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Why Murdoch won’t politicize the Journal…

Greg Schneiders, a founding partner at the Prime Group, emailed in the following guest post. – Todd

Among the many, many reasons for the less-than-effective response of traditional media to the new challenges and competition they face, one of the most annoying is their inability to peel their eyes away from their collective navel....

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More BBC Journos Report With Social Media Tools

Ben Hammersley's coverage of the recent elections in Turkey isn't the only time that BBC News is using social media to report a story. 

Currently, José Baig and Carlos Ceresole are traveling across the southern USA without uttering a word in English.  ¿Hablas español? is their project to see what's it like to use only Spanish in the country. ...

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The Life Cycle of Social Media Hype

I’ve been reading with fascination a series of articles that have appeared lately that question the value of maintaining a presence in Second Life. To make a long story short, a year or so ago, when the Second Life hype was deafening, companies appeared in mass to construct their own virtual presences as a way to market their products....

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Basic SEO: Site Visitors Know Best

While I am no search engine optimization guru, I know enough to see many SEO goofs that outsiders and neophytes make.  One of these mistakes is dismissing the importance of site visitor feedback and web analytics.

If you want to drive traffic to a site, pay attention to those who already visit it. ...

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Gannett Rolling Out New Design for Local News Sites

A friend of mine works for Gannett, which owns USA Today and heaps of local newspapers and TV stations throughout the country. Well, most of the local sites are horrible at the very least. However, the company is in the process of rolling out new designs across their network.

The Desert Sun site from Palm Springs,...

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