September, 2010

B2B Memes

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Will the Web Have A Past?

B2B Memes

Photo by Jennifer Dickert. Though Wired has declared it dead , I think the Web has a future. I’m not so sure it will have a past. A while back, I spent a few idle hours trying to explore the archives of Jeff Jarvis’s BuzzMachine blog, in search of some legendary Dell Hell and early insights from the master. As you pass backward through the abysm of time, all’s well until July 2005, when the monthly navigational links give out, and you have to keep pressing “older” over and over.

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Managing Your Career in the Social Media Era: Sources

B2B Memes

As part of a webinar for B2B editors on September 23, 2010, I’m speaking on “Managing Your Career in the Social Media Era.” (The webinar, “ Enhancing Your Career in the B2B Press ,” is sponsored by the American Society of Business Press Editors.). Since the webinar format isn’t particularly conducive to embedded links, I’ve listed here the main sources cited in my talk.

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Start-Up Briefing Media Ltd. Blends Old with New

B2B Memes

Rory Brown. It’s almost a new-media axiom that traditional publishers can’t move forward effectively online because they have too much skin in the old-media game. While these B2B publishers have a highly evolved understanding of their markets, their inability to sacrifice the “ cash cow in the coal mine ” keeps them mired in the past. Logically, then, the most exciting and successful advances in B2B media should come from those with an understanding of B2B markets but without the old-media burde

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Another Nail in the RSS Coffin

B2B Memes

The default Paper.li view (click to enlarge). When I first saw the details on the Flipboard iPad app (via Rexblog , I believe), I’ve figured my days of using NetNewsWire on a daily basis were numbered. By creating a newspaper out of the Twitter users you follow, Flipboard offers an incredibly convenient way of reading what they recommend. But since I’m holding out for gen 2 of the iPad, the death of my RSS habit was strictly theoretical.

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