Sunday, 19 May 2013

The Recommender: Cole Wilson, Fast Company's Editorial Relations Genius--And Former Stand-In Videogame Actress

The Recommender: Cole Wilson, Fast Company's Editorial Relations Genius--And Former Stand-In Videogame Actress:



The three best things Fast Company's Director of Editorial Relations saw on the Internet this week.



Stoic in the face of a very busy schedule.
Name: Cole Wilson
Role at Fast Company: Director Of Editorial Relations. Cole played an essential role in putting together our 2013 list of 100 Most Creative People in business, which we just released on Monday. Check it out, and if you have any questions, Cole is your go-to.
Twitter: @magicoley
Titillating fact: Cole had a very short stint as a video game producer. When actresses wouldn't show up for production, Cole would often have to sub for them. She spent many a day in a CGI bodysuit, acting as a range of characters including (but not limited to) a prostitute and a police officer.
Things she's loving:
1. BABS
Enough about Benghazi, the IRS scandal, and the need for immigration reform! Barbara Walters is leaving The View, people. I couldn't believe Alessandra Stanley's strong, smart comprehensive look at Baba Wawa's career in the New York Times wasn't loved on by the Internets; I found it to be totally on point and illuminating.

Stanley does a great job congratulating Barbara on her intuitiveness by tracking her career trajectory with larger industry and cultural trends (i.e., first moving from evening broadcast to daytime television, the ongoing and increasing lack of viewer interest in network television, more and more programming moving to the Internet) and concludes it "didn’t seem as if Ms. Walters had grown too old to keep working; it seemed as if the television legend had decided that the medium was too old to contain her drive."  You go, Barbara!
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