Posts Tagged ‘new media’

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Joe Morris

Of Olympic Coverage and Failure to Satisfy …

Whether it's a multibillion-dollar, 16-day global broadcasting spectacle or your company's social-media or print product, it's never a good idea to take advice only up to a point.

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Picture This: Connecting Photogs With Bootleggers

Oh, for the days when attaching artwork to a blog simply meant pinging around the Internet, running searches and eventually snagging a suitable image and dropping it into place. You can still do that, but now you’re much more likely to get into trouble if that artwork is copyrighted and you haven't asked for permission — or paid the photographer/artist.

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Joe Morris

5 to Follow: Tourist Attractions

Nashville is Music City USA. Visitors come here to hang out in the honky-tonks, listen to the buskers on Lower Broadway and cruise around Music Row looking for their favorite singers. (Country music superstars don’t live on Music Row, but let’s not tell the tourists; why spoil their fun?) But once the out-of-towners get here, [...]

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Ashley Akin

Facebook Timeline: What You Need to Know Now

If you've been on Facebook for any significant amount of time, you have likely seen the mass disapproval that often accompanies change. And we're probably about to witness another wave of that.

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Joe Morris

Social Media: I Don’t Like Your Tone!

In the mad rush to get something, anything, out onto a social media platform (or two, or three), the content can take a backseat to the process.

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Chrissy Sievers

Search: Online “Filter Bubbles”

As Internet companies attempt to personalize their services to each user, there is an unintended result: we view an edited down version of reality that colors the world that we see. Eli Pariser discusses this in his latest TED talk that you can watch here.

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Becky Henson

Advocating for Net Neutrality (Part 2 of 3)

When the New York Times posted this story last week, I think my heart really skipped a beat. I thought my worst nightmare was about to come true, and I really didn't want to delete my Google account, get rid of my Android phone and get lost without my Google navigation.

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Matt Bigelow

Online Content Marketing on the Rise

A pair of New York Times' articles regarding content marketing caught my attention recently: After Drought, Hope for Shows Made for Web and Vice, a Media Company, Shows Big Brands How to Reach the Hip Crowd.

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Chrissy Sievers

How Influential Are You?

Fast Company, a magazine and website that empowers innovators to create the future of business, has recently begun a new experiment called The Influence Project. Its aim is to show what happens when your passive online audience is asked to act based on your suggestions. The result is a sleekly designed visualization of your online influence in action, ultimately locating the most influential person in the project.

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Chrissy Sievers

Why is Web Usability Important?

Not only is web usability important, it's vital. In a competitive world of big-name brands and corporations fighting for the same space, you can’t simply launch a site and trust it’ll engage your audience. Developing your site from the ground up with the user in mind will increase the chances of conversion and gaining yourself a loyal customer base.

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