Friday, Sept. 19, 2014

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News App Showdown: Yahoo News Digest, NYT Now, Circa, AJ+ From www.rjionline.org - Today, 4:18 PM Every news outlet has its own app, but who wants to open them all every morning? Enter the aggregated news apps, which have gone from Flipboard, Zite and Trove to Yahoo News Digest (born as Summly), NYT Now, Circa and the most recent entrant from Al Jazeera: AJ+. Brian Steffens 's insight: add your insight... More newspaper subscribers embracing mobile media while retaining their attachment to print | RJI From www.rjionline.org - Today, 4:16 PM Newspaper subscribers are increasingly using smartphones and tablets while retaining a strong attachment to print, according to the latest mobile media survey from RJI. Brian Steffens 's insight: add your insight... Knight Prototype Fund produces open source interactive story tool Odyssey.js From www.editorandpublisher.com - Today, 2:55 PM Brian Steffens 's insight: add your insight... ‘Legacies’ Open Door to ‘Pure Plays’ With Local Media Consortium From streetfightmag.com - Today, 2:13 PM The Local Media Consortium has grown to 50 publishers, whose products include 800 newspapers and 200 broadcast stations across the U.S. Here, Rusty Coats, Brian Steffens 's insight: LMC's Rusty Coats updates Streetfight's Tom Grubisich The Case For Management Intuition For The Next 50 Years From www.mediapost.com - Today, 11:56 AM The Case For Management Intuition For The Next 50 Years - 09/17/2014 Brian Steffens 's insight: "New intuition must recognize that businesses can start and gain scale with stunning speed while using little capital, that value is shifting between sectors, that entrepreneurs and start-ups often have new advantages over large established businesses, that the life cycle of companies is shortening, and that decision making has never had to be so rapid fire." Latest research on domestic violence, e-cigarettes, processed food, transportation From us1.campaign-archive1.com - Today, 10:46 AM Brian Steffens 's insight: add your insight... Can the media industry Spotify content? From www.inma.org - September 18, 9:47 PM Spotify sells consumers their personalised playlist. Airlines sell destinations. Gas stations sell a smorgasbord. A farm in Switzerland rents its cows to city dwellers, selling a country experience. Perhaps media companies should consider creating completely new products driven from co-creation, audience empowerment, and reader-driven choices. Brian Steffens 's insight: Have you moved in this direction? Bring your innovation to our Potter Conference. http://goo.gl/G1p04Z iPhone And Tablet E-commerce Booming With An Email Push From www.mediapost.com - September 18, 9:35 PM iPhone And Tablet E-commerce Booming With An Email Push - 09/16/2014 Brian Steffens 's insight: Can your readers/viewers click on an ad and buy what they're looking at? I don't mean click and link to the advertiser, then click again to the shopping cart, etc. I mean one-click purchase (or as near as you can get it). If not, your value proposition is vulnerable. Look to turn your enterprise into a local marketplace, an Amazon of local SMBs. Do it before someone else takes the market from you. Don't dawdle while another Craigslist or Groupon siphons away your business.Already developed one? Tell me about it :-) Bring it to our Potter Conference. http://goo.gl/G1p04Z n+1: Learning that print and digital can peacefully coexist From www.niemanlab.org - September 18, 9:04 PM A look at how n+1, celebrating its tenth anniversary this year, built its reputation and maintains its business. Brian Steffens 's insight: add your insight... Al Jazeera’s digital news venture AJ+ launches with a dedicated iPhone app From gigaom.com - September 18, 2:16 PM Al Jazeera is officially unveiling AJ+ and the AJ+ iPhone app, which aims to bring news and context to people who don’t watch news on TV anymore. Brian Steffens 's insight: add your insight... 5 mistakes publishers make with their data From digiday.com - September 16, 11:10 PM What do most people think of when they think of analytics? Metrics and measurement, mostly. Limiting analytics to just metrics and measurement limits what you can do. How does a publisher make the leap from metrics to action? Sponsor content by Parse.ly. Brian Steffens 's insight: Written by an analytics vendor, but the concepts are useful no matter what analytics platform you're using (hopefully you're using anallytics). It's not just journalists -- for better or worse, design plays a key role in how we get our news From gigaom.com - September 16, 10:56 PM The news is no longer contained in an object we can hold, but flows around us through a variety of apps and services, and the design or algorithmic