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What The Wall Street Journal Has, Few Will Match

by Jason Falls · October 30, 2009

Mediaweek magazine puts together a “Digital Hot List” each year of the websites or companies they see as having the potential to wow the web world. Their list never seems to be much of a surprise, especially when you consider Google, Facebook and Twitter are sort of default entries, but there’s always one or two on it that raise an eyebrow.

This year it’s the Wall Street Journal‘s website, WSJ.com, in at No. 8. Yep! The website property of a traditional media outlet is on Mediaweek‘s Digital Hot List. And no, it’s not a joke.

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Newspapers: Stop Hiding Behind The First Amendment

by Jason Falls · June 30, 2009

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I’m proud to say the first legal action that may (I have my fingers firmly crossed) smack newspapers right across the face for allowing their website commentors to post anonymously could stem from a case developing here in my home state of Kentucky. Kymberly Clem, a student at Eastern Kentucky University, is suing the Richmond Register and an online commentor known as 12bme for defamation.

Clem was kicked out of a mall in August of last year for allegedly wearing a dress that was too revealing. She bought it at the same mall the day before. The commenter claimed on the Register’s story of the event that she was actually kicked out for exposing herself to a woman and her children who commented on the dress.

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How Journalists Can Leverage Social Media

by Jason Falls · February 26, 2009

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Last summer I spent a good deal of time researching and preparing a presentation for Blog World & New Media Expo on putting social media in the newsroom. The point was to show media outlets how some were using web 2.0 and social media technologies to expand their online offerings and engage audiences around their news-gathering products. The focus was directed at executives and media outlets as opposed to individual journalists.

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The Media & Social Media: Follow Up With Cincinnati Enquirer

by Jason Falls · August 22, 2008

Cincinnati Enquirer headquarters building at 3...Image via Wikipedia

On Monday, I gave a sneak preview of my upcoming panel presentation at Blog World & New Media Expo to about 60 folks in attendance at Social Media Club Louisville. Part of the reason was to share some case studies and examples of how some traditional media members are using social media and what kind of strategic approach they are probably using to engage their audiences differently. The other reason I gave it was for people to shoot holes in it and help me identify gaps in thinking so it would be better for Las Vegas.

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4 Ways To Save The Newsroom

by Jason Falls · May 28, 2008

I took this picture.

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Everywhere you look, traditional media outlets are dying off. Okay, not dying, but laying off staff, being devalued at sale, cutting budgets, trimming corners and falling all over themselves trying to figure out web strategies to save their collective asses. There’s even a new website to track layoffs in the newspaper business. Subscription rates are falling. Advertising sales are sinking as well. The American consumer has moved online and the only news she’s getting via ink and paper is the row and seat number of her next flight, which she prints out herself.

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Fast Company Leads Off With Microcommunity Home Run

by Jason Falls · February 9, 2008

Logging into Fast Company’s new online community (fastcompany.com now in public beta) a few weeks ago was a neat perk of having a social media friend at a big company. I took my head start, got in, played around for a few hours, liked what I saw, then moved on to something else, forgetting to come back to it. Silly me.FastCompany.com screen shotShel  Israel’s post Friday reminded me I was a member of the Fast Company community and I should go back and see if I could find more friends that might start hanging out there, producing content, sharing ideas and all the things that come from social networks.

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Outing The Ad Business – Holy Fark! Part 3

by Jason Falls · January 31, 2008

Episode 3 of our Holy Fark! series with Fark.com founder and author Drew Curtis turns the focus on traditional media. Curtis says newspapers and television news aren’t in trouble, as many industry watchers say, they’re just used to larger profits. He then takes us through an explanation of why the Internet is outing the advertising model of legacy media as a rip-off and asserts that social media is “the way to go” in terms of reaching audiences.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqUljvpWcss[/youtube]

For more, check out Holy Fark! Part 1 and Holy Fark! Part 2.

[tags]Drew Curtis, Fark, Fark.com, advertising, media, newspapers, mass media, Jason Falls[/tags]

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