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My presentation at the Niche Media Conference in Tempe

February 2, 2010

I’m running a workshop at Carl Landau’s Niche Media Conference in Tempe, AZ this morning.  The focus is on providing a content for niche media brands to think about social media and their business goals.
Here’s the workbook at I’m using for the presentation.  I’ll post later about the session and talk about some of the [...]

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Some observations about why Doug Manoni should be successful at Source Media

January 20, 2010

Congratulations to my friend and former colleague Doug Manoni, who was named CEO of Source Media this week.
Doug and I worked at Cowles Business Media through the better part of the 1990′s. At the end, Doug was my CFO.
He’s an interesting study for people who wonder about the future of business-to-business companies. Doug [...]

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10 years past, 10 years forward

December 23, 2009

10 doesn’t sound like a big number, but when you start looking back over a decade, 10 years of an ever-expanding and innovating world, 10 years feels huge and unwieldy.
At the beginning of this past decade (the first decade of the 21th Century…how cool!) I was working with an Internet company called Themestream, started by [...]

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The top 10 posts on ViralHousingFix in 2009

December 17, 2009

As the year winds down, I was curious which posts over the course of the year were the most popular. I was pleased to see that the posts that had resonated the most with all of you were ones that I felt like I’d achieved some clarity around an idea that I’d been working [...]

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The discussion around content shifts to a curation model

November 19, 2009

This summer, I did several posts about the shift that I believe needs to take place in traditional publishing workflows in order to adapt to the new web environment and stake out a strong position serving online communities. At the core of this shift is the concept of Sharing, distinct from the traditional linear publishing [...]

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The limitation of the concept of “Blog”

November 19, 2009

Tell someone that you have a blog, or that you think they should have a blog, and you’ll get met more often than not by blank stares.
What’s a blog? Too often, we describe it as a place where people are able to publish whatever they want on the web.
From Wikipedia:

The term “weblog” was coined [...]

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Media strategy: The uniqueness of an online audience

November 17, 2009

I’ve been intrigued by the dynamics of the online audiences in the primary markets that we serve at NCI. In the past, I’ve written about the surprisingly low overlap among the visitors to the leading online apartment aggregators (termed ILS’s in the multi-family industry.)
We’re finishing up some interesting research on the different ways that [...]

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