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Content “curation” can create authority

March 4, 2010

Traditionally, the most valued content was original.
This emphasis developed within a content model of constrained distribution and expensive production costs. When there are only a handful of distribution points for content — some magazines, books, a handful of TV station and radio stations — the way to build audience was to deliver original and [...]

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A media tip for home buyers focuses on using the social web for search

February 22, 2010

Here’s a good example of how people are shifting the way they think about looking for information given the power of the social web.
The information about homes for sale is incredibly well-organized and ubiquitous.  Still, this story over the weekend from the Chicago Tribune offers a how-to for consumers to shift their search onto the [...]

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A new web paradigm that emphasizes the social circle over digital data bases takes shape

February 22, 2010

The discussion about Facebook experienced a tipping point last week: third-party data confirmed what many observers had been suggesting, that Facebook exerts a powerful influence on how consumers are using the web.
Sheer scale is the first hurdle. Compete released data that showed Facebook outstripping Google in terms of web visits in January, a [...]

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A perspective on Content Curation, Content Costs and Consumer Engagement from Anna Seave

February 18, 2010

Steve Rosenbaum did a great interview with Columbia’s Ana Seave that was published on MediaBizBloggers earlier this week.
Seave is one of the key contributors to The Curse of the Mogul, required reading for anyone in the media business who wants to dig into the critical issues facing media companies and their business models.
Seave’s thought a [...]

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Change in publishing organizations: What’s necessary and how do you get there?

February 18, 2010

I’ve been invited by Tony Silber of Folio: to sit on a panel at their annual conference with Forbes’ Dan Bigman to talk about being an Agent of Change in a publishing organization.
As the three of us kicked the topic around, it was clear that Tony was looking for a basic blueprint for how publishers [...]

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The value of sharing knowledge, even when it’s not about your product

February 18, 2010

Over the past year, I’ve been encouraging our teams to have gain expertise about social media and have conversations with their customers about how these new tools can help them in their business.
Where I’ve met resistance is from people who ask, Why? Our business is advertising, and we’ve got print and internet products to [...]

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What does the mobile internet look like?

February 12, 2010

The terms mobile internet and applications are pretty much abstractions unless you are right in the middle of it.
If you’re not one of the 10 million people or so who’ve moved to the iPhone, let me give you a brief tour of Let me show you what it means.
The four images to the right are [...]

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