Media in the New Millennium

Observations on social media — and the occasional rant — from Metzger Associates' New Media Practice Group

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Great Time on the OS Perspectives Podcast

March 28th, 2011 · No Comments

posted by Doyle

Had a great time doing the OS Perspectives podcast with Esbjorn Larsen this week. We had a great discussion on the latest from both Microsoft and Apple. Check it out here.

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Tags: Digital Content · Tech Business · Web/Tech

Wow, Zinio… Color Me Impressed

March 12th, 2011 · No Comments

posted by Doyle

I have subscribed to some magazines using the Zinio app for my iPad since, gosh, the iPad 1! Today, they sent me an email informing me they’d been having problems and it may have affected one of my downloads. Honestly, if it did, I hadn’t even noticed.
Nevertheless, they [...]

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Tags: Digital Content · Entertainment · Marketing and Communications · Tech Business

“Cloud” vs. Local

March 7th, 2011 · No Comments

posted by Doyle
I did communications for a hard disk drive company for about five years. We would replace any hard drive that was less than three years old, no questions asked. If we didn’t make the size you had any longer, we’d give you more capacity. All free of charge.
After the customer was relieved to [...]

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Tags: Communication Strategies · Tech Business

Why You Need to Care About Net Neutrality

August 24th, 2010 · No Comments

posted by Doyle
There’s lots of banter in tech circles and the media of late about net neutrality. I firmly believe this is one of the most important issues facing how we communicate today, yet it’s often misunderstood, even by by lawmakers who may be asked to determine how everything will finally shake out.
Why is net neutrality [...]

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Tags: Tech Business · Web/Tech · social media

Calling ALL Lady Entrepreneurs

August 31st, 2009 · No Comments

Posted by Melissa Vizcarra (@melissaviz)
Entries are now open for the First Annual Leading Lady Awards ceremony and luncheon, celebrating Colorado women entrepreneurs and their contribution to the local economy, presented Nov. 5 by Ladies Who Launch Colorado.
This one-of-a-kind awards ceremony will recognize Colorado women business owners of all ages, backgrounds, industries and stages of launch. [...]

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Tags: Events · Tech Business

Sound Business Optimism

July 20th, 2009 · No Comments

Posted by Lisa Metzger
I’m not a big fan of platitudes and cheesy advice. I find the self-help section of book stores creepy. And, at the risk of offending and alienating the entire Western world and certainly a good ¾ of the rest, I think the Cult of Oprah is pathetic. Blaspheme, I know. Going to [...]

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Tags: Communication Strategies · Mainstream Media · Retailing · Tech Business · Uncategorized

Bad PR is, Well, Just Bad

July 6th, 2009 · 1 Comment

posted by Doyle
Mike Arrington of TechCrunch and Dave Taylor of the Business Blog at Intuitive.com have again launched the “is PR dying/does PR just suck?” discussion (TechCrunch here and Intuitive here).
In the end, I think both say the same thing in different ways: Bad PR is bad (some of it, to quote the late, great [...]

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Tags: Communication Strategies · Tech Business

Rebuilding the World with Free Everything, at SXSW

March 19th, 2009 · 1 Comment

Dave Taylor talks about his experience speaking on a SXSW panel with keynote speaker Chris Anderson, Doc Searls, William Hurley and Katherine Druckman.

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Tags: New Media · Tech Business

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