Chris Brogan and Julien Smith, authors of “Trust Agents,” doled out some of their irreverent wisdom on social media during their panel “I Don’t Trust You One Single Bit.” “You can’t offer anyone any amount of money to make them your friend,” Smith said. The same idea applies in social media. Everyone is out there, […]
A nonprofit’s business model usually focuses on grants and personal donations. But what happens when the giving starts to wane, and you’re running out of resources? In their less-than-traditional panel, Technology For Results, Not Profits, “Digerati Pastor” Terry Storch and Head Pastor Bobby Grunewald of LifeChurch.tv opened discussion on ways nonprofits can maintain and even grow […]
“Tenure is broken and it’s holding universities back,” said the panelists at “Universities in the Free Era. Glenn Platt from the Miami University Armstrong Institute for Interactive Media Studies and Peg Faimon from Miami University Design Collaborative talked about why they see the traditional university structure collapsing. Platt said tenure holds universities back the most. When he […]
Two up-and-coming media professionals discussed ways to pay for quality journalism–and neither mentioned display ads or classifieds. David Cohn, a former writer for Wired, launched spot.us a year ago on a Knight Foundation grant. He and a small staff review “pitches” for news and feature stories in the Los Angeles and San Francisco By areas. […]
The key theme from the SXSWi Panel “How to Make a Living as a Blogger?” It’s not easy. Panelists Brian Fairbanks and Colleen Kane discussed the challenges a potential professional blogger faces. Some of the highlights: Some of the silliest topics get the most hits. This is something a blogger has to balance. Do you really […]
Mark Cuban, owner of Dallas Mavericks and general rich guy, and Avner Ronen of Boxee duked it out on this panel about Pay TV vs. the Internet. The conversation started out contentious and stayed that way throughout, even with a break for a fire alarm (luckily it was false). Cuban’s position was that the Internet […]
In the past two years crowdsourcing has often popped up as a Web 2.0 buzz word, but there are a few important questions that few have asked since the discussion on the phenomenon started: what exactly entails crowdsourcing and is it sustainable? That’s exactly what Scott Belsky, of behence, and Jeffrey Kalmikoff, of Digg and […]