Tag Archives: media

The Clip Report: An eBook on the Future of Media

This post was originally published on Steve Rubel’s Tumblr, The Clip Report.

In the early 1990s when I began my career in PR there were clip reports. These were physical books that contained press clips. It seems downright archaic now but that’s how I learned about the press – by cutting, pasting up and photocopying clippings. My fascination with the media never abated.

Today my role is to form insights into how the entire overlapped media landscape – the pros, social channels, and corporate content…

Media Strikes Back

Originally posted on 6 A.M.

At Edelman’s fourth Annual New Media Academic Summit, we convened a superb group of senior media executives who offered insights into the future of the sector. They included Raju Narisetti, managing editor of the Washington Post; Greg Coleman, president of Huffington Post; Gerard Baker, deputy editor in chief of the Wall Street Journal; Jonah…

Friday Five: Places To Look For Platform-Specific News

We have a late-breaking Friday Five today that functions as the best kind of Ask the Experts column. When you need to know the latest and greatest on some of the most prominent social tools in the digerati arsenal, these five sources are the folks to read.

Foursquare

Foursquare’s company blog is updated only a few times a month with information about system upgrades and random musings from founder @dens, to get a more in depth look at the happenings at Foursquare I check out

Reshaping The Media

Originally posted on 6 A.M.

We had a Media Future panel at the Edelman Global Leadership meeting this week. Two of the participants, Jonathan Miller of Newscorp and Chrystia Freeland of Thomson Reuters, had particularly acute observations about the way forward for their industry. So did Matthew Bishop, who addressed our team on Wednesday evening.

Evolution of Three Segments—Miller and Freeland agree that mainstream media must have a dual revenue stream…

Managing The Conflict Between A Personal Brand And A Corporate Brand

 

Originally posted on Britopian.

Everyone has a brand whether they like it or not. I am not talking about the clothes you wear or the car you drive either; that’s definitely part of it. The brand I am talking about is your attitude, how you carry yourself and the perception that others have about you; not that you have of yourself. Do you have a mediocre brand or one that is stellar and stands out from the crowd? Whatever the…

Quick Hits: May 21

NBC Turns Television Into a Social Media Game

Fan It is an interesting new initiative by NBC that aims to tie social networking directly into its programming. In combination with myNBC, NBC’s online fan community, the program rewards users who converse around and promote – through Twitter, MySpace, Facebook and Foursquare integration – NBC shows. This kind of social integration into television should provide new…

Thoughts On Media Reforestation And Algorithmic Journalism

Originally posted on The Steve Rubel Stream.

Over a year ago, I published an essay on Media Reforestation. In a nutshell, it’s my belief that all tangible forms of media will be in sharp decline or extinct in just a few years. I followed that up this week with

Friday Five: Building Engaging Facebook Fan Pages

Fan Pages continue to be the space for brands to communicate with users on Facebook. As Facebook updates its privacy guidelines for personal use and fan pages, engagement strategies will become modified to suit the needs and constraints of the service.

Initiate and Drive Dialogue

Interesting fact: If Facebook were a country, it would be the world’s fourth largest with…