Phil Simon: Media Mentions

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Media Mentions

Featured articles, interviews, and stories.

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Life must be lived forwards but can only be understood backwards.

—Søren Kierkegaard

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Below you’ll find some of my most prominent placements, thought pieces, and mentions.

How Nextdoor Addressed Racial Profiling on Its Platform. This piece also appears in the HBR Press book Agile: The Insights You Need.
How to Get Over Your Inaction on Big Data
Even Small Companies Can Tap Big Data If They Know Where to Look
Webinar on The Visual Organization

TechTalk Podcast: 12.29.2011 (My segment is on The Age of the Platform).
TechTalk Podcast: 01.05.2011 (My segment is on The New Small.)
TechTalk Podcast: 05.19.2010 (My segment is on The Next Wave of Technologies.)

The one and only Ron Charles talked to me about Zoom For Dummies for his newsletter. Yeah, that happened.

Leigh Kamping-Carder quoted me in her newsletter about COVID-19 and collaboration
The 10-Point Newsletter quoted me about Arizona’s incidence of coronavirus and the governor’s preposterous inaction
It has picked up a few of my Inc. articles

Everything Else

ABC News: Could You Be the Next Self-Published Star?
Adweek
- What’s the Deal With All the Robots in This Year’s Super Bowl Ads?
- As the AI Revolution Reshapes the Job Market, a Robot Very Well Could Take Your Job Someday
American Express Open Forum
- Can an E-Mail Ban Help Boost Your Productivity?
- Why Context Matters
- Essential 3-Part Disaster Preparedness Plan
AZ Republic
- Yes, your iPhone and Android devices have a COVID-19 tracker (sort of) — but here’s why you shouldn’t worry
- A slashed tire, a pointed gun, bullies on the road: Why do Waymo self-driving vans get so much hate?
Baseline Magazine
- Big Data article
- Dataviz slideshow
The Baylor Business Review piece on the social customer
Blick piece on Facebook’s market capitalization
The Boston Globe: Should Twitter censure presidential tweets? ($)
BrandWatch interview on The Visual Organization
Business Insider
- Interview on The New Small
- The ‘3-email rule’ is the key to solving the biggest problem with your inbox
CBC: Won’t tolerate ‘callous’ workplace practices, Amazon’s Bezos says
CBS MoneyWatch: Waymo’s self-driving cars have faced slashed tires, thrown rocks
Chicago Tribune
CNN: Article on Big Data
ComputerWorld: The semantic Web gets down to business
The Chronicle has linked to a bunch of my posts on education
Diginomica interview with Brian Sommer
Fast Company
- The Age of the Platform piece
- We still need conference rooms. Here’s what they should look like post-pandemic.
- 3 Steps to Curing Your Email Addiction
Forbes
- Do You Still Use Email to Collaborate With Other Companies? Here’s Why That’s a Mistake
- Platforms
- The Visual Organization
- Big Data
- Message Not Received interview
- Micropublishing
Fortune
- The next big thing in Big Data jobs: Dataviz
- Article on acceptable downtime
Fox
- Fox (Phoenix Affiliate) piece on the techlash.
- Fox News story on TV and Big Data.
- Fox News piece on Uber and whether it’s fair to drivers
The Globe and Mail
- Hybrid work forces small businesses to make tough choices
- Here’s an excerpt on The New Small
Huffington Post
Idea Mensch Interview
InformationWeek mentions me and runs my pieces from time to time. The site has also interviewed me.
Investor’s Business Daily
- Article on Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google
- Embrace Analytics, Powerfully Present Data Visually To Get An Edge
Inc. Magazine articles and a plug for The Visual Organization
IT Business Edge has referenced my work a bunch of times, including this one.
Korean Broadcasting System’s documentary show The World Today.
Lifehacker: The ‘3-email rule’ is the key to solving the biggest problem with your inbox
LifeWire
- What the Slack Sale Means for You
- How WhatsApp’s Photo Quality Options Could Benefit Everyone

MSN article: Amazon won’t tolerate ‘callous’ workplace practices, Jeff Bezos says

The National Post: Boycott Amazon if you want — but don’t expect it to work
NBC
- Article on Big Data
- NBC – Las Vegas
Newsweek: Locals are attacking Waymo self-driving cars being tested in Arizona
NY Post: It’s your own fault you get work emails 24/7
PC Mag: Get Ready for New Workplace Injury Reporting Regulations
PC World quotes one of my posts in its piece “Why analytics is eating the world”
Quartz: E-mail lets other people schedule your life—here’s how to stop it
ReadWrite (Link to Archive page. The site seems to have been retired or ported to ReadWrite.com.)
Slack: How ASU powers the modern learning experience with Slack
Software Test and Performance Magazine: Article on Consulting Types
Technorati (For some reason, the site recently removed the links. Good thing that they’re here too.)
TheStreet.com article on the rise of crowdfunding (behind paywall)
VentureBeat: Your platform might determine your startup’s success — so why not build your own
Waters Technology article on Why New Systems Fail
I have written a bunch of posts for Wired. Read them here
Yahoo!
- Smallbiz story on Message Not Received
- Big Data story referencing Too Big to Ignore
ZDNet

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