Monthly Archives: September 2010

We Are All Connected

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Everything is connected.

So I go to see Caps rookie camp - by myself - on Sunday and I return and tell my wife (who is Swedish) about the kids from Sweden. We talk about Sweden and the talk leads to discussion about her grandmother.

We then go to the movies and we see the movie The American starring George Clooney. The film opens in Dalarna, Sweden! That is my wife’s family’s hometown. How coincidental and random is that? My wife’s grandmother came to America from Dalarna.

Before the film, there are two movie trailers. One is for Catfish, a film produced by a close friend named Andrew Jarecki. The film starts showing reviewer comments and one is from indieWIRE which I acquired and am majority owner. Who knew? I didn’t.

The second trailer is for the Facebook-based movie and I swear I get total deja vu about AOL and our work on You’ve Got Mail, the film starring Tom Hanks.

Only we liked You’ve Got Mail and by the looks of the trailer my bet is Facebook won’t be loving this new film.

Wonder if Facebook will promote or take ad media dollars regarding this film from the studio? This will be interesting to see.

This Blogger Says Wizards Could Be The Worst Team Of All Time

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And that we should NOT have chosen John Wall with the first pick and that we chose John for PR reasons.

And that the blogger “likes me” - which is good. I have that going for me. :-)

He says we will get 22 wins this coming season and we could be really bad. Worst of all time.

He is pretty smart. He uses nice charts and graphs.

Maybe he is right. Maybe he is wrong. But we shall see. This is a pretty definitive blog post. It will either be prophetic or he will look like one of those folks with the body billboard that says, “The world will end at 12:00 midnight on June 10th 2008.”

Let us hope the stats he uses truly are “silly.”

You Are Simply Uninformed

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If you are a journalist, simply pick up the phone and call me to interview me or send me an email and I shall respond. Always have - always will. Why would you write this and question if you know or don’t know what I am thinking if you didn’t find the time to ask?

In this new media world transparency and real time repartee is crucial and if you don’t respond the other view gets cemented in the algorithms for all time. You must generate your pixels and point of view or lose your rankings and your direct communications pathway to your audience.

You should be happy I am reading and commenting on your blog post. It may drive some traffic and link love to this page.

We would never shut out a journalist from coming to our games. We would never shut out anyone from writing anything about us. We just won’t cooperate with promoting the book in question. We will tell our side of the story to our fans. That is all we will do. And when we deal with the writer in question we will simply be more on guard as we now know how he operates regarding our star player, whom we adore.

I hope you also realize that we are fairly immune now to any media remarks. We are now fully inoculated. We use our own media; our website; my blog; our Facebook page; Twitter; my Facebook page; direct email; our ad dollars; our arena where more than 2.5 million people attend annually; SnagFilms where we reach 250 million monthly pages; our radio network; our association with Comcast SportsNet; and our own television programming.

We are our own largest media outlet now.

We will use all of the tools we have to protect our players and our reputation if and when we think we have been wronged by bad facts.

If you write something that is incorrect, we will let the world know. The rules have changed. It is no longer a one way street where you write and we hide. We are now bigger as a media outlet than most of the media that covers us. So write away and blog away. Ninety-nine percent of the stuff is great. When there is a comment or fact that is wrong, I reserve the right to point out the wrong facts or state my opinion. What is good for the goose is good for the gander.

It is a new world order. It is a world of balance now - of give and take. Journalists have to get used to it, too. Welcome to the blogosphere.

Double Bottom Line Player

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Good for Josh Howard donating dollars for scholarships. Nothing nobler than that, is there?

I love what he is wearing. He is cool and comfortable at the game and he isn’t wearing a brace!

I am proud of Josh for supporting scholarship programs. What have you done lately TruthAboutIt.net to support students with needs? Just saying. Show me your double bottom line next blog post. Dazzle me.