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Nokia USA: How to turn talk into action

April 24, 2008 – 10:53 am

Brymo, via Flickr (CC license)

Talk is a good start, and it need not be cheap, but by itself it generally doesn’t get much done.

Earlier today Nokia’s Charlie Schick posted a thoughtful comment about how Nokia and its current and would-be customers might, through talking openly together, improve the situation in the high-end US phone market. [...]

By Amy Gahran | Also posted in Conversations, PR & marketing, Strategy, accountability, conversational media, credibility, journalism, mobile, problems, services, telephony, transparency | Comments (2)

New J-Skills: What to Measure?

April 10, 2008 – 10:02 am

Berbercarpet, via Flickr (CC license)

Journalism sudents need the right tools — and skills — for the kinds of careers and opportunities they’re really going to be making for themselves.

Picking up on my post yesterday, Univ. of Florida journalism professor Mindy McAdams challenged me (and her other readers) to translate my quick list of what j-schools [...]

By Amy Gahran | Also posted in Content Style & Business, General, Labels and Metadata, PR & marketing, Resources, Strategy, Wikis, blogs, business, careers, collaboration, community, content management, contributed content, conversational media, creativity, credibility, critical thinking, culture, education, experience, forums, innovation, journalism, media evolution, mindset, mobile, networking, news, processes, projects, research, search, services, skills, social media, traffic, transparency, world | Comments (15)

Get my favorite news headline podcasts via MediaFly

January 24, 2008 – 2:22 pm

My Mediafly profile currently contains these news headline podcasts.

Yesterday I offered some tips about making news podcasts smart. Today, Contentious reader Carson commented, “You should create a public profile on Mediafly.com to allow people easy access to those feeds. Or, take their public RSS aggregated feed and put it on your blog, then people just [...]

By Amy Gahran | Also posted in Feeds (RSS), journalism, news, podcasts | Comments (4)

Lijit search: Good start as a “me collector”

November 11, 2007 – 2:01 pm

Lijit as a “me collector” — see it in action in my sidebar.

Yesterday I finally got around to implementing the Lijit search widget on this blog. I didn’t realize until I started playing around with the widget settings that this cool little tool actually goes a long way toward being the kind of “me collector” [...]

By Amy Gahran | Also posted in blogs, productivity, search, services, social media | Comments (3)

The “W list” is great, except it’s a link farm

August 27, 2007 – 9:31 am

Holly’s Corner

Many blogs, like this one, have posted the full W-list with links. Is that really a good thing?

Lately there’s been a meme going around called the “W list” — a lengthy list of links to high-quality blogs published by women.
As far as I’ve traced it back, the kernel of this movement began with [...]

By Amy Gahran | Also posted in Wikis, blogs, gender, problems, women | Comments (4)

Teaching Online Skills: Journalism Prof Wants Ideas

August 23, 2007 – 12:41 pm

ej.msu.edu

MSU prof Dave Poulson wants to lead his students into the murky waters of online media.

(NOTE: I’m cross-posting this from Poynter’s E-Media Tidbits, since I thought Contentious readers might find it interesting as well.)
Today I received an intriguing query from my colleague Dave Poulson, associate director of the Knight Center for Environmental Journalism at Michigan [...]

By Amy Gahran | Also posted in Conversations, Feeds (RSS), Wikis, blogs, conversational media, culture, education, journalism, media literacy, skills, tips, tools, writing | Comments (1)

It’s Not About Your Site Anymore

August 21, 2007 – 8:54 am

Amy Gahran

In your own home, you get to put the couch where YOU want it. Who cares if that’s not the living room?

Here’s another reason why learning to use a feed reader is a cornerstone skill for truly succeeding in online media today:
It’s not about your site anymore.In fact, it hasn’t been for at [...]

By Amy Gahran | Also posted in Arranging Ideas, Feeds (RSS), Strategy, business, culture, skills | Comments (6)