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Forget the dark web – “AI” is on track to create the bland web
While AI-powered personal assistants have steadily made improvements to functionality and begun embedding themselves into daily life, automated web building tools have started to emerge with the promise of bringing artificial intelligence to web design to make it easier for marketers to have the website of their dreams. Well, I’m here to say, “don’t believe the hype”. At least not yet.

4 Takeaways Ad Age Digital 2016
At this year’s Ad Age Digital Conference there were a number of common themes across panels about ad sales, content creation, social campaigns, the Internet of Things, and the role of agencies in an increasingly digital world.













Somewhere in a far away land
For most of the past two months I've either been on an airplane (I'm in one now), in meetings, or in a hotel room by myself. This wasn't exactly what I expected when I decided to come back, although I knew that I'd be traveling some and I expected that there would be a certain level of intensity based on the volume of changes happening all at once. Now that I'm living this new (old) life, though, I'm discovering all the things that I didn't anticipate and I'm trying to figure out how to be me again in my changed environment. I don't know if that sounds like a straight-forward, easy proposition but as it turns out, it isn't. I've always embraced change and am generally pretty excited about the possibilities for renewal that come with an unexpected challenge. But lately I have been feeling a bit at sea and I need to find some strategies for getting the support I need at work so that I feel more able to adapt with a positive energy. And I need to set some boundaries so that I have more time for living. That was one of the points of this move, so I need to make it happen.



