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New-Media Survival at SIPA 2012

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If you happen to be attending the event, I hope you’ll drop in to my presentation. I expect there will be more than a few attendees reporting on the event. Next Monday I’ll be sharing my ideas on this topic at the annual meeting of the Specialized Information Publishers Association (SIPA) in Washington, DC.

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Thanks to Social Media, I No Longer Mistake Terrorists for Water Dispensers

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Though I think of myself as a well-informed, up-to-date kind of guy, I have a history, shared with my wife, of drifting unconsciously out of the event stream and becoming completely unaware of what’s happening in the world. In the past, if we weren’t directly involved in major events, it sometimes took us a while to find out about them.

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Webcasts Grow Up

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In an online event this morning, webcast service provider On24 showed off a new webcasting platform that provides the kind of multimedia and social-media integration that the technology needs to thrive. In one of the earliest posts on this blog I complained about the lack of social-media awareness and interactivity in most B2B webcasts.

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Process vs. Product: Six New-Media Principles, No. 6

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Rather than imposing a neat narrative structure on events, real-time journalism acknowledges that the information is as yet fragmentary and its meaning still unresolved. But to new-media proponents , it is a truer picture than that painted by a traditional journalistic product like the self-contained and superficially coherent news article.

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NaNoWriMo, Social Media, and Measurability

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What started out in 1999 as a casual contest among 21 Bay Area writers has turned into a world-wide event that’s led to several best sellers and many thousands of novels that might never have otherwise been finished. Self-help tools for aspiring novelists predate social media, but none, to my knowledge, have had such widespread success.

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Three Common Failures in Online News: Are You At Fault?

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This exercise involves a comparison of articles posted by you and the opposition that cover the same or similar events. For a better-informed handle on whether your content is best of show, try a “Like-Item Analysis.” In many cases, the results may reveal that neither you nor your competitors can claim bragging rights.

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Ethics Must Come from the Heart As Well As the Head

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For those unfamiliar with these events, Nieman Lab’s Mark Coddington provides a superb overview. According to Moos, Romenesko had a years-long habit of insufficiently attributing quoted comments. The episode concluded with Romenesko’s resignation , several months ahead of a planned retirement.

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