It’s noisy out there for sure. People broadcasting their morning coffee, news from every corner of the world, companies desperately trying to get our attention and cat videos. Turns out that once we democratized the ability to broadcast, our ability to create content (noise) became unlimited. And know that there are many people out there [...]

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Inside Facebook confirm rumors of Facebook testing a new virtual currency. Have we seen something like this before? A closed system, with lots of new people interacting with no real purpose –just sharin’ — and exchanging money for virtual goods? Well, yes we have, remember SecondLife? Of course, Facebook is way easier to [...]

Next Wednesday the Master of Communication in Digital Media (MCDM) at UW will host an event to discuss how digital can save journalism. The panelists are well-respected journalists that have embraced digital tools and have succeeded in producing news in a whole new way and cultivating audiences. They run some of my favorite local news [...]

This week I had the pleasure to talk to some of Seattle’s pro-bloggers: John Cook, Todd Bishop, Jason Preston and Michael Bean. I’m calling them pro-bloggers because they have managed to attract and retain a very loyal community that by any standards qualifies them as influential people in their circles. How do they do it? [...]

There are many (really, MANY) companies out there that provide some pretty sophisticated tracking tools for social media. Most of them cost money, though.  So if you have to boot-strap, here are a list of tools I’ve used. You can use some of this and make yourself  scorecard of indicators (the value of those indicators [...]