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Three Ways to Turbocharge Your New-Media Career

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MUD day 9: For anyone involved in communications, coming to accept new media is only half the battle. The next, much harder fight, is in leaping into and mastering the ways of new media. Robinson is pointing out here something that isn’t often emphasized: It takes courage to adopt new-media tools. Be Arbitrary.

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Social Media and the Decline of Editing

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From the old-media viewpoint, this just doesn’t seem right. In response, Lail gives the new-media comeback: “I don’t view comments as ‘letters to the editor.’ They are, I think, a participatory experience unique to the online medium and whose benefits outweigh its negatives. Comments, anyone?

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Digital First, Not Foremost

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The point of the phrase is not about which medium is better. It’s about which medium people use. And that medium is sometimes print, sometimes web, sometimes social, sometimes mobile, sometimes video, sometimes audio. Digital-first is about distributing content through all those media in the most efficient way possible.

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Digital First, Not Foremost

B2B Memes

The point of the phrase is not about which medium is better. It’s about which medium people use. And that medium is sometimes print, sometimes web, sometimes social, sometimes mobile, sometimes video, sometimes audio. Digital-first is about distributing content through all those media in the most efficient way possible.

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Digital Drudgery and Second-Stage Shovelware

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In a post earlier this month, I raised the sensitive question of whether legacy print journalists might be unduly worried about the workload involved in social media. He argues that the criticisms being slung at The Guardian ’s liveblog coverage of the Christchurch earthquake are based in a confusion of print and digital media.

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A Look Inside a B2B Editor’s Head

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Finding the proper level of involvement with marketing (particularly in sponsored webinars, a medium uniquely popular in trade publishing). Understanding the proper relationship between professional and personal use of social media. Social Media and Ethics: An Interview with B2B Editor Maureen Alley.

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The Best Formats Are Invisible

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When new-media thinkers talk about transparency, they’re usually thinking about ethics. The point of new media is immediacy, direct connection, and that works best when the format recedes into the background of your attention and becomes virtually invisible. We need to think of it in terms of expression and formats as well.