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When the Highest-Paid State Official Tossed Transparency

Jun. 3, 2009

“You have no right to record a meeting,” said Massachusetts pension fund chief Michael Travaglini to a reporter at the conclusion of yesterday’s Pension Reserves Investment Management Board meeting.
I wish I was making this up.
The PRIM Board is responsible for managing the Pension Reserves Investment Trust fund, with a mission to maximize ROI through investment [...]

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How Newspaper Mission Statements Could Change

May. 26, 2009

The Dallas Morning News celebrated its 21st birthday in 1906 and general manager George Bannerman Dealey, according to the newspaper’s history, spoke the words that guide the management and operation of The Dallas Morning News to this day. Referring to the founders of the newspaper, he said:
They built The News upon the rock of truth [...]

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How to Simply Explain Twitter

Mar. 20, 2009

“It is part text messaging and part blogging, with the ability to update on your cellphone or computer, but constrained to 140 characters,” I told my barber today when she asked me to define Twitter.
Why be confusing with verbiose descriptions, I figure. Be like this boat: keep your definition to the primary motivations of what [...]

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How BlogBurst Increases Your Blog Readership

Mar. 1, 2009

If you write a blog and are not part of the BlogBurst network, what are you waiting for? Don’t you want your next blog post picked up by Reuters, Ziff Davis, the Chicago Sun Times, and other well-known mainstream media outlets?
A service of Pluck, I joined BlogBurst nine months ago and I’ve noticed anywhere between [...]

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Why is Social Media About Media?

Feb. 10, 2009

I’m as guilty as anyone else–after all, my blog is subtitled strategies and tips on social media and online marketing–but why the focus on media?
Social networking makes sense, typically alluding to online versions of the community center bulletin board, printed restaurant review guides, telephone “party” lines, suggestion boxes, and assorted customer service modules.
While its Wikipedia [...]

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Thomas Jefferson on Newspaper Delivery

Feb. 4, 2009

The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers, stated Thomas Jefferson.
What would Jefferson think of social media?
Might his words be stemmed in part from the competitive fight for journalistic integrity and the battle over print and digital media?
You only need to read Mitch Joel’s perspective [...]

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Why Old Media Can’t Deny New Media

Jan. 15, 2009

About seven hours ago, a U.S. Airways jet was allegedly attacked by a “double bird strike” and the pilot forcibly water ditched in New York’s Hudson River.
You know that already, right? Maybe you heard it on the evening news or read it on CNN or the BBC. I’m sure every morning newspaper will have a [...]

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