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CSS 201 presentation
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“People who make websites” survey time again
Once again, talk about your web work.
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Newsprint smudges and the nonprofit model
I was stopped on my walk home today by a gentleman who thought I looked like a person who reads newspapers. We had a friendly conversation: Him: Do you get the Washington Post at home? Me: No, I read it … Continue reading
Posted in Business models, Marketing, Nonprofit, Publishing
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Why you can’t test-drive a refrigerator anymore
We have car dealerships, because you want to try driving a car before you buy it. We have mattress superstores, so you can lie on the bed before sleeping on it for the next five years. But apparently we’re killing … Continue reading
Posted in Business models, Design, Marketing
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Social media confidence is about hiring
So many executives are scared of stepping into social media – they’ll lose control of their company’s image, they need to route all comments through Legal, they’ll see a giant drop in productivity if they stop blocking Facebook on the … Continue reading
Posted in Management, Social Media
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The Ten Best Ideas from BlogPotomac
My recap from BlogPotomac is now up on the company blog. The short version: Shel Holtz: I don’t know how you establish a long-term community around a movie. Shireen Mitchell: Watching on TV is different from being there in person, … Continue reading
Posted in Conference, Marketing, Social Media
Tagged ambercadabra, blogpotomac, digitalsista, dougmeacham, geoffliving, lizstrauss, scottmonty, shashib, shel, Social Media
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Slash versus backslash: does precision matter?
This is a slash: / This is a backslash: \ So it bugs me when people say xyz.com/whatever as “xyz dot com backslash whatever.” I know where it comes from: Windows directories really are separated by backslashes. It’s hard to … Continue reading
Politics Online Conference writeups
I was lucky enough this year to be able to attend parts of the Politics Online Conference, run by the Institute for Politics, Democracy, and the Internet at George Washington University. It was a great event, with interesting topics/speakers and … Continue reading
News and not-news
In these days of news organizations slowly and quickly and very quickly falling apart, I’m starting to catalogue types of reporting that really should be done by citizen media instead. Josh Korr at Publishing 2.0 thinks of scrapbook news; I’m … Continue reading
And what I learned on the Japan/China trip, from Slideshare
What I Learned on My Fall Vacation View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: japan china)
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