Submitted by Magitam
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In this issue of Media Literacy Digest, open education advocate George Siemens, takes you to news and stories on emergent media, technology and learning, helping you make good sense of the many changes taking place around you and of how these directly impact your daily lives.Photo credit: Victor HabbickInside this Media Lit (Read More)
Dan Heller's Photography Business Blog:
In a discussion forum on LinkedIn a while ago, a photographer in the UK named Clare-Louise posts a question, "What's the best way to market myself?"The responses come flooding in: "Put your best portfolio together and send it to as many people as you can," writes one. "Do a direct mail marketing campaign," says another. "Bu (Read More)
Engadget:
We're proud to congratulate Ross Rubin (@rossrubin) on five years of Switched On, a column about consumer technology. Check out the first-ever Switched On right here -- we're looking forward to five more years!Good morning, students. My name is Dr. John Fleming and I welcome you all to MKTG 503: Fictional Technology Product (Read More)
Submitted by Reechard
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Exclusive: Jimmy Wales on what's next for Wikipedia Why Wikipedia needs geeks and why a life unplugged is unthinkable By Natasha Lomas Published: Thursday 05 November 2009 In an exclusive interview, Wikipedia founder and silicon.com Agenda Setter Jimmy Wales talks to Natasha Lomas about what's next for Wik (Read More)
Submitted by Marcel
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We think it was the media economy keynote of the year. Carta is proud to present a transcript of Jeff Jarvis’ keynote to the Printgipfel (29-10-2009; Medientage München) together with a vimeo-video of for everyone to include.Code here.Here is the transcript:“Danke, es tur mir sehr leid, dass mein Deutsch so schlimm ist. Als (Read More)
The Inquisitr » Tech:
The NPD Group have released early numbers for Windows 7 sales and they show that the new operating system is performing over two times better than the companies last OS, Windows Vista. Those numbers according to the firm include deep pre-order discounting, a strong marketing campaign and overall better reviews of the produc (Read More)
Submitted by Magitam
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This is the web edition of Nerd on the Street, Institutional Investor Magazine, November 2009 (Download the slick print version here)Trying to understand what happened to capitalism in 2008 without serious data collection and analysis is a poster child example of reasoning “unencumbered by the thought process”, the theme o (Read More)
Photo Business News & Forum:
Once upon a time, I was the Vice President of the American Society of Picture Professionals (ASPP) in our local chapter, and have always been a fan of the organization, so when they asked me to share the stage in a moderated conversation with a noted attorney, and take questions from the audience in an effort to dispel many (Read More)
Photo Business News & Forum:
As a part of FotoWeekDC, tomorrow, Saturday, November 7, I will be presenting a two-hour program on business practices, including how to value your work and place it (and you) in the best light, as well as handling client negotiations. Below are the details - oh, and it's FREE!1:00pm - 3pmJohn Harrington - The Art Of the De (Read More)
A Photo Editor:
This is why your company needs an experienced marketer on staff. Real marketing directors have an understanding of intellectual property laws. Photographs, fonts, illustrations, and other design elements found online are not free for you to use, especially for commercial purposes.via Brand’s Anatomy.------------------------ (Read More)
MakeUseOf.com:
That’s true…articles from 650 magazines for you to read. But instead of flipping the pages, you will have to click the mouse at Maggwire.Who reads magazines these days? Plenty of people, I would say. My mother is one of them because the digital world is still like a mystic’s ball to her. Me? For me the differentiation doesn (Read More)
Photo Business News & Forum:
Advising photographers that you should only ever register a single image at at time is just as dim-witted as advice to someone to never go across the street because you might get hit by a car. Yet, the brilliant minds parading around as experts-in-residence at the dubiously named Copyright Registry are telling you to do jus (Read More)
Submitted by Mythbstr
from YouTube:
FULL LENGTH MOVIE OF CHRISTIAN THE LION CUB REUNION REUNITED, with John Rendall Ace Bourke George Adamson Born Free. ***NEWLY RELEASED INTERVIEW WITH JOHN RENDALL - ACE BOURKE SPEAKING EXCLUSIVELY ON TV ABOUT CHRISTIANS LEGACY http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/25929574/A great link here at Snopes all about Christian the lion a (Read More)
Photo Business News & Forum:
Let's say you're Getty images, and you have to pay a staffer $350 a day, plus gear and other overhead, to cover an event, which would amount to about $600 a day. From that event, let's say you have fifteen $25 sales of your wholey-owned content, or, even worse, 100 images fit the bill for a subscription model, where the per (Read More)
mashable:
Sarah Evans is a public relations and new media consultant and speaker at Sevans Strategy. She also authors a PR and social media blog and is the founder of #journchat.Twitter’s new Lists feature is all the rage right now. There are probably already millions of lists, and that number is growing by the minute (or second). So (Read More)