tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-115954232024-07-08T10:52:56.024+03:00Putting the new wine into new wineskins: facts and trends in hi-tech & communications, publishing & mass media which help to fulfill the Great CommissionAlex Yefetovhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02443045240832467266noreply@blogger.comBlogger75125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11595423.post-8224244996555856862010-05-04T11:20:00.005+03:002010-05-04T12:03:09.914+03:00

FOLIO: article about the situation in b2b media. Here're some excerpts:Beyond the problems of being overleveraged and in debt, many of the larger publishers are based on obsolete operating structures. As traditional print vehicles are replaced by multimedia and strategic services, the economies of the current structures no longer work.“It seems to be that the economics of building a large

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“Link journalism,” a term coined by Scott Karp, formerly director of digital strategy at Atlantic Media and founder of journalist social network Publish2, refers to sharing and picking up links from other media outlets and bloggers in order to fully cover the story.It’s the antithesis of the traditional media approach, in which a media outlet was expected to offer its own version of a story (even

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According to the new Pew Forum survey (the results were released Dec 09, 2009):One-third of Americans (35%) say they regularly (9%) or occasionally (26%) attend religious services at more than one place, and most of these (24% of the public overall) indicate that they sometimes attend religious services of a faith different from their own.Among those who attend religious services at least once a

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Gartner published its (27) emerging technologies, highlights and predictions report. According to this report Green IT, Cloud computing, Social computing, Video telepresence, will reach, as you can see, the plateau of Hype within the next two to five years. Here are the Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies, 2008Jackie Fenn discusses Gartner's Hype Cycles for 2008 with Gartner Research VP Jeff

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The PEW Research Center for the People & the Press released its biennial news consumption survey. Overall, news is loosing some importance and traditional newspaper have not managed to attract as many reader online as they are loosing in print ...Where do people (US) get their newsSource (plus additional findings): PEW Full report (129 pages, PDF)Thanks to http://hemartin.blogspot.com/ for

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Who else can we learn from, except others? Here is a remarkable range of galleries in a range of categories: light on dark, horizontal scrolling, best blog design, best Wordpress design, liquid CSS design, and much more:http://www.mostinspired.com/blog/WP Cubehttp://wpcube.comA showcase of the best designed Wordpress sites.Online since December 2007, with approximately 300 items of inspiration.We

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By Allison Perlman, Penn State University:Founded by Dallas Theological Seminary student and former CBS television producer Chris Wyatt, Christian website Godtube combines user-generated video, live webcasts (many of church services and ministries), and social networking opportunities. Godtube is a for-profit enterprise, earning revenue by accepting secular and religious advertising spots,

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Top technology executives at the World Economic Forum in Davos on Friday said mobile Internet will eventually let advertisers tailor messages based on a user's location.Here are some quotations from the panel discussion they held:"In theory location-based advertising will be a very good business and useful to the end user," said Google CEO Eric Schmidt (picture).Moderator David Kirkpatrick noted

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According to the MarketingCharts report, Cadbury’s gorilla drummer ad, with more than 5 million views for the original video on YouTube, was the top viral-video ad, followed by Smirnoff’s Green Tea Partay, with 3.4mm views, according to agency GoViral, reports the Financial Times. The top 5 viral-video ads:Cadbury - Gorilla Drummer, launched online in August; agency: Fallon. Smirnoff - Green Tea

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eMarketer has issued predictions for 2008 in key online areas, including those related advertising, videos, social networks, e-commerce and entertainment, saying online advertising will ride out potential economic storms in the US - and YouTube will decide political elections. The 10 predictions for 2008 according to eMarketer:Online ads remain resilient. Video surge slows. Social-network

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Regardless of what your website is designed to do, there are a few primary objectives you should keep in mind before you start building: http://www.sitepronews.com/archives/2007/oct/5.htmlThey actually are: Focus, Depth and Stickyness of your site. These are to think about all the time. Short but very helpful article.

