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A Look Back at the Year

by Jonathan Coffman December 3, 2011

As I sit on my balcony this cloudy and cool Saturday morning, all of the events of 2011 are flowing through my mind. What a change this year has brought! I recall thinking through various scenarios this past spring, trying to decide whether I wanted to stay in Washington, DC and help the entrepreneurial community there grow [...]

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Online Custom Tailored Shirt Review – Modern Tailor

by Jonathan Coffman July 23, 2011

About a month ago I was searching around online for some new clothing (as personal friends will know, I’ve been improving my lifestyle and have lost a fair amount of weight and have a changed body composition). Shortly after sending a tweet about needing some new clothing a representative from Modern Tailor sent me a [...]

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Constructing a Facebook Exclusive Content Fan/Like-Gate: Essential Resources

by Jonathan Coffman May 10, 2011

As a product and marketing guy I don’t often attempt (nor desire) to touch very much code. I’m thankful however to have been tasked with figuring out how to construct a fan/like-gate for PBS over the last several weeks. Freedom Riders by American Experience is the first show to offer up their content exclusively for [...]

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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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Content Delivery by Serendipity

by Jonathan Coffman July 6, 2010

I read several really good blog posts today that clearly articulate the power of location-based social networks for content providers, if you’re a brand marketer you need to be thinking through these issues. If you’re a public media institution, you should be experimenting with these tools. Read these blog posts, then come back here: Why [...]

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Upcoming Posts

by Jonathan Coffman February 1, 2010

Well, now that it’s February 2010 I’ve already pretty well given up on that New Years Resolution to blog each week! But… I do have some pretty amazing posts all in various phases of draftiness that will be coming your way over the coming weeks. Here’s a preview: The Innovators Dilemma (Public Media Edition) – [...]

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Announcing – PublicMediaCamp

by Jonathan Coffman August 4, 2009

After several months of chewing on and discussing it, PublicMediaCamp is finally being announced to the public today. Back in March of this year, Andy Carvin, Margaret Rosas, Jen Reeves, and several other passionate supporters of public and community media got together at DrupalCon DC to discuss the future and how tackle it. One thing [...]

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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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Gearing up for the Oscars

by Jonathan Coffman February 21, 2009

Today I’ll be hanging out at the AMC Loew’s Georgetown theatre to watch all 5 Best Picture nominees, courtesy of AMC Theatres. Be sure to follow my Tweets throughout the day for information about the event, the films, and more! Here are the films and times I’ll be in them: “Milk” – 10:30  a.m. – [...]

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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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