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Three Ways to Make Media More Personal

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world was personalization. On the industry portal site I ran for much of that time, we had what seems now like a pretty lame concept of personalization. We wanted to let our registered users select their interests from a predetermined set of categories, then present a customized home page when they logged in.

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Advice to the Re-Employed: Think Freelance

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You’ve put a decent freelance or consulting career together, gotten hip to the value of personal branding, and learned or relearned the enormous value of autonomy in your work life. Tags: Personal Branding freelancing personal branding. Now, though, you’ve had a tempting job offer you’d be crazy not to take, so you do.

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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. Personal vs. Corporate: Six New-Media Principles, No. 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. Six New-Media Principles: Introduction.

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Managing Your Career in the Social Media Era: Sources

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I’ve included key quotes from most of the sources below in the hopes that even if you haven’t heard my presentation, you’ll be interested in exploring the originals on your own. I cited Guillebeau’s personal manifesto as an example of one kind of e-book B2B editors could aspire to. Book Notes: An Interview with Seth Godin. (On

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Collaboration vs. Control: Six New-Media Principles, No. 2

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Ironically, he made this statement in a presentation he was giving for free.). In keeping with the nature of online media, they tend to be decidedly unprofessional: incomplete, unpolished, and personal—in other words, conversational. Tomorrow: The personal vs. the corporate. Behind this perspective is a bias to professionalism.

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Nine Keys to a Robust Editorial Career in Social Media

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As part of my presentation in their most recent event, held last month, I identified the following nine tactics B2B journalists can use to take control of their careers in the new-media era. Your background may be in print, but you must stop thinking of yourself as a print person. Be media neutral. Be a brand. Be uniquely essential.

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Your Content May Be a Commodity, But You’re Not

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But as Scheier goes on to say, the algorithmic approach leaves a lot of potential value unfulfilled: “It cannot check those facts for accuracy, put them in context, present them in an insightful or delightful way, or learn from them over time to deliver thought leadership.”

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