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August 2009

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Daisy Wants YOU!

On line maverick Daisy Whitney is accepting original video submissions around the theme Time Of My Life, the title of Allison Winn Scotch's NY Times bestseller just released in paperback. What does she want from you? Produce a 10-15 second video for a chance to be featured in the New Media Minute. Daisy Whitney has been acknowledged as a new media expert. She specializes in covering Internet video, social networking, YouTube, iTunes and other forms of online and new media distribution of content.
August 18, 2009
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Online Trends: Citizen Journalism

Help a Journalist Out Sites such as CNN's iReport have been the big "Thing" in online trend-setting in 2009 when it comes to citizen journalism -- the concept of members of the public "playing an active role in the process of collecting, reporting, analyzing and disseminating news and information," according to the seminal 2003 report We Media: How Audiences are Shaping the Future of News and Information. Authors Bowman and Willis say: "The intent of this participation is to provide independent, reliable,…
August 17, 2009
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Online Trends: Avatars Doing Well with Virtual Economies

Have you stopped playing in the Second Life universe?  Sick of avatars -- are they too 2007 for you? Avatars and virtual worlds have yet to make their biggest impact: on the economic level, already having rooted itself deep into entertainment and intellectual challange.  Virtial reality will soon effect "the meat world" as some call it, and there are many who have been anticipating the rise of an entire economy around virtual goods and services. (more…)
August 14, 2009
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Online Ad Awareness

This is news of importance interest to us all...a new study entitled "Improving Ad Performance Online: The Impact of Advertising on Content Sites" was released by the Online Publishers Association concludes that advertising on premium websites, as apposed to web portals, is a more effective tool for advertisers. The study reveals that ads on content sites scored higher in raising brand awareness, message association, brand favorability and purchase intent by large margins. Online ad awareness, measuring whether or not consumers remember seeing…
August 14, 2009
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Just discovered “Photo Snack” an image slideshow tool that is free and easy to use

<a href="http://www.photosnack.com/" mce_href="http://www.photosnack.com/" title="Photo sharing">Photo slideshows</a> This snazzy image slideshow tool is sexy and smooth. Like pre-made chocolate milk it's yummy. It is free to use and easy to set up slideshows. They do offer a premium version where you can remove their watermarked logo "which is nice". It allows for up to 250 mb uploads per account until you have to pay for more space. These guys are smart and I would like to shake their hands then shake…
August 11, 2009