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Full story: FIR Interview: Gary Kebbel, Journalism Program Director, Knight Foundation
Gary Kebbel has an enviable job: Giving away $25 million over five years to people who enter the Knight News Challenge, designed to surface new ideas for the production and distribution of news. In this FIR Interview with Shel Holtz, Gary looks at some previous grant winners and touches on the importance to communicators of identifying new news methodologies. Get this podcast: Download the MP3 file (7.25Mb, 17:58) Get the show on iTunes Subscribe to the FIR Interviews RSS feed…
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Full story: Ipadio live audio at book launch
This week has been rather an intense one so far, keeping me at the keyboard most of the time, so I’m quite disappointed that I can’t get into central London today for the launch of International Communications Strategy: Developments in Cross-Cultural Communications, PR and Social Media, a new book by Silvia Cambié and Yang-May Ooi, that has its official premier today. I had the great pleasure of interviewing Silvia and Yang-May for an FIR Interview podcast in July. Listen to…
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Full story: Speaking up in September
I’ve just updated the list of events I’m participating in during the rest of this year, mostly as a speaker. There were more than I thought! Here FYI is what I’m involved with on the immediate horizon, during September: Social Media – Taking customer service to the next level. [Speaking] London, September 15, 2009. The event title says it all. Organized by The National Outsourcing Association. 2nd Annual Digital Media Seminar “Effective Strategies in Marketing & Communications†Barcelona 2009. [Speaking]…
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Full story: RSS, Twitter and lifestreaming: Is there an engagement somewhere?
Quite a bit of buzz today over the news from Matt Mullenweg that WordPress.com supports RSS Cloud, a new development in the evolution of RSS. Created by Dave Winer, RSS Cloud basically involves the push-notification to subscribers of your RSS feed that there’s new content available. Dave Winer’s diagram shows the concept very clearly, and he’s written an easy-to-understand RSS Cloud walkthrough. The key word here is ‘push.’ Unlike standard RSS which polls your subscriptions on a timed schedule –…











