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Remembering IDG's Gentle Media Giant Pat McGovern
Time’s Harry McCracken has written a wonderful column remembering Patrick McGovern, one of the most successful publishers of the past 50 years, and a huge proponent of tech when it was a far smaller...
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Can PR Be Automated? The Technologies Of Promotion Are On Their Way...
The media industry has been dragged kicking and screaming into the modern world and forced to adopt new media technologies and drastically overhaul its operations.The successful new media model is a...
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Here's How To Put Billions Back Into The Media Industry Overnight
Suzanne Vranica at the Wall Street Journal reported that between $6 billion and $18 billion is stolen every year in the US because of ad fraud. The Secret About Online Ad Traffic: One-Third Is Bogus...
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Nielsen Study Finds Very Poor Performance For Branded Content
Nielsen this week released the results of a multi-month study on consumer brand awareness and buying decisions. The study, commissioned by San Francisco-based InPowered, found that consumers rely on...
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PR's Next Big Challenge: Tooling Up For The War With Ad Agencies
Richard Edelman (right) with Steve Barrett, Editor-in-Chief of PR Week, at a Churchill Club event in 2013.Can PR companies “Show Up Differently” as Richard Edelman, CEO of Edelman, the world’s largest...
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When Every Company Is A Media Company: Content Marketing's Massive Blunder
When I first introduced the concept of every company is a media company in 2005 there were very few people that understood what this meant. Today it’s an accepted fact and it’s why there’s a massive...
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Pew: Impact Of Billionaire Funded Journalism Is Tiny
Billionaire funded journalism has received a lot of media attention over the past year as EBay’s Pierre Omidyar, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, and Berkshire Hathaway’s Warren Buffett have invested hundreds of...
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San Francisco's First Look At New Microsoft CEO
It was “Day 52” for Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and his first visit to San Francisco as head of the software giant. All the media were out in full to see him introduce Office on the iPad and to talk...
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Egnyte: Competing With Giants In The Cloud
I recently met with Vineet Jain, (above) CEO and co-founder of Egnyte, which offers file sharing for enterprises, with a hybrid cloud and data center model.My recent post about startups having to sell...
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The Hubbies: PR Awards For Digital Creatives
The first Hubbies awards (winners above) were presented in San Francisco earlier this week recognizing breakthrough digital creative work. It is organized by a new publication The Hub, a sister...
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The News Is Not Free: 14 Journalists Murdered in 2014
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — An Afghan police commander opened fire Friday on two Associated Press journalists inside a security forces base in eastern Afghanistan, killing prize-winning photographer Anja...
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Content Marketing Problems Will Lead To A Revived Media Industry
“Every company is a media company,” which is why there is a deluge of content marketing as companies struggle to produce media and build an audience.A new media publication typically budgets at least...
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Women In Tech: Award Winning Chip Scientist Kelin Kuhn
By Intel Free Press Though it has been more than a decade and a half since she left the “publish or perish” world of the university, Kelin Kuhn is still writing papers and award-winning ones at...
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Omidyar's First Look Media Searches For Strategy
Stephanie Buckley at Poynter, reported on a meeting hosted by Pierre Omidyar, the billionaire founder of First Look Media, with “about a dozen high-profile editors, journalism educators, industry...
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Gild Says Algorithms Can Lift People Out Of Poverty
I had a fascinating conversation recently with Vivienne Ming, Chief Scientist at Gild, a San Francisco based company that scans the Internet to identify potentially great software engineers for their...
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Matt Taibbi: 'Emotional Language' Is Important In Reporting Outrageous Events
Clara Jeffrey, Co-Editor, Mother Jones interviews Matt Taibbi.Matt Taibbi, the former Wall Street beat reporter for Rolling Stone, and now heading a digital magazine for Pierre Omidyar’s First Look...
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Victoria Espinel - Leading The Fight Against Bad Laws Restricting Digital...
Victoria Espinel, the recently appointed head of BSA | The Software Alliance (formerly Business Software Alliance) visited San Francisco recently to gauge the mood of Silicon Valley towards software...
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CultureWatch: The Fading Fashion Of Google Glass - Too Gauche For Social
Sarah Slocum’s recent experience at Molotov’s, a lower Haight Street bar where an irate drinker snatched her Google Glass off her face, did a lot to boost her popularity as TV and newspapers covered...
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Wearables: Putting Technology Second - Humans First
The ‘Human Factor’ is often overlooked in wearable computing…searching for feelings and emotions amid the technology.By Intel Free PressDesigners and engineers often create code or cool new hardware...
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Celebrating The Life Of Daniel Jabbour: An Intersection Of Psychedelics And...
The Psychedelic Society of San Francisco announced the sudden death of its 30 year old founder, Daniel Jabbour, a well known software engineer and political activist. He founded the society in November...
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