Paths to the new journalism View more presentations from JD Lasica. The future of journalism will be more social & entrepreneurial With the business models of traditional news media in free fall, it’s a precarious time for journalism. Earlier this month I did an hourlong video chat with a class of journalism students at the […]
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Pandora’s love-filled journey to dominance
Tim Westergren, founder and CEO of Pandora (photo taken with my video camera). And other highlights of NewComm Forum 2010 I‘ve been spending the week at NewComm Forum, the annual gathering of communications, marketing, PR and new media thinkers and doers in San Mateo, Calif. I now have years of distance from the newspaper […]
GroundReport: Citizen journalism gets richer
Five years ago we launched Ourmedia.org as the first free hosting and sharing site for video and digital media (yes, before YouTube). Secretly, I wished that more of the videos, photos and text dispatches coming through the door were high-quality citizen journalism reports.It took a few years, but citizen journalism has grown up. Exhibit A: GroundReport, a citizen journalism site with an international perspective.
PicApp: Free quality images for your blog
PicApp: Quality images for your blog from JD Lasica on Vimeo. Have you noticed that blogging has been getting more professional lately? Part of it is the wealth of classy-looking templates and widgets available for users of WordPress, TypePad and other blog platforms. But it’s also due to plug-ins like Zemanta (which I now […]
PeopleBrowsr: Find and act on Twitter conversations
PeopleBrowsr: Follow conversations about you or a topic from JD Lasica on Vimeo. Service offers free monitoring, paid campaigns & analytics An increasing number of businesses and nonprofits understand that there are valuable conversations taking place about their brands and organizations that they need to tap into — it’s hard to hold a conversation […]