Posts Tagged ‘Media’

Moderator of the Medill Club Ethics Panel 2012, Professor Jack Doppelt with alums Joyce Hanson and Sally Fryberger

Brian Moylan, an editor at Gawker Media (and self-proclaimed “Gawker shit talker” on Twitter), remembers a recent spate of 20 minutes that seemed like the longest ever. He couldn’t click the refresh button on enough browsers fast enough. Having just spotted a Tweet on Billy Crystal’s feed announcing the nine-time Oscars host would be emceeing the Academy Awards yet again in 2012, he posted the news.

Moylan then realized the Academy had not yet confirmed the information—and anxiously awaited confirmation hoping the post would not have to be taken down (or crossed out and amended).

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Smartphones and Tablets are powerful enough that one might consider using them as their only computing device. While smartphones and tablets have the processing power equivalent to personal computers sold just a short time ago, one area in which they are significantly inferior to PCs is storage.
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This morning our parent network Mediabistro has got some exciting news on the online video front—they’ve just launched MediabistroTV, a new destination site for original video series catered to media professionals.

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Agence France-Presse became the latest media organization to clarify its guidelines for the use of social media, releasing its revised policy Wednesday.

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If you have a significant amount of pictures, music, or movies that you want to access with a tablet or smartphone, but your device is limited by the amount of storage it has, Seagate is providing an option to help you. The Seagate GoFlex Satellite mobile wireless storage provides 500 GB of portable storage that you can access from mobile devices with WiFi.
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In the future, newspapers will replace the internet, and the iPhone will be conspicuous by its absence.

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Don’t get too far into the giving spirit when sharing information with your favorite journalists. It could wind up costing you great market intel.

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It’s time for PR people to think like real marketers. Here are five steps to better results through analytics.

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If you watch the PR world, doubtless you’ve seen the “death of the press release” bandied about. Like many things (including newspapers), it’s been dying for a while. Like many things (in this case television), the actual final breath may take a while to reach. Nonetheless, the press releases is being usurped in some cases by the corporate blog, and this creates a new set of challenges for media outlets covering companies that have turned to this form of social media.

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I want to suggest a few questions to ask (and a few things to check) to determine whether a social media expert or his company is credible to give you advice/consult you on social media. What’s the expert’s definition of social media? How will he measure the success of your campaign? Do they have an experience in working with companies of same size? More of these questions (and explanations of what they mean) below. Read more