Imagine what it would be like if people asked to be your “Friend” on the street, asked you if they could “Poke” you, and followed you around? English National Opera has produced a hysterical look at what the world would be like if your social media activities occurred in real life. Check it out….
Facebook tips for journalists, from Facebook
Vadim Lavrusik, Facebook’s new journalism program coordinator, has starting talking to journalists publicly about how they can better use Facebook. At Columbia’s recent Social Media Weekend, he gave a presentation in which he offered some interesting facts and tips. The presentation is included below. Here are some of the highlights.
Panoramic photos of Joplin before and after tornado
What a great use of a simple web tool to illustrate a story in a new and interesting way: The New York Times uses panoramic images from Google Maps Street View to show two locations in Joplin, Mo. before and after the devastation. Pan around either image to see how the scenes compares before and after. Check [...]
What media sites can learn from the airline industry
What if media organizations could upsell their audience on a better customer experience, the same way airlines charge more for Business class? Oliver Reichenstein, from the design agency Information Architects, proposes that news sites should do just that, rather than focus primarily on pay walls and charging for information. In other words, what he means is that [...]
Why and how The Daily needs to be more ALIVE and real-time
While The Daily has improved some of the technological issues that plagued it early on, CBS MarketWatch founder Larry Kramer says it still has a ways to go to truly take advantage of the medium. He’d like to see “more interactive and video content, in real-time, bringing the story to life with every form of [...]
SB Nation’s ambitious plans go beyond sports
CEO Jim Bankoff says SB Nation is aiming to be a “great media company” in various content verticals, he tells Beet.TV in this interview. The site has made its first big content move outside of sports with the hiring of several former Engadget staffers to launch a new technology vertical, and is setting up a [...]
12 great tips for digital media startups (from Startup 2011)
Silicon Alley Insider’s Startup 2011 conference this week covered all the hot topics in entrepreneurship, from pivots to bubble talk, and left a pretty positive vibe about the New York startup community, capped by NYC Chief Digital Officer Rachel Sterne telling Silicon Valley to “Bring it on!” Here are 12 of the best tips and [...]
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