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On-camera Tips
I just finished up a great all-day intensive on-camera workshop at mediabistro. Clients included a priest, interior designer, and toy curator. Much of the discussion focused on how to USE video not...
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From On-Air Reporter to Online Video Powerhouse: Dina Kaplan
Dina Kaplan is the COO of blip.tv, the online video distribution site. There’s a great profile of her in this week’s Observer. She went from local tv reporter to COO of a company that hosts and...
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Just 1 Minute of News
The website OneMinuteNews.com launched last week. It offers, obviously, a one minute video wrap up of news (mostly AP footage, as far as I can tell) and claims: “You might notice news is different...
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5 Reasons Why: Sign up for Startup Boot Camp…
I’m prepping to host mediabistro’s 8-week online Startup Boot Camp which kicks off July 20th with live sessions on Tuesdays from 2-3pm EST . (the nitty gritty: you log into...
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My Webcast with Rafat Ali
Today was Session #1 of mediabistro’s StartUp Bootcamp. So incredibly impressed that paidContent founder Rafat Ali was our opening speaker…I know it is hard to nail that man down so props to MB! Since...
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Lean Start-Up Notes *plus a few job listings
So I’m hosting mediabistro’s Start-Up Bootcamp and last week we had Eric Ries, founder of the “Lean Start-Up” methodology & a Harvard Entrepreneur-in-Residence, speak. He is all about getting...
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Are You Polarized Enough for PollPosition.com?
I’ve been checking out Poll Position, the new website from former CNN chief news exec Eason Jordan. I got to know Eason over the summer when I hosted Mediabistro’s Start-Up Bootcamp and he asked some...
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More than a Journalist: Becoming an “Author”
It feels very strange to make the transition from interviewer to interviewee. Writing a book was never on my To Do list until the Vook publishing platform made me reconsider. Now, as the countdown to...
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Should Your Local Bodega Get “Wired”?
Bodega in Brooklyn, via Flickr user Paul Kostro. I wrote a piece for WNYC.org yesterday on a report put out by The Center for Urban Future that I’ve been thinking about. Here’s the gist of what the...
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