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Provide solutions to the problems that your stories create
Summary: In today’s information environment, making and selling a product is not a sustainable business. A product is not an end, but a beginning, and a gateway to the real business: providing services around that product.
Inspiration: A CNN story about Riversimple, a company from the U.K. that has come up with a hydrogen-powered, less-poluting city [...]
Also posted in Newsroomnext | Tagged business, cars, environment, information warfare, media, news, pollution, service | Leave a comment
A whole lot of good
Summary: Attention to product quality that goes unnoticed and unappreciated by your customer will consume resources that could be put to better use.
Source: A Harvard Business Review article from the May 2009 issue (p. 68 is relevant to this post) examining six mistakes companies make in managing capital. There’s a pay wall since the [...]
Posted in News Business | Tagged Harvard Business Review, information business, journalism, media theory, news, quality | Leave a comment
The $37.85 billion-dollar question
As newspapers hunt for new revenues, what exactly would they be selling to their customers if they started charging for their online information?
Or if I had an article in my pocket about a subject of my choosing, written in a way that I prefer, and I hinted at the content with nothing more than a [...]
Posted in News Business | Tagged business, customers, earnings, experiences, journalism, meaning, media, news, profits, Psychology, revenue, story, Storytelling | Leave a comment
The ways people use information / journalistic services that can be sold around them
I. Social: You are what you know and remember, and what others know and remember about you.
Forming groups of like interest / coordinate connections
Being in the know / personal topic guidance
Creating self-identity / ascribe values to information choices
Forming opinions / critiquing service
Sharing information (conversation, e-mail, clippings, recordings, etc.) to [...]
Also posted in Newsroomnext | Tagged information warfare, journalism, media, news, Newsroomnext, service | 1 Comment
Article in The Albuquerque Tribune: N.M. online journalists, bloggers predict how news will morph on the Web
When 17-year-old University of New Mexico freshman John Perry wants news about Albuquerque, he doesn’t pick up a paper. Instead, he visits four Web sites, one of which is run by volunteers, employs no journalists and isn’t trying to be a news organization.
It’s called Duke City Fix , and even though Perry enjoys the group [...]
Also posted in Newsroomnext, Portfolio | Tagged Albuquerque, Albuquerque Tribune, articles, business, journalism, media, New Mexico, news, newspaper, Portfolio | Leave a comment
Google’s chief economist explains value in era of endless info