Learning to repeat yourself, a lot, over and over again – Lessons in Entrepreneurship
Lauren Michell Rabaino said: .@digidave's two cents on company taglines, pitching your vision, repeating yourself and smiling. #startups
The questions never stop and depending on where your organization is – you can expect to get the same question over and over again. No matter the question – journalists need to learn to represent their organization with a smile.
Chile is a story about journalism’s failure (updated)
Scott Karp said: 1300 journalists covering Chilean miners: Journalism can no longer afford that kind of inefficiency
Steve Jobs, Circa 1997, Reintroducing Apple
Scott Karp said: Steve Jobs in 1997: Those people crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones that actually do.
The Twitter Diet: a simple, three-point plan for Twitter dominance
Ryan Sholin said: From @mthomps at NPR's Project Argo, a strategic content analysis of @poynter and @niemanlab's tweets.
Both of these accounts are successful. 15,000+ followers is nothing to sneeze at. But @NiemanLab on the right is definitely more successful. These accounts are tweeting pretty similar types of information – news and useful information for journalists and media types. Yet @NiemanLab seems to be garnering more influence for its efforts. @Poynter has tweeted more than three times as much as @NiemanLab, but it has 10,000 fewer followers, and it’s on 1,000 fewer lists. Why might this be?
TBD debuts with no new ideas, but real action
Ryan Sholin said: Friends at @lostremote review friends at @TBD: "What’s novel about TBD is not the ideas, but the action."
These are all old ideas, quite frankly. Journalists have talked about them for years now. Others have pitched them to their bosses until they’re blue in the face. And still others have launched elements of these ideas as niche products, subsets or prototypes. But this is the first time that a local media group — especially in the TV space — has wrapped these ideas together and aggressively launched them with an investment to back it up.
Spot.Us Goes National, Gets Clay Shirky as Sponsor
Ryan Sholin said: Spot.Us goes national, with stories brewing in Illinois, Texas, Minnesota, and across the country.
It makes little sense for me to tell a good pitch from Illinois or Texas that they can't put their pitch up until we find a handful of other pitches in their region. So, as of last week, the sub-domains at Spot.Us have been removed. Trying to convince people in a specific region to use the site -- while stopping others from using it because they aren't in the right region -- is not the best use of our time or energy.
WikiLeaks Bombshell on Afghan War: What You Need to Know
Ryan Sholin said: This curated list of links on the Wikileaks/Afghanistan story from @gregmitch is a perfect place to start reading.
Despite advance claims of secret documents coming soon, it still felt like this bombshell arrived almost out of nowhere Sunday afternoon...
The Knight Batten Awards: New Recipes for Journalism
Greg Linch said: J-Lab Director Jan Schaffer writes about the Knight-Batten Award winners.
This year, without a doubt, the innovations clustered around the process of journalism - not just the finished product.
Seattle nightclub owners have ally at City Hall
Ryan Sholin said: The Seattle Times is using Publish2 to add context to stories about efforts to stem nightclub noise and violence.
What if search drove newspapers?
Daniel Bachhuber said: There's significant opportunity is building tools that allow news organizations to better understand demand for knowledge.
