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
Movement Online: Media Networks and Classifieds
Two interesting pieces from Read/Write Web: Yahoo is becoming more of a content provider and media network. An overview of the online classified market. With so much talk of how online can do many of the functions of a newspaper better, a look into this market is eye-opening.
Online Advertising Growth at Google
John Battelle points us to an interesting story from John Chow regarding Google’s pursuit of growth in online advertising via a new ad network: “Google has been hand-selecting sites (no word on how many sites has been chosen) that they want to put in front of Fortune 1000 companies. The goal being to sell these… Continue reading Online Advertising Growth at Google
The State of Online Advertising
Scott Karp takes an in depth look at the state of online advertising. He sees irony in a recent IAB campaign to convince advertisers to embrace the online medium: “…the campaign uses the same concept of “engagement” that newspaper and magazines have used to promote their shrinking mediums.” He references quite a number of issues… Continue reading The State of Online Advertising
User Generated Print Magazine
JPG magazine has an interesting business model that has finally won the approval of Michael Arrington. The concept: “Get users to upload photos to their website, and then have the community vote on and rank photos. The winners are published in a bi-monthly print magazine and get $100 plus a free one-year subscription.” On why… Continue reading User Generated Print Magazine
Inspiration
If I think of things that interest me, a long list of items quickly fills my head: LEGOS, tube-driven audio equipment, having a sandwich in the park with my wife, and surfing YouTube for videos of kittens chasing lasers, just to name a few. But there is one element that cuts through all of this,… Continue reading Inspiration
Innovation in Journalism
Jay Rosen and John McQuaid explore some timely issues in journalism. On citizen journalism: “With connectivity anywhere and everywhere, journalists tapping into networks can have eyes on the ground in a lot of places simultaneously. That has all kinds of potential — for assembling a broad picture of what’s going on nationally, for individual tips… Continue reading Innovation in Journalism
Your Virtual Friends
he BBC reports on the increasing power of online communities in people’s lives: “A survey found 43% of online networkers from the US felt “as strongly” about their web community as they did about their real-world friends.”
Innovation or Common Sense?
The Wall Street Journal has an interesting debate between Dave Winer and Robert Scoble on the value of Microsoft. The word innovation was used 18 times in the article. Some of the topics now being referred to as “innovation” are just stretching the word too far. If I work at a restaurant and stack the… Continue reading Innovation or Common Sense?
Will the Editorial Process be Replaced by Readers?
Will the editorial process be replaced by readers? Its an interesting concept, that CNET briefly touches upon: “With regard to both facts and style, many blogs are largely self-checking due to sizable reader bases that can comment on posts at will.”