February 2012
37 posts
Insiders: Pentagon Should Not Offer Bailouts to... →
In Digital Age, Sourcing Images Is as Legitimate... →
As far as I can tell this is the future of image making. It may not be the only future. I say — not so much to my students but to my colleagues — ignore this at your own peril. It’s not interesting because it’s a new technology, it’s interesting because it is really changing the way the world consumes and considers, lives and swims in imagery.
One of the things I love about teaching is to put...
"If you want to get to half a million pageviews,... →
shortformblog:
Reuters’ Felix Salmon discusses the changing nature of Web journalism, where the SEO-friendly days of yore are starting to get a bit more social, which is good for high-quality but much-more-expensive reporting. Salmon’s point? The commodity approach, which has the side effect of diluting quality brands, is still easier, though it’s far more me-too in nature. (ht Matt)
For writers and editors... →
“You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.”
– Wayne Gretzky
“Rather than learning from or trying to emulate HuffPo’s hugely valuable...”
– Why The New York Times Will Lose to The Huffington Post | Epicenter | Wired.com Comment: totally agreed! (via mediafuturist)
“Do not keep saying to yourself, if you can possibly avoid it, “But how can...”
– Richard Feynman
17 Little Known Social Media Tools You Should Be... →
Metrics, damn it! Metrics!
“If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think...”
– —George Orwell (via thefreestyle)
How Sharing Disrupts Media - Felix Salmon via... →
futuresagency:
Felix Salmon considers new media platforms like Twitter, Tumblr and Wordpress — companies that aren’t seeking to vertically integrate all elements of a media stack, especially not wanting to own the ‘content’ — and he contrasts those with Rupert Murdoch’s empire, based on owning all layers of its stack and zealously guarding them, leading to a great line:
The content creators...
Hashdoc blog: Career Path of the Corporate Social... →
hashdoc:
Corporations have anointed an Open Leader, the Social Strategist. In our research, we found that this emerging role is critical in the adoption of new media for corporations. Over 41% of Social Strategists reported to the Marketing department. Primary responsibilities included leading the social…
“Journalists are much better at writing than they are at reading — which means...”
– Felix Salmon, How Sharing Disrupts Media via Wired.com (via stoweboyd)
“The Internet is a revolutionary instrument that permits the receiving and...”
– Fidel Castro Loves the Internet | TechPresident (via infoneer-pulse)
“To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Social Media Maven: Social Media Addicts Drive... →
How addictive is social media? According to a soon-to-be released study from the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business, it is more addictive than alcohol or tobacco. The school conducted an interesting experiment in Germany wherein it asked participants to describe their recent urges at regular intervals and gauge them based on how strong the urge was. Guess what? Social media...
“l am certainly not politically affiliated with Mr. Obama. It was meant to be a...”
– Clint Eastwood • Speaking to Bill O’Reilly about the “It’s Halftime in America” Super Bowl ad he did for Chrysler, which has sparked speculation as to whether he intended a specific political endorsement for the ad. He did not. It’s worth noting that, no, he did not support the auto bailouts, and...
Bradley Manning to Face All Charges in... →
“That you are here—that life exists, and identity; That the powerful play goes...”
– Walt Whitman
“We often talk about inventions like the printing press and the television — by...”
– Mark Zuckerberg (via sgreer)
Lost Malcolm X Speech Heard Again 50 Years Later :... →
Behind the Scenes: Super Bowl Social Media Command... →
electronics-geek:
A lot of tech planning went into make the Super Bowl’s first Social Media Command Center a reality …
“Professional journalists—with or without formal training—will emerge as they are...”
– Robert Hernandez, USC Annenberg (via psshhyaitsbia)
“…we need a National Service Program. We need a program that would force members...”
– David Brooks (via azspot)
Who Owns Your Personal History? →
infoneer-pulse:
One day in December 1955, former President Harry Truman, who had been living in Independence, Missouri since leaving the White House in 1953, arrived home and found his wife Bess at the fireplace, burning a pile of his letters to her.
“Think of history,” he said. “I have,” she replied. And she let the letters continue to burn.
Today, we no longer have the option of burning...
Too Big to Know: David Weinberger explains how... →
Ultimately, Weinberger treats the net as a fact, not a problem. It exists. It has remade our knowledge processes. It has bound together communication, information and sociability so that you can’t learn things without communicating, and so that every communication brings the chance of a human encounter. In a closing chapter of recommendations, he talks about how we treat the fact of the...
“I think it is the future of print.”
– Josh Martin, group director of media strategy at ID Media. - The Daily After One Year: Some Lessons Learned, Josh Sternberg, Digiday (via brooklynmutt)
In a New Era for Marketing, Parental Discretion... →
Every well trained manager knows about the “four P’s” of marketing. To make a sale, a company must offer the right product to meet customers’ needs, and at the right price. It has to be offered in a place they find convenient and, in order for them to know about it and how it can help them, it has to be promoted well. New research by my colleagues and me, however,...
January 2012
68 posts
Culture Eats Strategy For Lunch | Fast Company →
futuramb:
Culture, like brand, is misunderstood and often discounted as a touchy-feely component of business that belongs to HR. It’s not intangible or fluffy, it’s not a vibe or the office décor. It’s one of the most important drivers that has to be set or adjusted to push long-term, sustainable success. It’s not good enough just to have an amazing product and a healthy bank balance. Long-term...
“So frictionless sharing isn’t frictionless after all. All it does is trade the...”
– Nick Bradbury: The Friction in Frictionless Sharing (via infoneer-pulse)
"Spouting Nonsense" →
parislemon:
Tim Worstall, a Forbes contributor, absolutely rips apart the anti-Apple tone of the recent stories about Chinese factory conditions.
This, alongside Tim Cook’s response and the letter to The New York Times from BSR President and CEO Aron Cramer refuting just about everything attributed to an anonymous “BSR consultant” in the most recent NYT story, certainly makes it seem even more...
Canadian 2-year colleges show path to jobs →
infoneer-pulse:
“This is better,” Conrad recounted in the student lounge of the bustling downtown campus one recent day. “The teachers really do hands-on kinds of things.” Conrad also has a job while she studies, organizing events for the Hudson’s Bay Co. department-store chain.
Hugely popular for emphasizing practical skills that lead directly to careers, community colleges — most of which...
“What you can’t do is be told by a social media guru to act authentic and still...”
– Jeff Pooley, associate professor of media and communication at Muhlenberg College. (via tart-pastry)
How To Generate A Good Idea →
When it comes to getting work done Sartre was right, hell is other people. So was Picasso, who said that, “without great solitude, no serious work is possible.” And then there’s Steve Wosniak, who in his memoir explained that, “most inventors and engineers I’ve met are like me … they live in their heads. They’re almost like artists… And artists work best alone …. I’m going to give you some...
Federal Buzz: The price of innovation in federal... →
What an awesome idea!
Last month, in an effort to “modernize and rightsize government to make it more efficient, effective and accountable,” New York’s Spending and Government Efficiency Commission (SAGE) recommended the creation of a Government Innovation Fund that would focus on three initiatives: redesigning business processes, leveraging technology, and integrating government...
Cecilia Liao: Former Stanford professor to teach... →
cecilialiao:
Last year, Stanford Professor Sebastian Thrun offered an online course on Artificial Intelligence for any internet-connected students from around the world, and close to 160,000 people took part in the course.
This year, Professor Thrun has quit Stanford and will be running a 7-week course…