Bill Ives at FASTForward Blog: Dean Takahashi at Venture Beat shared with us a summary of a recent Deloitte survey on the state of media. The report concludes that, “We’re living in a media democracy, where no single form of media dominates the attention of Americans. It’s also an age where everyone contributes to the […]
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2009 conferences: Social media, tech, marketing
I published this a week ago but am republishing it now because it’s quite timely on Jan. 1 and because I added several additional events to the calendar.
For the past two years I put together a calendar of some of the best social media, technology, media and marketing conferences for the upcoming year. Here’s the list for 2009. Apologies, I had to leave out events outside the U.S. or the list would triple in size, and I left out newspaper conferences.
Death watch: tangible media
Social marketing expert Shel Holz begins a Death Watch series on "various media whose death has been widely predicted." He kicks off the series today with a look at the coming decline in tangible media — books, magazines and newspapers — as media continue to flow into digital containers. Let’s take these one at a […]
Journalism as a conversation
Saw University of Memphis journalism prof Carrie Brown’s tweet about this. I don’t often link to graduate students’ thesis papers, but this is an elegant read: Journalism-as-a-Conversation: A Concept Explication (Word doc), by Doreen Marchionni, a doctoral student at the University of Missouri-Columbia (which is still turning out the bright ones). Excerpt: Journalism can’t tell […]
Takeaways from Future of Media Summit
Didn’t take notes during last night’s Future of Media Summit in Mountain View, Calif. As usual, the connections in the audience were as interesting as the conversation on stage. (If a podcast goes up, I’ll let you know.) About 150 people took part in Sydney and another 50 Stateside. Disappointing that in 2008, the videoconferencing […]