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Surprised by the very low figures in this article for number of enterprise blogs, also disappointed that businesses still don’t understand what blogs are all about: ‘the majority of blogs read like “tired, warmed-over press releases.”‘ *sigh*
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Suw: Amongst men, entreprenuers have more testosterone than non-entrepreneurs. Wonder if hormones in female entrepreneurs are also different from non-entrepreneurs
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Suw: Women who read about other women who are successful rate themselves more positively than women who read about men, or read nothing at all. Men don’t show a difference. This illustrates the importance of role models for women
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Suw: Gender stereotypes distort our memories of past achievement: women reminded of the stereotype that men do better at maths subsequently underestimated their own ability in maths; men did the same when talking about the arts
Author Archives: Kevin Anderson
links for 2008-07-15
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Kevin: NPR is pulling the plug on the Bryant Park Project. It was an experiment to lure young audiences to NPR, and Leonard Witt thought it was too soon to pull the plug on a promising experiment.
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Kevin: National Public Radio officials are expected to tell the staff members of “Bryant Park Project” that their experimental weekday morning program is being canceled.
Imagining the future of newspapers, but only every other week
The Newspaper Association of America’s Imagining the Future of Newspapers blog is indicative of too many mainstream media blogs, and sadly, I’m with Jeff that it’s hardly surprising. When I first started off in online journalism, one of the hardest habits to break was the idea that I had only one deadline a day. It was dictated by the press run. The internet, in general, and blogs in particular also have only one deadline: Now.
There is a vibrant, global, living conversation about the future of newspapers online with a lot of voices, but this blog not only neglects most of those voices (They do have a link to a Newsbytes piece by Shawn Smith from my former employer Mlive.com.), but unfortunately, if you read this blog, you’d get the feeling that the conversation only happens a couple of times a month.
Unwittingly, they highlight one of the biggest problems with many mainstream media blogs: Frequency. Blogs and internet media in general operate at a speed that outpaces traditional media. Most in traditional media still seem stuck in a quaint yesteryear when life progressed at a much more sedate pace, publishing only occasionally. They sneer at broadcasters, bloggers and wire reporters as slaves to sensationalism and the rolling deadline.
Certainly, speed is a cruel task master, but speed does not automatically mean sensationalism. Pace can be an editorial tool, with rapid fire posts during times of fast, key developments punctuated by longer, more thoughtful posts. Indeed, why not have a blog with two writers, a speed demon keeping on top of rolling developments and another blogging journalist freed to consider and present a broader view and context?
I guess at the pace of Imagining the Future blog that they will finally reach the future of newspapers sometime in April 2040.
links for 2008-07-12
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Kevin: Rachel Happe has a very thoughtful post cautioning people not to conflate the terms “social media” and community. I think that social interaction around media or media as a social object. One of the reasons that social media hasn’t built much commu
links for 2008-07-11
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Kevin: We’ve put together a 5-step plan for kickstarting your business’s social media participation.
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Suw: Do women in tech suffer from stereotype threat? Telling women that a test reveals gender differences causes them to perform worse due to stress and anxiety, compared to the same test without the stereotype threat.
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Kevin: Guardian News & Media (my employers) have acquired paidContent as part of its US expansion.
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Suw: How do you foster the adoption of social tools in business? How do you role out software which is essentially optional to hundreds, thousands or tens of thousands of people? Find out how in my seminar on 10 Sept 08.
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Suw: Email has become a bit of a problem in business – there’s too much of it, and most of it’s rubbish. But how do you get people to send fewer emails? In this seminar, I’ll take a look at how social tools can help.
links for 2008-07-10
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Suw: Best rant about mobile I’ve read in ages. Kev had the misfortune to get cornered by a delusional mobile entrepreneur the other day. She should read this.
links for 2008-07-08
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Suw: Fascinating piece about how tools like Xobni can help us discover our emailing habits, and how that can help us use email better.
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Suw: “Occasionally my little tours of the web seem to develop a narrative thread all on their own. This is one of those days.” A post of links to follow
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Suw: I do rather struggle with the visualisation of the future, and get frustrated with calendar software that only shows me a month at a time, 1st – 31st.
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Suw: Has management become a dirty word? In some places, yes, I thnk it has. Should it be a dirty word? Well, frankly, that would be daft.
links for 2008-07-07
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Mark Potts highlights the blog of Bob Lefsetz and says: “Trying something different, even if it seems nutty, is far preferable to stubbornly going down with the ship.”
Talking social media with Peter Shankman
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Michael O’Connor Clarke, a long-time friend of Suw who I only recently had the pleasure of meeting, provided a virtual introduction to Peter Shankman. Peter was on a whirlwind trip to London and wanted to meet some people to talk about social media. Peter wants to help PR and journalists have a better working relationship in the age of blogging, vlogging, Twittering and social networks.
We walked down the road from The Guardian to St Paul’s Cathedral, and Peter pulled out his Flip video camera. He asked me about where to get some lunch, the differences between social media in the US and Europe (and lots of differences between European countries) and cats. Well, the conversation veered off onto cats largely because of Suw’s (I have only written one post) side project, Kits and Mortar. I think Suw and I should start keeping a blog list of most irrelevant PR pitches we get by way of Kits and Mortar.
And as I mention in the chat with Peter, ‘social media press releases’ need to be more than a normal press release done with an old school mail merge from a list of bloggers. Social media is personal media, and if you spend just a few seconds finding a post that somehow relates to your product, you’re going to be more successful. Peter also caught up with video blogging David Brain, CEO of Edelman Europe so he got both the journalist’s view and a PR view during his visit to London.
I had a fun time chatting with Peter. But hey man, you said I wascorn fed? Just checked on that definition: “large and often muscular, but lacking in intelligence, refinement or sophistication”. Am I really that muscular?
Technorati Tags: social media
links for 2008-07-05
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Jeff Jarvis flags up that Tom Loosemore and blogging MP Tom Watson have launched a £20,000 prize to mashup previously ‘invisible’ public data. Good ideas already.
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Tell us what you’d build with public information and we could help fund your idea! The lastest ideas in the UK-based public mashup contest.
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Paul Bradshaw says of Showusabetterway.com: “If you think FOI requests have transformed journalism in recent years, and the battle to retain those, think about this: if we don’t make the most of this opportunity, we’ll have no excuse when the governme
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Barack Obama’s campaign is considering moving his nomination acceptance speech at the Democratic Convention from the Pepsi Center to Mile High Stadium. Source: Denver Post
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Roy Greenslade on Trini-Mirror cuts: “The main victim of this move will by the Daily Mirror itself, a flagship that is not only losing its flagpole but its main mast.”