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'Diffusion of Knowledge and Understanding' in a Digital Age

Mon, 13 Jun 2011 19:30:00 GMT

Some quick thoughts on The Economist's article comparing the societal impact of IBM and the Carnegie Corporation of New York.

A Digital-First Dissemination Model

Tue, 15 Mar 2011 19:50:00 GMT

Data Gatherers themselves should use digital-native techniques in the first telling of the stories in their data. In addition to injecting subject matter expertise into the online discussion of complex issues, it will create the welcome byproduct of better, cleaner data to support subsequent interactive development.

Dear Digital Journalists, Take Me To Your Leaders. Love, Non-Journalists

Sun, 27 Feb 2010 15:20:00 GMT

A February 26 New York Times interactive package on natural gas wells provides a fresh example of the emerging information forms that are unique to digital media. This post offers an overview of the package and argues that more non-journalism organizations should emulate this innovative approach in their dissemination strategies.

Slide Video: The Changing Digital Information Landscape

Fri, 5 Nov 2010 19:30:19 GMT

This presentation was given to a set of foundation communication professionals, academics and policy research executives on October 22, 2010. It lays out the case for a Center for Digital Information to assist policy organizations in using new media to better communicate their original information and data on issues of public importance. It followed a presentation by Lee Rainie of the Pew Research Center's Internet and American Life Project.

A Roadmap to Modern Digital Communication

Tue, 28 Sep 2010 16:11:17 GMT

This draft roadmap contrasts a digital distribution model of communication that dominates many public policy organizations' activities with a modern digital information playbook -- interactive, mobile and unmediated.

Digital Innovation Needed Wherever Information is Produced, Not Just Newsrooms

Mon, 13 Sep 2010 17:50:00 GMT

New skill development, capacity building, innovation and creativity in digital rendering are needed wherever information is created, not just in newsrooms, and particularly within organizations that are increasingly direct information providers on issues of vital public importance.

Data Are Not Information

Mon, 2 Aug 2010 18:00:00 GMT

Data and information are not synonyms. Data only have the potential to inform. They are half the equation. It is communication that transforms data into information, and in a digital age the communication landscape has been fundamentally altered. This requires using new mechanisms born natively in interactive media to effectively turn data into meaningful information.

Communications Network Interview: The Next Evolution? Information Made Only for the Web

Mon, 26 Jul 2010 18:00:00 GMT

CDI spoke with the Communications Network about how over the past 15 years, we have spent a great deal of time thinking about how to disseminate content, but now it is time to fundamentally rethink the nature of that content -- considering forms that weren't possible before the advent of the Internet.

A Response to David Brooks Column on Books-vs.-Internet

Fri, 9 Jul 2010 18:00:00 GMT

Jeff Stanger responds to New York Times columnist David Brooks's column on books-vs.-Internet. In order for important information to remain prestigious, it must adopt a new interactive language, not simply clone itself as PDF versions of static documents.

The Path to a Center for Digital Information

Mon, 21 Jun 2010 16:00:00 GMT

Center for Digital Information director Jeff Stanger describes the path leading to the founding of CDI and how research organizations must transition from using new media merely to distribute old forms to using new media to inform through interactivity.