active in one of the most successful tech companies. 

This was the first time she publicly spoke about the tragedy.”There are three P’s—personalization, pervasiveness, and permanence—that are critical to how we bounce back from hardship,” she said.

The entire speech appears on the YouTube video above. Sheryl appears at the 1:18.54 mark.

 

Virtual Reality Enters Real Estate 

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If you want to know more about the potential of virtual reality in real estate, watch CNBC’s Power Lunch’s feature on the topic. Two Million Dollar Listing Brokers, New York and Miami, share their opinions. 

Shopping for new digs will never be the same. The world of virtual reality is slowly becoming increasingly popular in real estate offices all over the United States. 

A real estate broker friend of mine, Juan Carlos  Zapata, of Douglas Elliman, Fort Lauderdale, FL, got his first taste of what it will be like to use a VR headset in order to sell condos and homes in far away places.

Potential buyers will be able to take a virtual tour of real estate properties without leaving the comfort of the broker’s office. It’s just like being on location. You get to walk and see each room in a 3D atmosphere. Some people get a little woozy with the headset on, but JC said he didn’t have a problem.

Watch his experience below.

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Waterpik Press Tour 

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It was an amazing day at Hearst Magazines in NYC. HWH PR arranged a media day for Waterpik Water Flossers at Cosmopolitan, Good Housekeeping, Redbook and Elle. I led the tour with Richard Bisson, CEO, Water Pik. Our mission was to spread the word on the importance of good oral health care. We met incredible editors and had the fortunate opportunity to tour the Good Housekeeping Institute where they test products for the Seal of Approval.  


Richard Bisson, CEO, Water Pik with Patricia Haegele – SVP Group Revenue Officer (Publisher); Laurie Jennings – Deputy Director Editorial; Rachel Rothman – Chief Technologist; Christine Rannazzisi – Assistant Publisher – Marketing Director, and Rich Hencke – Director, Strategy and Marketing Partnerships Good Housekeeping.

The other half of the caption above


Overlooking Central Park from The Institute.

The new Nordstrom department store under construction.

Karen Snyder Duke, Health Editor, Redbook with Richard Bisson, CEO, Water Pik

Megan O’Neill, Beauty and Fitness Editor ELLE, with Richard Bisson, CEO, Water Pik.

Modular Pod Tents Form New Trend In Camping 

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I thought folks would love this new invention. I’m getting a very mixed reaction. People go camping to be alone. Not to mingle.

Yet, M2C Innovation of the United Kingdom, created POD Tents, a group of tents that are secured together to create a camping compound. Lots of campers can sleep under one connected roof.

I love this idea because I can be in the great outdoors, yet feel safe in a crowd. The modular camping system consists of individual tents that can be zipped together with connector tunnels. This allows you to create a large interior space where you can hang out with your friends and family.

Watch the video for this great new idea.

POD Maxi eight-person tent retails at $780 and the POD Mini four-person tent at $625. The tunnel goes for $140. You can make your purchase here.

Collar Perfect

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There were more times than I care to remember when I couldn’t wear a particular sweater or blouse because the hanger it was stored on left bumps in the shoulder areas or creases in the collar. 

I tried to smooth them out with my fingers but it never worked. I was always too lazy to actually heat up an iron and straighten the garment. I would just pick something else to wear.

Sometimes I would spot others with the same problem. I used to wonder what kind of a person would leave the house wearing a sweater sporting bumps in all the wrong places? Another lazy nut.

I don’t have to worry about this anymore.

Say hello to Collar Perfect, a tiny touch up and travel iron. It’s so small, I can fit it into my purse. 

The Collar Perfect is perfect for fast touch ups. It doesn’t seem like much of an effort to take the The Collar Perfect out of a medicine cabinet or vanity shelf and start ironing away 

Watch the video above to see The Collar  Perfect in action. Click here to see Steve Greenberg demo the $35 unit on the Today Show. 

Tech Meets Fashion at The Met Gala

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Super model Karolina Kurkova


This was one of the biggest nights for demonstrating tech wearables. The fashion company, Marchesa, designed a couture-gown with the IBM Watson cognitive computer system. 

It was debuted by super model Karolina Kurkova at the Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute Benefit. The extravaganza is held the first Monday in May to raise money for the Costume Institute.

Marchesa is a high-profiled, brand specializing in high end womenwear. It was established in 2004 by Georgina Chapman and Keren Craig. Chapman is married to movie mogul Harvey Weinstein.

Watson gave Craig and Chapman suggestions on design and choices of material. The Marchesa founders came up with the idea of a gown that communicates through pulsating lights.

The Marchesa gown was the talk of the gala. This is just the very start of clothes that communicate. 

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Baby Boomers Now In Second Place 

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Baby boomers aren’t so big anymore. We used to be the largest living generation in the United States. Now we have been overtaken by the millennials. 

Ouch that hurts. Baby boomers loved being the biggest group.

The Washington Post was among the first to  report the news from Pew Research Center. 

Millennials are the 18 to 34 year olds. There  are now 75.4 million living millennials, a half-million more than the 74.9 million living baby boomers, anyone who is 51 to 69 years old.

The report also said that millennials will peak in 2036 with 81.1 million people. The baby boomer generation peaked in 1999 with 78.8 million living members.