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An impressive list with more than 250 entries with short descriptions - a compilation by Tamar Weinberg (techipedia) ... this should keep you busy for many weeks to come.Tremendous work. Thanks you so much, Tamar!

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A guy who teaches basic journalism skills to citizens in community education classes in Minneapolis learned a lot himself out of these classes (see Doug's Report webpage)Here are the main lessons he's learned from his students, so far:1. Citizens are an untapped source of expertise and positive civic energy that journalists can help unlock.2. There is no substitute for a strong, independent,

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David Renards (mediaIDEAS) definition:A magazine is a very distinct unit which has the following six key properties regardless of the delivery medium used:1. Metered: a magazine is divided into defined "pages" of content that are presented together; in print this is not only bound sheets of paper but also, as has become more prevalent with the stylepress, pamphlets, lithographs or other objects;

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Ross Mayfield, CEO of the corporate wiki company SocialText, has a deeply insightful post on how web and open source technologies create more choice inside companies, and how that leads to better decisions. This is the best sentence in the piece, and you could build a PhD on quantifying and understanding the implications in it:I often think of institutions as making the transition from Marxist

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Here is the short but good quick explanation of the Long Tale concept. Presented originally here by the author of idea Chris Anderson, editor-in-chief of Wired Magazine.The theory of the Long Tail is that our culture and economy is increasingly shifting away from a focus on a relatively small number of "hits" (mainstream products and markets) at the head of the demand curve and toward a huge

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As Chris Anderson writes in his blog devoted to The Long Tale effect (and to the book promoted thereby :-) )Right now the world is focused on stand-alone social networking sites, especially Facebook and MySpace, and the fad of the moment is to take brands and services there, as companies build Facebook apps and MySpace pages in a bid to follow the audience wherever they happen to be. But at the

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According to the official site of the event, the BlogCampCIS & Baltics 2007 will be probably the first BarCamp in the post-SUterritory. Evgeny Morozov (Director of New Media at TOL.org) initiated the project and is organizing the event with people from Baltics, Russia, Ukraine and Belarus.They expect about 300 bloggers and Social Media people to gather onOctober 12-14 in Kyiv (Kiev, Ukraine)

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Mobile networks will provide coverage to 90% of the world's population by 2010, compared with 80% today, despite the misplaced policies of many governments, who continue to subsidize the rollout of fixed-networks, according to a study commissioned by the GSM Association, the global trade association for mobile operators. Despite what the GSM survey claims is close to 80 percent coverage currently

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A useful website that has a lot of online converters for images, programming languages etc.http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2007/04/10/online-converters/Posted on IECGlogalForum by John Edmiston.

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Here's a question: why churches 'just don't get it' - i.e. web evangelism.Here is an interesting opinion on this regard. Since it has been taken from the closed forum, I am purposly ommitting the author's name.I don't think the average church in the West is interested in reaching the lost, period. They are more interested in maintaining the institution.The average Western church is said to spend

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Just would like to add my lepta to make IE Day better known among those who might be interested. Here's some publicity: http://ied.gospelcom.net/publicity.php

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The Friday, Mar 16 Time article "Looking for God Online" caused lately much of debates in IECG Community.The article indeed makes some serious claims, for instance:Despite the fact that religion is always in the news, visits to religious websites in the U.S. are declining rapidly. They dropped over 30% within the last year, down 35% the last two years, while visits to online entertainment, in the

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A very good insight on the subject from the member of IECGlobalForum:God has made us incredibly adaptable at using any means we can to connect with other people whether that is face-to-face contact, MySpace, or even smoke signals. The ministry happens when people connect in healthy relationship and the specific mechanism that enables that connection is secondary. Each mechanism has pros and cons

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Paul Steinbrueck from OurChurch.Com reports on IECG forum that last week LifeChurch.tv launched a church in the virtual world of Second Life. They are not the first church in SL, but they are already having an impact as people from all over the world who wouldn't step foot in a real church are visiting their virtual church.http://swerve.lifechurch.tv/2007/03/12/

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