choices those platforms make can affect how we see the world around us Social platforms Yo and GoPop | RJI From www.rjionline.org - Today, 4:17 PM Could a single two-letter word be used to convey news? And what if a platform combined features of Snapchat, Vine and Instagram? Brian Steffens 's insight: add your insight... Mythbusters: Digital media's biggest misconceptions From digiday.com - Today, 3:18 PM We asked a handful of digital media thought-leaders one not-so-simple question: "What's something everyone believes about digital media that's wrong?" Brian Steffens 's insight: "[Myth:] Letting the intern handle social strategy. In reality, it's: Let the rocket scientist with an MBA and a marketing budget handle social strategy." iOS 8: How 5 news orgs have updated their apps for Apple’s new operating system From www.niemanlab.org - Today, 2:30 PM ABC, the AP, Breaking News, The Guardian, and The New York Times have all updated apps (or introduced new ones) to take advantage of new features on iOS 8. Brian Steffens 's insight: add your insight... WTF is the filter bubble? From digiday.com - Today, 12:01 PM Old warnings from Internet visionaries about the growth of the "filter bubble" seem to be coming true. But what is it, and why does it matter? Brian Steffens 's insight: add your insight... Journalism isn't just about informing readers, it's also about helping them take action From gigaom.com - Today, 11:05 AM Journalists need to learn how to do more than just tell readers about news events — they need to understand how to listen as well, and how to help their communities take action on the issues that are of importance to them Brian Steffens 's insight: add your insight... Growing Audience For Newspapers - ASNE/ APME Conference 2014 From www.slideshare.net - September 18, 10:31 PM This is Amy Webb's presentation to ASNE/ APME on trends and strategies to grow newspaper audiences. Brian Steffens 's insight: Trends and strategies to grow newspaper audiences (SlideShare) Amy Webb and API executive director Tom Rosenstiel presented at the ASNE/APME conference in Chicago on tech and media trends to key an eye on. Webb shares her presentation here and identifies the three key opportunities for news organizations: rethinking your audience, engaging your audience, and distributing news to your audience. We highly recommend it. 10 industries smartphones are radically changing From www.inma.org - September 18, 9:42 PM Media companies are not the only corporations being affected by the integration of smartphones into everyday life. From toy retailers to taxi companies, many industries are having to rethink their business models to keep up with digital technology. Brian Steffens 's insight: add your insight... Moving to the Centre: Star will be 'integrated and engaged' with the community From www.indystar.com - September 18, 9:10 PM News organizations are not exactly known as mall tenants, like Orange Julius or Forever 21. The nation's largest mall developer, Simon Property Group, for example, has never had a media tenant like The Star among its more than 100 enclosed shopping malls. Brian Steffens 's insight: add your insight... How will the new iPhone screen sizes affect iOS developers? From gigaom.com - September 18, 2:20 PM Apple may have challenged iPhone developers to figure out how best to support the different screen dimensions of the new iPhone 6 and 6 Plus, something that Android developers have been doing for years. Brian Steffens 's insight: add your insight... How to See Around Corners and Stay Relevant From www.linkedin.com - September 16, 11:18 PM Brian Steffens 's insight: "More specifically, I am charged with helping my company identify how content consumption is changing and turning these insights into practical integrated communications strategies." How Linking to Knowledge Could Boost News Media From www.mondaynote.com - September 16, 11:00 PM TweetBe Sociable, Share! Tweet Related columns: News Media Revenue Matrix: The Bird’s Eye View Tweet Publishers struggle with newer and more complex business models. Some appear stronger than others but, above all, a broad palette is a must. It is a means to capture emerging opportunities and to compensate for the drying up of older(...) Mediatwits 130: Will Apple revolutionize wearables, payments? From www.rjionline.org - September 12, 10:55 PM This week was put-up-or-shut-up time for Apple, with its stock sagging and innovations coming from others (mainly Samsung) while Apple’s iterations were minor by comparison. With the spotlight squarely on Apple and Cook, the company pushed in all its chips with a brand new product, the Apple Watch, along with one-touch Apple Pay, and some larger, thinner iPhones.

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