Jack hammers are rattling in the background. A loud jarring noise that vibrates my windows and makes it difficult for me to focus on writing a presentation. Another distraction is a world filled with distractions. So it was a happy coincidence that as I was reading the New York Times this morning, I came upon [...]
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Tag Archives: New York Times
The Wrath of Everyone & How to Avoid It
November 14, 2011
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If you’re a brand (or a celebrity) and you make a mistake on a social network then expect the following: Righteous fury directed right at you in a sudden firestorm Personal insults and questions about your intelligence, character and integrity Lectures from social media “experts” (usually in the form of condescending blog posts) providing you [...]
Read moreTweets Are the Future of Journalism & the Future is Now
August 25, 2011
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The New York Times last night published a story on Steve Jobs resigning his post as CEO of Apple. No, this blog post isn’t about Apple or Jobs, but about how the New York Times covered the news. Here are the concluding paragraphs in the article: “Twitter, the instant messaging service, filled with an outpouring [...]
Read moreNewspapers Should Replace Reporting with Journalism
July 28, 2011
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Reporting isn’t journalism. This is a distinction that few people understand, including many in the news business. And an inability to distinguish between the two is one reason why newspapers and other traditional media outlets continue to lose paying customers to the Web. We no longer need traditional media and professional reporters to inform us [...]
Read more We are Living in the Age of Hyper Speed
July 6, 2011
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Good luck keeping up. News, events and crises move like a flash of lightning. As a communicator or a marketer, you can find yourself neck-deep in trouble because you decided to walk to the sub shop next door to pick-up your lunch. Today’s case in point: Entenmann’s. The pastry maker published a tweet yesterday to [...]
Read moreSocial Media Myth Busting: Engagement
May 23, 2011
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First, I’d like to come clean. Guilty as charged! I speak the word “engagement” ad nauseam. It’s one of those words I’m required to use as a social media consultant (Rule #34 in the Social Media Bible we all get from Mark Zuckerberg at Facebook). I’m talking about big “E” engagement – the idea of [...]
Read moreDon’t Forget Blogging – Even Though Everyone Else Seems to Have
May 18, 2011
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At times blogging seems so… yesterday (Not unlike those photographs of your high school prom when you were wearing a baby-blue tuxedo, a navy-blue cumber bun and a bow-tie the size of an airplane propeller). Wasn’t it yesterday that Technorati was tracking more than 133 million blogs – with thousands literally being created daily? Now [...]
Read moreThe New York Times Big Gamble: Paywalls (Again)
March 17, 2011
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Starting on March 28, the New York Times will dive headfirst – yet again – into digital subscriptions and… take a deep breath… paywalls. Or should I say the dreaded and much maligned paywalls. The last time the New York Times tried this they dove into the shallow end of the pool and nearly broke [...]
Read more Has Blogging Entered its Twilight?
February 22, 2011
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The answer is no, absolutely not. But I’ll get back to that in a moment. The blogging is dead meme has been around for a few years (I first read about blogging’s demise at ReadWriteWeb in 2007). So it isn’t a surprise that the New York Times recently tackled the issue and declared: “Blogs were [...]
Read moreNews Moves Faster Than We Do
February 8, 2011
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Even The Flash has trouble keeping up the news. You can’t keep up with the news anymore. But don’t be alarmed because nobody else can either. Once upon a time news got delivered on your doorstep in a static format. It was there for you to read – at your leisure – within the next [...]
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