The Christian Science Monitor digs into the publishing revolution, and how easy it can be to earn money online through your writing, videos, or other media. Some excerpts: “The rise of what’s known as contextual advertising has created a 21st-century version of royalties that’s reaching deep into the ranks of amateurs and hobbyists. It points… Continue reading Can You Earn a Living Through Blogging?
Category: user-generated media
Where Editorial, Marketing and Advertising Meet
Jeff Jarvis has started an interesting discussion regarding Pay Per Post, a service that pays bloggers to write about products & services. While this is not a new topic in any medium, it is particularly relevant in the current state of online media. As YouTube prepares to share revenue with those who upload content, this… Continue reading Where Editorial, Marketing and Advertising Meet
Social Relationships: The Merging of Online & Real-Life
As we use online environments for more day-to-day business and personal matters, I often wonder when we will make the jump to a more cohesive and accountable presentation of self that merges the two. There are two ways I look at this. One is the more technical: how do others know that it is you… Continue reading Social Relationships: The Merging of Online & Real-Life
Social Relationships: The Merging of Online & Real-Life
As we use online environments for more day-to-day business and personal matters, I often wonder when we will make the jump to a more cohesive and accountable presentation of self that merges the two. There are two ways I look at this. One is the more technical: how do others know that it is you… Continue reading Social Relationships: The Merging of Online & Real-Life
Hyper-Local Getting Hyper-Exposed
Hyper-local content seems to be all the rage now-a-days, with reports from all over the web: Search Engine Watch reports on Yahoo’s focus on local, which includes the addition of “social” functionality to its web untilities: “The data supports the idea that local is going to become a very active space. People are eager and… Continue reading Hyper-Local Getting Hyper-Exposed
Studying Social Networking
Pew/Internet has released a study on how teens use social networking sites. Even if you are not concerned with this audience, it is insightful to realize how their current online habits will translate to changes in the media world and the workplace in the future. Some stats: More than half (55%) of all online American… Continue reading Studying Social Networking
Traditional Media Well Placed to Reap Benefits of User Generated Media
Reuters reports on how the value of traditional media’s brands should help them online: “Traditional media companies are ideally placed to benefit from the explosion of user-generated content and should see it as an opportunity and not a threat even though the potential revenue is limited, a report says. (They) are very well positioned to… Continue reading Traditional Media Well Placed to Reap Benefits of User Generated Media
What is the Value of a “User” and “Community”
The words “user” and “community” sure have been thrown around a lot recently. As companies try to create “communities” online, and embrace “users” and all the media they generate, we should ensure that the meaning of these words are not lost. Rex Hammock explores the reasons Apple doesn’t get the same negative press that Dell… Continue reading What is the Value of a “User” and “Community”
Social Media: A New Era
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
Digg Evolves with New Features, but the Same Old Problems
Digg.com has rolled out some new features this week: Interface Design, Digg Goes Widescreen Top 10 Stories/Videos Videos Enhancements Podcasting Profile Enhancements However, they continue to find the balance between being open to a user-generated content website, and being a gatekeeper: “Digg continues to crack down on users who plant phony stories on behalf of… Continue reading Digg Evolves with New Features, but the Same Old Problems