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Hurricane Ike Media Review: KHOU.com

September 15, 2008

Among the Houston based local media scene, KHOU is a solid contender and very popular station. Like the other local network affiliates they had “wall to wall” coverage on-air and online. Their broadcast transmission was also being streamed live online.
I do want to preface each of these reviews with the web technology or content management [...]

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Hurricane Ike Media Review: Judging Criteria

September 15, 2008

As I mentioned yesterday, I’m going to be writing reviews of the local and national media’s response to Hurricane Ike this past weekend.
What I’ll focus on:

Update frequency
Web site usability
User generated content solicitation and usage
Multi-media coverage
Distribution of content outside the “walled garden”
Innovation, or lack thereof in coverage

Where I’m coming from:

I have family who lives in a [...]

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The Week Ahead: Reviews of the Media Response to Hurricane Ike

September 14, 2008

All next week I’ll be walking you through the online and on-air media response of both the national and Houston based media. As opposed to most national disasters I actually have a personal connection to this one with my family living in Missouri City, Texas, a Houston suburb. I currently live and work in the [...]

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Houston Chronicle Excels in Hurricane Ike Coverage

September 13, 2008

As someone who not only is interested in news and journalism, but who also works in social media for a living I constantly see television stations and newspapers who either don’t take advantage of advances in technology or completely ignore the true value in the power of people.
This morning as I think about my family [...]

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How I Exercise My Mind

April 23, 2008

Because I’m constantly connected to real people as well as the Internet it can be difficult sometimes to keep your mind sharp and on focus. I’m not perfect in that regard, that’s for sure. But I do try to keep a fairly clean calendar with important events and conversations. 
In addition to my email and calendar [...]

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Removing the Newspaper Moniker

March 18, 2008

A more recent than not change in the newspaper world is the lack us the word “newspaper” to describe the business. This is as much public fluff and PR as it is anything else.

It’s all great and good to move forward and evolve a little, but its another thing altogether to wake up and not [...]

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Why Your Business Needs To Focus On Relationships More and On Money Less – Dawud Miracle @ dmiracle.com -

March 4, 2008

Why Your Business Needs To Focus On Relationships More and On Money Less – Dawud Miracle @ dmiracle.com -: “”
(Via dmiracle.)

I’ve blogged many times before about the lack of effective monetization for news organizations on the web. It’s not just news orgs that need better ads and monetization strategies, believe me, I’ve been there.

Many of [...]

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4 News Companies Ally to Sell Ads on the Internet – New York Times

February 29, 2008

4 News Companies Ally to Sell Ads on the Internet – New York Times

Gannett, Tribune, Hearst, and the New York Times company are joining forces to try to sell more advertising. And it couldn’t have come at a better time. This was release about two weeks ago but I didn’t get a chance to read [...]

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Captology.tv – Persuasive Media Insights

October 29, 2007

Captology.tv | Sharing Media and Insights about Persuasive Technology
My primary focus is often pervasive media, but this class is devoted to the persuasive power of new-media. It’s not a site that I visit real often, but it does often have interesting nuggets of information about how people are using media and social applications with [...]

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