By now you have heard that ‘You’ are Time’s person of the year. The Christian Science Monitor has an interesting take on what this really means. After going through a series of statistics that illustrate that few are actually using social media in any serious way, they conclude: “What the media revolution and Web 2.0… Continue reading Social Media: A New Era
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Conde Nast Steps into Social Media
The Wall Street Journal looks at Conde Nast’s development of a social networking site to rival MySpace. What I like about the article, is its subtlety: “With readers migrating to the Web in droves, all magazines are under tremendous pressure to come up with Internet strategies, or face oblivion.” But it gets better. Conde Nast… Continue reading Conde Nast Steps into Social Media
Conversational Media vs. Traditional Media
Last week, I discussed a recent article by John Batelle: Packaged Goods Media vs. Conversational Media. John has released part 2 of this series, which explores the differences between traditional media and interactive media: “Not owning or controlling the content? Not owning or controlling the audience? Not having total control of your advertising and subscription… Continue reading Conversational Media vs. Traditional Media
Untethering the Social Networks
Fred Wilson has a great post about his ability to be the center of his own social network. With so many of the web’s social networks – it is limited to a single domain name. Once you leave Facebook or MySpace or LiveJournal, you become an outsider. Fred talks about two services that let him… Continue reading Untethering the Social Networks
New York Times Gets Social
The New York Times has embraced social media, by adding submission links to Digg, Facebook ,and Newsvine within their stories. “…the capability to do it directly from the story means that The Times is paying attention to where its stories are shared, who reads them, and, more importantly, what they are saying about them.” Of… Continue reading New York Times Gets Social
Social Media Turning into Commercial Media
Scott Karp discusses how online communities may be gamed by some, in order to unlock their traffic driving potential: “…we just need to remember how quickly “social” can become “commercial” and managing the “community” can become managing the “marketplace.”
Mobile Journalists Deliver Hyper-Local Coverage
The Fort Myers News-Press is utilizing mobile journalists to focus on hyper-local news coverage: “They spend their time on the road looking for stories, filing several a day for the newspaper’s Web site, and often for the print edition, too. Their guiding principle: A constantly updated stream of intensely local, fresh Web content — regardless… Continue reading Mobile Journalists Deliver Hyper-Local Coverage
Yahoo and Reuters Ask You to Become a Photojournalist
Some user-generated media and citizen journalist news: “Hoping to turn the millions of people with digital cameras and camera phones into photojournalists, Yahoo and Reuters are introducing a new effort to showcase photographs and video of news events submitted by the public.” The offer also seems to apply to video, and includes a print component:… Continue reading Yahoo and Reuters Ask You to Become a Photojournalist
Content Management Systems & Social Media
Jeremiah Owyang looks at enterprise content management systems with social media features. While he is speaking mainly of corporate intranets and the like, the concept extends to any community. “Do you think we can get rid of the broken Enterprise Content Management systems (CMS) soon? I’ve managed four enterprise Intranets (or been on the primary… Continue reading Content Management Systems & Social Media
Content Management Systems & Social Media
Jeremiah Owyang looks at enterprise content management systems with social media features. While he is speaking mainly of corporate intranets and the like, the concept extends to any community. “Do you think we can get rid of the broken Enterprise Content Management systems (CMS) soon? I’ve managed four enterprise Intranets (or been on the primary… Continue reading Content Management Systems & Social Media