Much is being made of a recent Nielsen survey which found that 60% of new Twitter users do not return after 30 days. The report provides evidence that the resulting 40% retention rate will limit growth, to no more than 10% of internet users. While this is a graphically compelling argument, Nielsen–like so many Twitter [...]
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Indy Arts Magazine Debuts
As I write this post, several thousand Indianapolis arts and culture supporters converged earlier today at a downtown rally. It was cold and rainy, bone-chilling weather typical of the wild and woolly Hoosier spring. Many of those brave souls are probably still dialing down the shivers.
So while it may be counter intuitive that now is [...]
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Rick appears on Ingrid Cummings' "Rubicon Salon" radio program (WICR 88.7)
“Rubicon Salon” airs Friday mornings at 9:30 a.m. on WICR-FM 88.7 in Indianapolis. Rick Wilkerson is host Ingrid Cummings’ guest this Thursday, April 9, from 930 to 10am. Ingrid Cummings is the author of “The Vigorous Mind”; she is also a contributing editor at Indianapolis Monthly and an associate professor at Indiana University.
From the Rubicon [...]
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Green Marketing, the Arts Community, and True Capital Improvement
Last night’s First Friday excursion took us to the Murphy building in Fountain Square, among other places. Most notably we stumbled into something called “The Dome Bag Project”, which occupied one of the spaces in the Murphy Building. It’s an initiative of an organization called People for Urban Progress, launched by Mary O’Malley and Michael [...]