Social media is just the latest in a long series of disruptions that Jacksonville, Florida’s largest city, has taken in stride. The site of one of the earliest European settlements…
An episode of the hit sitcom Frasier has the Daphne Moon character musing, “Oh, I love nature’s little aberrations: warm days in winter, four-leaf clovers, Australians….” They always seem to…
The island paradise of Hawaii rounded out the stars on the U.S. flag at 50 in 1960, and it remains the union’s most unique member. Hawaii is the most ethnically…
Thoughts of New Zealand generally conjure up spectacular landscapes complete with smoking volcanoes, abrupt mountains, relentless glaciers, stunning fiords, and odd flightless birds. This primordial backdrop made the perfect natural…
One complaint often heard about Los Angeles—the nation’s largest city, geographically, with 469 square miles just within the city limits—is that “there’s no there there.” This conundrum has plagued city…
The Canadian city of Victoria, like many western outposts, has its roots in the gold rushes of the 19th century. Today this Pacific gem and capital of British Columbia is…
Social Media Club San Francisco is five years old this month, and to those of us in relative backwaters it seems to be sitting pretty. Its namesake city is loaded…
Sun is a great mood enhancer, and Sacramento is one of the nation’s sunniest cities. That and a relatively young demographic may help explain why optimism abounds in Social Media…
The great metropolis of Atlanta, torched to the ground by Sherman in 1864, is the iconic American rebirth story. You can rise from the ashes and build something much bigger…