Your Story, Your Channel: Brown Tells Highlands County Cultural Groups “You Are the Media Now”

October 31, 2026.Reading time 12 minutes.

Author and media strategist shares a free 8-step plan to bring more visitors, followers, and donors to local museums, historical societies, and cultural venues

Swipe, Cliffhanger, Buy: Why Brands are Betting on Micro-Dramas

October 16, 2026.Reading time 8 minutes.

Ads used to interrupt the story. Now they are the story. Micro-dramas are vertical, soap-style series with one- to two-minute episodes built on betrayal, secret billionaires and cliffhangers.

New Published Feature Story by R. Michael Brown – A Land Remembered Comes Home

October 9, 2026.Reading time 4 minutes.

For a Hardee County rancher’s son, playing Zech MacIvey is not make-believe. It is family memory, Florida history and the open country still worth saving.

The Most Famous Company You’ve Never Heard Of

September 25, 2026.Reading time 14 minutes.

I’ve spent three years asking college students one question about IBM. More than 95% give the same answer, and it should worry the company.

Introducing the Applied AI Academy Service for Colleges and Universities

September 14, 2026.Reading time 15 minutes.

Launch an Applied AI Academy your workforce and community can use.

Artificial intelligence is rapidly reshaping how students learn, how faculty teach, and how institutions prepare communities for the future of work. The question for many colleges and universities is no longer whether AI belongs on campus. It is how to introduce it in a way that is practical, responsible, inclusive, and aligned with institutional mission.