Marketing and grassroots activity on social media sites like Facebook is a burgeoning field. More and more people are recognizing the power and the variety of ways an organization can harness or benefit (or suffer, for that matter) from social media action.
The news today provides an example about why this trend is important. ...
Continue ReadingAs a follow up to our most recent newspaper study and last year's examination of magazines, our team has finished some research evaluating America's top 50 commercial magazines (according to circulation) based on the presence or lack of certain web features. The purpose of this research was to determine how American magazines are using the Web,...
Continue ReadingYesterday I attended the Modern Media Strategies Workshop at The Heritage Foundation. There were many panels during the conference about how those in the political sphere can harness new and social media.
While blogging was one of many topics, many people from political organizations and congressional staffers asked the speakers about how one can find prominent blogs. ...
Continue ReadingBy now everyone on the planet has heard of Nicholas Negroponte’s One Laptop Per Child Project (OLPC), which aims to “provide children around the world with new opportunities to explore, experiment and express themselves” by providing children in developing countries worldwide with a laptop. This ambitious venture has produced an inexpensive and extremely durable machine which will be sold to governments around the world and distributed to impoverished children....
Continue ReadingWe received some fantastic feedback in regards to my post last week about our picks for the best US newspaper websites. I'd like to take a moment here and point out some other great websites that our readers brought to our attention.
A few readers questioned why our list only referred to US papers....
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