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Commencement Speaker Tells Graduates They Are All Going To Die, He’s Right
“You are all going to die.” Joss Whedon, famed writer, director, and living symbol of nerdly equality, opened Wesleyan University's graduation commencement speech with this statement, and like...
Here Is What People On Instagram Wear To Funerals
We spend a lot of time on social media channels and we talk about social media regularly on ConnectingDirectors.com. So its only natural that we research conversation on...
Instagram Adds Video Capture
Over the past two and a half years, Instagram has become a community where you can capture and share the world’s moments simply and beautifully. Some moments, however,...
How FindaGrave.com Netted 10-Million Page Views Per Day
When Jim Tipton saw a massive tombstone in a Gainesville, Fl., cemetery that was engraved with the name Waldo, he snapped a photo, developed the film and coded...
FrontRunner Professional announces exclusive strategic partnership with DISRUPT Media
FrontRunner Professional announced today its strategic partnership with DISRUPT Media, the funeral profession’s dedicated social media provider, founded by Ryan Thogmartin of Connecting Directors. This new partnership will...
10 Gadgets To Sexy Up Your Funeral Home
There's a reason your client families flip through Skymall every time they board a flight, dog-earing catalogue pages with giant floating trampolines and vibrating bath mats — they (we) love...
Who’s Next On Service Corp International’s Purchase List?
It's a pretty simple question without a lot of pizzazz. The last two big buyouts by Service Corp International were Keystone and now Stewart Enterprises. So that leaves...
9 Funeral Videos You Didn’t Expect To See
Vine, a mobile app created by Twitter, allows users to create and share short video clips. Like Twitter, brevity is valued and video clips can’t exceed six seconds...
Lifehacker Taps Joshua Slocum As ‘Funeral Expert’ For The Masses, You Should Be Concerned
Lifehacker.com is one of the most popular blog sites in the world with 14.5 million monthly readers and is ranked #8 by Google's Pagerank. A lot of people...