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Poster power in the 21C
Author Stew Friedman had to drum up an audience at Google HQ. Did he Twitter? A Facebook event, perhaps? Gmail? Nope. So, in this definitively 21st century work environment, how do you grab employees’ attention to entice them to attend a one-hour session with an author talking about his new book? This was the challenge…
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“Warming up” Gordon Brown
Gordon Brown is struggling in the presentational department. On 1 May, BBC 5 Live‘s Nicky Campbell told him right out about “that lack of human connection that you have.” (listen from 1:39) [Non-UK readers – imagine your political chief taking this verbal slapdown?] So how can Gordon get that “human connection”? Perhaps by taking a…
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News channel showdown: BBC News vs. Sky News
I have been meaning to post for a while on the impact of Freeview on Sky News viewing. Freeview launched in November 2002, offering a set-top box for viewers who didn’t want Sky.
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Is there anything special about online newspapers?
Ryan Sholin – host of this month’s Carnival of Journalism – has a question: “What are we supposed to tell our newsrooms when they tell us they don’t have time to do anything special for the Web?” What does special on the web look like?