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How Fortune Magazine Sold Me An Issue

by Jonathan Coffman May 9, 2011

As you may have read here, here, and here, Fortune Magazine’s “Fortune 500″ issue just hit newsstands — and guess what? One of the cover stories is an in-depth look at the inner workings of Apple and Steve Jobs. Who can resist a good story about Apple? I sure can’t! The folks over at Fortune [...]

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Working on the site a little…

by Jonathan Coffman May 25, 2009

First off, thank you for sticking with me. I’ve really done a fantastic job of ignoring my blog for the last several months. In the mean time, I’ve been spending most of my time over on Twitter where I’ve amassed a nice little following. In the meantime, there has been a lot of thinking going [...]

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Meet Me at SxSW Interactive

by Jonathan Coffman February 20, 2009

Meet and Chat with me and other PBS Employees at the SxSW Interactive Festival March 13-17, 2009. In just a few short weeks I’ll be headed down to the SxSW Interactive Festival (I’ll be in Austin March 13-17) with PBS Engage. We have lots of very fun events planned and lots of opportunities for you [...]

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Other Blogs

by Jonathan Coffman January 5, 2009

Here are some other blogs that I’ve written or edited for: PBS Engage Blog – The social media laboratory at the Public Broadcasting Service The Convergency Room – Convergence Journalism blog of the Missouri School of Journalism Changing The Web World – New Media blog for KOMU Combatting Autism From Within – Microsite and blog for KOMU [...]

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Top 3 Twitter Tips

by Jonathan Coffman November 18, 2008

Top 3 Twitter Tips Whenever I tell someone that I work in social media (and explain to them that social media is things like blogs, wikis, Twitter, Facebook, etc) they almost always come back and ask me what Twitter is and why someone would use it. I’ll save that post for another day (although I’ve [...]

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Notice Anything Different? My Site Has A New Color Scheme!

by Jonathan Coffman October 16, 2008

For the last couple of weeks I’ve been working with a talented young person to revise and revamp the look and feel of my blog. The new design went live sometime last week but in case you only get my posts via Email or RSS – visit the site and take a look. I’ve brightened [...]

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Why Doesn't Facebook Embrace Social Media?

by Jonathan Coffman October 14, 2008

Facebook is the 900 pound gorilla in the room when it comes to consumer’s ideas about “social media” and “social networking”, So why doesn’t Facebook embrace that fact and have a conversation with their own community? Sure, they’re want to be a public company, they’ve got thousands of employees, millions of dollars worth of bills, [...]

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Lip shaped pita bread

by Jonathan Coffman September 28, 2008

Ok, so this isn’t my typical post, but something amazing happened tonight when I was eating mini pita for dinner. A pita shaped like lips! It’s the craziest thing. Unfortunately it wasn’t a Jesus shaped pita, otherwise I’d be posting this to eBay instead of my blog. The picture follows. Tweet

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Hurricane Ike Media Review: KHOU.com

by Jonathan Coffman 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 [...]

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