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Top 4 tips from Twitter Users to News Organizations

November 13, 2008

A long while back I asked my Twitter following to tell me what advice they would give to a news organization (or any company really) thinking about getting started on this platform. Here’s what they had to say:

@ddmcd – “Don’t Twitter anonymously — identify real people with specific addresses.”
@shawnr – “Tell them to NOT add [...]

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When TV Listens To Its Viewers, Amazing Things Happen

April 28, 2008

I’ve spent quite a bit of time looking at ways news organizations can connect and interact with their viewership. This morning I was greeted by a basic, but excellent interaction on Good Morning America. 
I’ve got ABC turned on in my hotel room this morning for background noise and they ran a story about the upcoming [...]

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On Email Organization

April 22, 2008

For the last month or so I’ve been on a rampage, an email rampage. I haven’t quite hit Inbox Zero but inbox 30-40 suits me well actually. Here’s what I’ve done:

I now have only 2 visible email addresses, Gmail and my @jonathancoffman.com mail. Those other addresses (.Mac, Yahoo!, Mizzou, and my secondary Gmail) all now get [...]

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Are Podcasts Dead?

April 7, 2008

In case you didn’t know, I’ll be in Las Vegas Sunday-Wednesday for the NAB conference (National Association of Broadcasters). The Reynolds Journalism Institute at the Missouri School of Journalism is sponsoring my trip so that I can present Contributr to the masses. (Let’s hope Contributr is ready, more on that tomorrow!)
As I was looking through [...]

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My Ideal Job

April 4, 2008

By way of looking introspectively at my self and my ambitions I have a pretty good idea of my ideal job is at this point. I’ve known for quite some time that being in the service of the public and working toward a greater good is in my blood. My mother was a teacher and [...]

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Convergence of the Future

March 19, 2008

News makers keep talking about backpack journalists and having reporters be good at everything. Now we all know that’s just not possible, but it hasn’t stopped the visionaries from proclaiming convergence journalism the future of news.

Convergence of the media is already happening of course, and convergence is the future. No longer is a television station [...]

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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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I’ll Be Featured on Adobe.com in March

February 15, 2008

I received some good news earlier this week, Team Contributr, myself included will be featured on the Adobe.com DevNet site in the month of March for our participation in the Reynolds Journalism Institute/Adobe Inc. AIR Journalism contest.

For those who didn’t know, I alongside a team of 3 other developers created a modular application that simplifies [...]

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My iGoogle Homepage Favorite Things

February 9, 2008

The iGoogle homepage is my personal portal of choice, for a number of reasons, once I just like having the Google search bar right there waiting for whenever I want. I don’t keep a lot of widgets and tabs saved onto it, but enough to get me the latest headlines from my news organizations of [...]

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