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Managing Your Career in the Social Media Era: Sources

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The webinar, “ Enhancing Your Career in the B2B Press ,” is sponsored by the American Society of Business Press Editors.). 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 Future of news: Insider Dave Morgan touts new media.

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No Monopoly on Lousy Content

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There’s little editing, no quality control — it’d be understandable if this was user-generated content, but the junk is coming from major media companies, ones with paid content producers. Bardella suggests that his job is much easier than it should be: “‘Some people in the press, I think, are just lazy as hell.

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Breaking News: People Who Like Print, Like Print

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I have nothing but admiration for the company and its staff. So anything I say here is not intended as a criticism of the company. The Readex press release doesn’t give much detail on the demographics of respondents, but I’d guess that most of them are existing readers of legacy publishers.

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Worried That Journalist Robots Will Replace You? Say “I”

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Two of those companies, Narrative Science and Automated Insights , are developing programs that churn through computerized data about sports and other topics and spit out news stories. It doesn’t take very long for rewriting new-product press releases to evolve from informative introduction to an industry to stultifying drudgery.

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Paul Conley: Has the Content Marketing Dream Become a Nightmare?

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” He was among the first in the trade press to recognize the significance of social media. And my experience has been that the overwhelming majority of these companies don’t have a culture that is open to journalism. These companies don’t have the stomach for news and the confrontations it can promote.

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Is Your Content Putting You at Risk?

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For B2B companies embracing their new role as publishers, the content marketing community has produced a huge archive of valuable advice. The following three questions, based on your relationship to your content, your audience, and to the people and companies you cover, should get you started. Your company owns the content.

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Beats vs. Obsessions: More Lessons for B2B from Quartz

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Anderson worries that giving up on beats means abandoning the “monitorial” role of the press. Most B2B publishers talk a lot about data, but mostly to ask, “Gee, how can we sell our data to companies and make a lot of money?” Lichfield’s post has provoked a range of reactions. The way you do it is through data.