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Why Publishers Need Early Adopters, Annoying or Not

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Trade publishing has declined for plenty of other reasons as well, but resistance to new technologies and modes of communication has been a critical factor. I would suggest, in fact, that every B2B publisher and content marketer needs one or more early adopters in their midst. But few publishers need to be warned against that.

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Can Content Save Publishers? Only If They Wake Up

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Beyond the “paid media” that advertising represents, they also have the “owned media” of their own blogs, Facebook pages, and twitter accounts, and the “earned media” of online word-of-mouth. But now that advertisers no longer need publishers for distribution, what’s left to offer them? In theory, publishers still do.

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The Key to Understanding New Media Is Attitude, Not Technology

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A couple of years ago, Gina Trapani , the founder of Lifehacker and a cohost of This Week in Google , wrote and self-published the Complete Guide to Google Wave , which she described as “an experiment in iterative publishing.” As I wrote yesterday , Pinterest is not for everybody and is not trying to be the next Facebook.

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E-Books: The Next Front for Journalists in Transition

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The next new-media challenge for journalists, I suspect, will be a diametrically different area, covered by Carla King on MediaShift last Friday: E-books and self-publishing. For print journalists, the ultra-short-form concept of publishing tiny bursts of copy over the course of a day was completely alien. So what’s stopping you?

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The Loneliness of the Digital Content Creator: Validating Your Work

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I’ve hit the “publish” button thinking to myself, “this could well be my best Blog post to date,” only to find out a short while later that nobody cared. The post wasn’t picked up, tweeted about on Twitter, shared, liked on Facebook and only generated a few (if any) comments. The Naked Blogger.

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The Loneliness of the Digital Content Creator: Validating Your Work

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I’ve hit the “publish” button thinking to myself, “this could well be my best Blog post to date,” only to find out a short while later that nobody cared. The post wasn’t picked up, tweeted about on Twitter, shared, liked on Facebook and only generated a few (if any) comments. The Naked Blogger.

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Managing Your Career in the Social Media Era: Sources

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No longer is the media world one of a publishers-top editor-section editor-subeditor-journalist hierarchy. As recently as December, most of my income derived from traditional publishers practicing traditional B2B journalism (although mostly on the Web, rather than print.) What Would Google Do? That is no longer true.”. Crush It! ,