All Posts Tagged With: "new media"

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The Dark Side of Free

Back in the old-days of the Internet, free was a very bad thing.  It attracted the wrong crowd.  So you never gave anything away for free…even a simple article.  You charged for everything.
These days, that’s not the case.  Especially with new media, where the entire point is to freely give people your content, tips and [...]

June 8th, 2009 | Dave | 6 comments | Continued
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Earn $10,000 a Month To Tweet About Wine

My how the Internet has evolved.
First it was dial-up on Compuserve and AOL.  Now it’s broadband.  First it was email.  Now it’s Facebook, video and Twitter.
Speaking of Twitter, there’s a winery in California that wants to pay someone $10,000 a month to tweet about wine.  They call it the “Really Goode Job” (they put the [...]

June 5th, 2009 | Dave | 0 comments | Continued
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New Media Marketing: It’s About Street Smarts, Not Book Smarts

About 3 weeks ago I did a post about TV pitchman Bill Mays and how the corporate world (think Madison Avenue) is now starting to incorporate direct response principles into their advertising campaigns.
Ever since I made that post, about 26% of the traffic coming to this blog was generated by “Billy Mays” related searches.  And [...]

April 27th, 2009 | Dave | 0 comments | Continued
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Who Were The New Media Guru’s Behind Obama’s Election?

I can remember a former U.S. President, back when he was the active President, commenting in amazement about how supermarkets use scanners at the checkout line (a practice that had been in use for over a decade at the time).
Today there is a U.S. President who does weekly video addresses via YouTube.  Times have changed.
And [...]

February 20th, 2009 | Dave | 0 comments | Continued
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Elections, New Media and Free Stuff

Yesterday in the United States a new president was elected.  It was a landslide victory.  Record voter turnout.   History was made.
Mentioned, but largely glossed over by the media, was how effective Barack Obama was in using the Internet during the election, particularly new media.
In two years, he went from an afterthought to a front-runner…raising more money [...]

November 5th, 2008 | Dave | 0 comments | Continued
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Follow One Woman As She Launches a New Business

This post is a bit personal in nature, as it involves my niece, Megan.
You see Megan is about to embark for training to become a pastry chef.  She’ll be attending one of the top schools in the world, the French Pastry School in Chicago.  After graduating, Megan plans to start her own pastry business.
Well actually, she [...]

October 22nd, 2008 | Dave | 1 comment | Continued
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TubeMogul Now Hooking Up Video Content Producers with Advertisers

Tubemogul is the leading free service on the Internet for video distribution.  You upload your video once to Tubemogal…and they distribute it to all the major video sharing sites for you.  It’s a huge time-saver.
A few weeks ago, Tubemogul quietly introduced a service where they list the top video content producers…and where potential advertisers can [...]

September 12th, 2008 | Dave | 1 comment | Continued
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Video Interview – One-On-One with Cali Lewis of GeekBrief.TV

Earlier this week, I had the chance to talk with one of the “good people” on the Internet (and a web video pioneer), Cali Lewis of GeekBrief.TV.
About 2 years ago, Cali and her husband Neal decided to start a video podcast covering technology news.  The problem was, they had zero experience with web video and [...]

September 5th, 2008 | Dave | 5 comments | Continued