What’s this? Even in an age of democratized media, where the barbarians have not only stormed the gates but made a nice bouillabaisse out of the media guardians formerly known as The Gatekeepers, there’s a need for curators? Well, yes. In fact, curators are needed now more than ever, Steve Rosenbaum argues in his fun, insightful, passionate and satisfying new book Curation Nation. Curators, you might say, are the distant cousins of gatekeepers.
Six years ago today, a video revolution was born
It’s hard to fathom now, but six years ago YouTube, free video hosting and democratic video sharing didn’t exist. Then, six years ago today, Ourmedia.org burst onto the scene and helped launch a video revolution.
The “media” part of social media has become so engrained in our culture in such a short time that it’s worth looking back at how quickly things have changed — and why it matters. (
Review: ‘Social Marketing to the Business Customer’
Istill run into executives and top-tier managers who think of social networking as an employee productivity drain. For anyone who shares a similar point of view, run to your nearest bookstore and pick up a copy of “Social Marketing to the Business Customer” by Paul Gillin and Eric Schwartzman (disclosure: I’m friends with both authors).
The book is chock full of meaty, real-world examples of how to grow your business using B2B and B2C strategies and tactics.
ICANN weighs the next wave of Web domains
Today through Friday, ICANN — the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers — meets in San Francisco for one of the three meetings it will hold in different regions of the globe this year.
Among the items on the agenda: the next generation of top-level Internet domain names.
In this seven-minute video interview that I recorded last year, Elliot Noss, CEO of Tucows, talks about the next generation of Internet domain names.
Free ebook: ‘New Trends in CRM’
Report offers insights into the state of customer relationships Customer relationship management, or CRM, has become a misused term of art by those who focus too much on software tools and lose sight of the internal business processes where customers are lost or gained. A new 24-page ebook, New Trends in CRM, has just been […]