I’m just on the heels of Jeff Pulver’s Video on the Net conference in Boston, where he and Chris Brogan lined up some very interesting panels looking at the state of the internet video industry. One of the themes that threaded its way through numerous sessions was the notion of “media snacking”. A [...]

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Capricorn, Community, and Craft
Just before boarding a flight to the Craft Hobby Association show this past Friday, I gave one last check on Twitter. Twitter friend and resident astrologist @KrazyKritter had just posted Capricorn. Now look, I’m not normally superstitious, but the outlook for Capricorn resonated with me.

“Today is finally the right time to embrace [...]

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The real value proposition of social media is that it connects people on a deeply human level with hundreds, thousands, even millions of networked people across time and geography. Social networks, empowering core constituencies of passionate users around targeted, niche market content, are emerging as a powerful media marketforce.
As I googled around looking for evidence [...]

Posted in BluChipz, CHA, Craft Hobby Association, Crafty Nation, Craig Ridley, Jeremiah Owyang, Jim Long, Kevin Johnson, Michael Rosenblum, Pod Tech, Stewart Pittman, TV news, Toni Lyn, athletics, b-roll.net, big media, branding, college sports, disruptive media, high school sports, mainstream media, new media, promotion, small tv, social media, social networking, sports programs, tradtional media, value, video blogging, video journalist 15 Comments »