Happy Friday! This week has featured some interesting developments between media brands, technology and social media, including: ABC’s live-streaming programming on iPad and iPhones, Twitter’s new partnerships with several media brands, and NPR’s redesigned mobile site. Read more…
If you’re like most conference managers, you know there are a lot of things that can go wrong at a conference. Here are some of the biggest problems I’ve encountered (and reacted to) while producing events–is your biggest event disaster on this list? Share your story in the comments–and tell us how you handled the situation. Read more…
Happy Friday! Grab a cocktail, watch the sunset, and savor this week’s best in media, including LinkedIn’s news ‘channels,’ Condé Nast’s new web series and b-to-b ecommerce site, and Syrians hacking The Onion. Read more…
Choosing the perfect conference venue for your event is one of the most important decisions that you will need to make. Step one? You need a strategy! Here’s a review of some of the key factors you need to think through beforehand — so that you are fully prepared before you begin your search. Read more…
It was an interesting week in media, so get ready for happy hour and catch up with this week’s best stories, including: 1) The Times is Now No. 2 In Newspaper Circulation, 2) Reuters.com Redesign: “A Modern River of News,” and 3) Native Ads Debut in Yahoo’s Stream, Get Realtime on HuffPo. Read more…
If you’re in the conference business, you know that your alumni list and other internal databases are going to be your number one source of potential attendees for your next event. But what if you’re launching a new event? Or would simply like to supplement your existing database with fresh names? Read more…
Check out this week’s best stories in media, including: The New York Times lifts its paywall from video content, Gannett’s digital revenue jumps 75% from digital newspaper and app revenue, and For The Win looks to become a viral sports media site. Read more…
I’m an API geek. I like my airport status reports in JSON format. An API, or Application Programming Interface, allows different bits of software to communicate with each other, without necessarily knowing the nuts and bolts of how the other bits work. In order to display tweets onscreen at an event, I don’t have to know what flavor database Twitter uses or what language it was programmed in. I only need to know a simple set of rules and methods that Twitter has defined in its API.
Ok. Right. But why should non-programmers care about APIs? Read more…
Happy hour is here, so why not celebrate with this week’s best in media? Take a look at Glamour’s sponsored Hangouts on Google+, “expert curation” on news platform Newsana and The Week’s success in digital. Read more…
It’s Friday afternoon, and that means it’s time for two things: 1) a fabulous martini (or your drink of choice) and 2) a quick look at this week’s best stories in media. Our picks this week include: the Orange County Register’s hard paywall (non-paying readers get nothing) and membership (aka subscription) perks; native ad platform ‘BrandVoice’ leading to serious revenue growth for Forbes; and The Wall Street Journal’s mobile video tool WorldStream attracting some serious advertiser attention. Read more…
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