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I'm Jake McKee
People call me The Community Guy
People call me The Community Guy
A few weeks back, the folks at the TLC book tours, asked me if I was interested in participating in the book tour to support the launch of Clay Shirky’s latest book, Cognitive Surplus. Despite the fact that my calendar looks like someone took a shotgun approach to booking time, and despite the fact that [...]
Fantastic. I’m not sure what more I can say to describe The Illusionist. Fantastic acting, writing, directing. But the most fantastic was the visual style this story was filmed in. Incredible style that places the viewer firmly in the time period. It’s been a while, even with other good movies, that I’ve wanted to run [...]
I loves me some movie trailers. It’s quite an art, really. Cutting a trailer from minimal footage, trying to entice, but not give away. Here’s some of the movies coming up that I’m looking forward to. Children of Men The Queen American Hardcore Flyboys The Illusionist Lover Boy (The cast of Singles seems to have [...]
USA Today blogger Whitney Matheson writes about one of the best books (graphic or otherwise) that I’ve read in a while. I’m not sure why I’ve been putting off writing about Y: The Last Man. Since March, this series of books has been my No. 1 obsession. The premise is simple and provocative: What if [...]
My friend Andy Sernovitz, head of the Word of Mouth Marketing Association, has a new book coming out soon: Word of Mouth Marketing: How Smart Companies Get People Talking. Andy has been kind enough to provide me with a PDF version of the final book content, and I’ll be taking a look this weekend and [...]