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Citizen Journalism: Who is a Journalist Today?

Proactive Report

Almost half of all Americans (47%) now get some form of local news on a mobile device. Apple released the first iPad in April of 2010 and sold 3 million within 80 days. 3 out of 5 tablet owners consume news on their tablets and many news publications have created a tablet app.

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7 Traits of Highly Effective Viral Videos

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Once online, it caught the attention of executives at Apple who flew him into California to make it a commercial reality. Fede Alvarez published a small film to YouTube a few weeks ago, and it landed him a $30 million movie deal. Nick Haley created the video at home for fun and uploaded it to YouTube.

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Why Customer Service Should Be in Your Social Media Marketing Strategy

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Social media, quite simply, relates to the usage of content created by easily accessible publishing technologies (social media sites such as Facebook or Twitter, photo publishing sites such as Flickr, video sites like YouTube and Vimeo) that is generated by the hundreds of millions of consumers utilizing these technologies.

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Blogging: Social Media is Not Only About Social Media Sites

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Well, for one, social media users — that is, users on social news sites such as Digg, Mixx, Reddit — are not particularly enthusiastic about the proliferation of marketers in their community. This is a huge challenge for someone who wants to sell their product using social media.

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Paywall for News.com and Online Community Social Media

Laurel Papworth

No journalists, except a journalists that now work in social media and a few bloggers now paid to bring their audiences and expert knowledge to journalism (blogournalists?) e.g. my partner Gary Hayes being published in Wired and The Guardian. Then it’s Social Classifieds. So does Apple with their App Store.

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The Audacity of Free: The Products and Services Edition

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Whether or not it’s my choice — and in book publishing, there are other parties involved beyond just the writer — it’s just the wrong question to ask. FWIW, someone emailed me earlier today asking for help, not long after this post was published, and maybe *because* this post was published. Probably not.

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Fifteen Years of Online Social Interactions

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

At the same time, the concept of “free&# is empowering individuals to become publishers, as any individual can now harness free software online to create his/her little on place on the web. Our family’s first computer (which wasn’t net-equipped) was an Apple IIgs which my father purchased in 1987.

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