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Digital First, Not Foremost

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In all the recent debate on the merits of the digital-first strategy for publishers ( neatly encapsulated today by Mathew Ingram ), there is one strand of discussion that never quite comes to the foreground. That is, they employed a print-first strategy. John Paton: Misguided, or misunderstood? That, of course is easier said than done.

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Digital First, Not Foremost

B2B Memes

In all the recent debate on the merits of the digital-first strategy for publishers ( neatly encapsulated today by Mathew Ingram ), there is one strand of discussion that never quite comes to the foreground. That is, they employed a print-first strategy. John Paton: Misguided, or misunderstood? That, of course is easier said than done.

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“Content Is Power”: Q & A with Mark W. Schaefer

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Learn enough about this new channel to ask the hard questions and integrate with your strategy as appropriate. Of course there are many uses and strategies for the social web, but at least with the businesses I work with, that is the biggest piece of advice I can give them. Truth as a marketing strategy. I love that!

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Start-Up Briefing Media Ltd. Blends Old with New

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I asked Brown by e-mail whether he could answer a few questions about Briefing Media’s strategy. Traditional publishers generally have a wide range of revenue streams, business models, technology platforms and staff that were established in a very different era of media. Is that a significant part of the strategy?

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This Might Be Big: IDG Enters Content Marketing

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But it appears that they will be offering a wide range of content strategy consulting, content creation, and software tools. Exactly what IDG’s “content development and content optimization services” will consist of is obscured by the typical press release jargon.

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Commodity Content, Demand Media, and Quality

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The weirdly fascinating thing for me about Demand Media is how it wants to build a high-growth business on commodity content. So the only clear high-growth strategy is to cut expenses, which means cutting quality. As private equity investors discovered, that strategy is not sustainable. I’m not convinced it’s possible.

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Should Journalists Learn to Code?

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The only exception he admits is any journalist who plans to quit the business before 2020. A reading of the recent ASBPE-Medill Survey on Digital Skills and Strategies suggests some of the challenges. Though he starts by reciting a long list of reasons not to code, he ends up fairly adamantly arguing the case for making it mandatory.

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