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David Strom's Web Informant (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Paul Gillin and I have restarted our ever-popular series of podcasts called MediaBlather. This week we interview Adam Christensen, the head of social media communications for IBM. Just get a look at some of these stats: Internal blogs: 17,000 Members of the Beehive social network: 60,000 Daily page views on IBM’s internal wiki: 1,000,000 IBMers on Twitter: 3,000 IBMers on [...]
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The Flack (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
We were gathered at our bi-monthly Boys' Lunch at Michael's last month when one of "the boys," a very senior media-minded communications executive, looked at me incredulously when I said I actually read Bernoff's Groundswell , Jarvis's What Would Google Do , and Godin's Tribes , among others. He definitely thought I was either drunk on the Kool-Aid or in need of a new life. Just as the number...
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Strategic Inspiration for you (Free subscription) | 02/10/2009
Via a Twitter update by Paul Gillin , I came across this posting through which I learned that 367 hospitals in the United States of America are now using one or more social media tools to reach out to their patients and other stakeholders. Recently, I came across a couple of examples: Example # 1 Ron Dixon, Massachusetts General Hospital: "For the last four months of his life, I skyped with that...
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The Eclectic Chapbook (Free subscription) | 01/10/2009
The Tribune Co, parent of the Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel newspaper, has told Bankruptcy Judge Kevin Carey the company needs to disburse $70 million in bonuses to its top managers in order to motivate them. # Paul Gillin reports that Bob Garfield from NPR's On The Media radio program has just had a new book published called The Chaos Scenario , which Gillin reviews with a big Thumbs-Up and says is...
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HubSpot Internet Marketing Blog (Free subscription) | 09/09/2009
This guest post is written by Paul Gillin , writer, speaker, and online marketing consultant. Catch Paul speaking at the Inbound Marketing Summit in Boston, MA this October. Register with the code HUB200 and get $200 off the ticket price. If you follow social media marketing closely, you’ve probably heard the story of Fiskars , the Finnish maker of fine cutting tools that has used a private...
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Silicon Valley Watcher (Free subscription) | 01/09/2009
The deadline for the Society of New Communications Research 2009 Excellence in New Communications Awards is coming up on September 7. Here is more info from SNCR founder Jen McClure: Don't miss your opportunity to participate in the most prestigious awards program honoring corporations, governmental and nonprofit organizations, educational institutions, media outlets and individuals who are innovating...
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Worker Bees Blog (Free subscription) | 25/08/2009
I'm sorry I'm only posting this now, but there are still two weeks left in which to submit a a nomination for the Society for New Communications Research Announces Call for Entries for 2009 Excellence in New Communications Awards . I'm a Founding Fellow of SNCR , which has been around since 2005. It's a global nonprofit research and education foundation and think tank focused on the latest developments...
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Digital Productions (Free subscription) | 21/08/2009
If you want to understand the nightmare facing the newspaper industry you need look no further for their perspective than that of Donald Sutherland’s character in the movie ‘Invasion of the Body Snatchers’ . Newspapers had evolved to a harmonious form where each copy was in effect a small, portable version of the world wide web. A little bit of news on any subject you could think...
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Social Media (Free subscription) | 24/07/2009
Getting Over Fear of Failure to Make Rapid Decisions View more presentations from Paul Gillin. For the past 10 weeks I’ve been a faculty member of the Knight Digital Media Center Leadership Conference, helping editors from 10 newspapers learn how to incorporate social media into their newsrooms. The online training sessions culminated in three days of [...]
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fredzimny ccccc blog (Free subscription) | 14/07/2009
Nice reflection from Paul Gillin. For me it is all about the transition from data to conversations, the fading out of permanent relationship in favor of close encounters. And of course, things that do not matter for me may exist for a very long time. Nice to reflect and connecting on your professional and personal level! Source: [...]
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Teaching Online Journalism (Free subscription) | 10/06/2009
Engagement — one of three legs needed to support successful social media projects. (The others are inclusion and aggregation.) What does this mean for journalists, for news organizations? Paul Gillin, a social media consultant and former technology journalist, says journalists have to play “to people’s particular interests” if we hope to engage the public. I know, that doesn’t...
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The Eclectic Chapbook (Free subscription) | 04/06/2009
While Seattle itself is still struggling with a real life murder case abroad in Perugia Italy, Rob Lopresti interviewed Curt Colbert about editing the Seattle Noir collection for Akashic Books. Just a wee glimpse into the process. # Sherman Alexie has kicked up quite a storm with his remarks about the K*ndle. Ed Champion chats with him further about the topic; the blog entry has been drawing a lot...
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Pundit Review (Free subscription) | 04/05/2009
This goal for this hour was to talk about social networks, from the cutting edge of the digital age to social networks the Flinstones era, and we will tie them all together through Saddam Hussein. If you are wondering whether I have lost my marbles or not, we'll find out in the next 60 [...]
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Silicon Valley Watcher (Free subscription) | 01/05/2009
I was at Chris Brogan's Inbound Marketing Summit on Wednesday, speaking on a panel moderated by Paul Gillin, on the subject of "Media in Transition: The Future of News in a Democratized World." My old friend Dean Takahashi from VentureBeat (formerly with Wall Street Journal, Red Herring, San Jose Mercury) was also on the panel, along with Ken Doctor , analyst with Outsell. Media in transition...
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The Writing Life (Free subscription) | 23/04/2009
I've resisted many of the tools of social media because they appear to be a huge time zapper. Yet repeatedly as I've experimented with the tools, I've found huge benefits and returns on my investment -- often in surprising ways. Paul Gillin is an expert in this medium and you can learn a vast amount of insight from the pages of Secrets of Social M edia Marketing . And my resistance? It is rooted in...
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