This past week, I attended the New Communications Forum, birthplace of the Society for New Communications Research. It was my first visit (finally) to this event, and as expected there was lots to learn, discuss—and ask. Here are some impressions of the sessions I attended, along with samples of in-the-moment Twitter commentary: Tuesday opening keynote [...]
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Voce Communications has partnered with The Community Roundtable to produce a new podcast series, Conversations with Community Managers. In this series, Voce’s Doug Haslam and The Community Roundtable’s Jim Storer speak with people from a variety of industries about their efforts with online community; what they are doing, the challenges and opportunities unique to their [...]
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After about five years as a listener, I had the good fortune to be asked to co-host an episode of the podcast “For Immediate Release” with Shel Holtz; I was filling in for regular co-host Neville Hobson, and I hope I represented Voce Nation well. While the show notes are posted at the FIR site, [...]
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Is Zynga being shady with a charitable effort, or is journalism in the social age showing its “always in draft mode” innards? The setup: Despite being an avid Facebooker, I never really took to the gaming aspect of the social network. In particular, many of my friends are rabid Farmville and Mafia Wars players. Both [...]
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I recently had the pleasure of attending LaunchCamp in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The event, organized by Todd Van Hoosear and Chuck Tanowitz of Fresh Ground Communications (and both former colleagues), was a new one but took place in partnership with the long-running Social Media Breakfast and the Social Media Club. The partnership implied that a number [...]
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