NPR’s experiments with social media from JD Lasica on Vimeo. Andy Carvin, social media strategist for NPR.org, has spent the past several years experimenting with innovative approaches to the news. As the head of National Public Radio’s social media desk, he’s been given a sandbox to foster high-quality journalism using social tools in an age […]
Citizen media
Unigo: Student-powered college advice
At South By Southwest Interactive in Austin Texas, earlier this month — inside the bloggers lounge — I ran into Julia Kaganskiy, the social media and community manager for Unigo.com. If you haven’t heard of Unigo, you will. It’s a crowdsourced college guide that offers honest appraisals of life at hundreds of U.S. colleges, including […]
Mashup culture and social media
Just left the final session of Remix/Mashup 2009: The Future of Creative Production and Ownership at Ohio State’s Moritz College of Law, which explored the implications of mashup and remix in the world of Web 2.0. They reached out to me last fall and I couldn’t resist flying out — this was the first conference […]
Is email marketing still relevant in a 2.0 world?
Lee published Is email marketing still relevant in a 2.0 world? which is not only the most complete description of what we at Abraham Harrison LLC do on a daily basis but it is said in a better, more comprehensive, way than I could even conceive of doing myself. Here it is, in full. Be sure to visit (and subscribe to) Better Communication Results, Lee Hopkin’s blog.
Middle schoolers as citizen reporters
Just watched the Inauguration and inaugural address. I’ll let the blogosphere’s version of the punditocracy dissect it (I’ve confined my remarks to Twitter.) Meantime, back in the social media/citizen media space: Taking the media into your own hands has filtered down to the middle school level. I bumped into the reporting team from the Santa […]