Frank Sesno of “Planet Forward.” One approach: Newsrooms could attract a crowdsourced pool of community advisers At Sustainatopia — the Caribbean-flavored conference in Miami that brought social entrepreneurs, VCs, journalists, artisans, celebrities, media activists and a fair number of Miami’s beautiful people together for a celebration of sustainability — an interesting discussion broke out […]
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Metrics advice: Think KPIs not ROI
Web 2.0 sf 2011 metrics View more presentations from margaretfrancis One of the most packed sessions at this last’s Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco was “Measuring the Future: New Metrics for New Media,” a solo talk given by Margaret Francis, Vice President of Product at Lithium, one of our top 10 social media monitoring […]
Media reform & sustainability on tap in Miami
Strategies to drive citizen engagement and social innovation I‘ll be one of the speakers at Media2Movements, a gathering in Miami on Wednesday that will focus on the escalating changes in the mediasphere. Put on by Ashoka and underwritten by the Knight Foundation, Media2Movements will bring together a number of new media luminaries, including old friends […]
Social media, tech & marketing events: April
I’ll be attending Where 2.0, which focuses on mobile technologies. Here’s our roundup of social media, tech and marketing conferences and events for the month of April. Lots of cool gatherings on tap. For the full year, see our full Calendar of 2011 social media, tech and marketing conferences. We’ve also published a roundup […]
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. (