Dorian Benkoil, the host of the WebTV series Naked Media, is a principal at Teeming Media, a digital media events, research and editorial business consultancy.
Archive for Dorian Benkoil
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Media Summit, Live From New York
Check out the live stream of Digital Hollywood’s Media Summit from McGraw Hill building in NY. We will be grabbing on-camera interviews as can, as well, for Naked Media, most with host Dorian Benkoil.
Check out stream and catch the interviews here.
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Homer Simpson, Ford and Jarvis
When the Ford exec stood up and started talking all about social media at the Digiday Social conference, I tweeted a challenge to him: Sure, you’re tweeting with customers, and training your top execs who are learning all about social platforms, and relating personally with customers. But what about doing what Jeff Jarvis recommends in [...]
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From a Knowledge- to a Relationship Economy
At the Digiday Social conference today, Alan Brody of iBreakfast conjectured that we’re moving into a “relationship economy” that’s replacing the current “knowledge economy.” (Made me think of Howard Lindzon’s Social Leverage — his thesis, in a nutshell, that using relationships and “leveraging” their power is now beating the concept of “financial leverage.”) [...]
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Mossberg: Amazon’s iPhone Book App Beats the Kindle
OK, so Amazon has fulfilled its promise and made Kindle books available on at least one smartphone, the iPhone. And the WSJ’s tech uber-reviewer Walt Mossberg think the iPhone app beats the Kindle book reader in a couple ways:
In two key respects, using the iPhone app seems superior to using a Kindle. First, the iPhone’s [...] -
‘Naked Media’ at Noon: The Business of Business Media
Join us Monday, March 9, at noon ET, for “Naked Media (The Business of Media, Uncovered).” This espisode’s topic: Remaking the Business of Business Media: the shakeups wrought by StockTwits and other digital distruptors amid BusinessWeek’s big bet on new Web strategies even as the magazine, like all its competition — struggles mightily to stay afloat.
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Our (We) Media Dissonance
Naked Media has partnered with We Media, where Dorian is covering the event and will be filing here and at WeMedia.com.
The sky is falling! Newspapers aren’t going to survive. They’re declaring bankruptcy en masse. The Seattle Post Intelligencer is the latest considering going digital-only, I was told last night at We Media, along with the [...] -
Reinventing Business Media – Stocktwits and Business Week
On the next Naked Media, March 3, noon ET
John Byrne, Executive Editor, Businessweek.com (and inveterate blogger and multi-book author)
Howard Lindzon, co-founder, StockTwits, and also the inventor of Wallstrip and also an inveterate blogger
Just when we need it most, the business and financial press is in dire straits. Business magazines are fighting to stay alive. Stock [...] -
Finance for Media Professionals
Come to our Naked Media Seminar Event: How do you turn your CFO into an ally and get to “yes” for more of your projects? Your ability to get funding for creative projects requires that you understand how companies financially make decisions. After taking this course, you will improve your understanding and awareness of the [...]
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The Death of ‘Web 2.0′ Shows Its Acceptance
Robin Wauters on TechCrunch talks about the end of “Web 2.0″ as a term, and ponderswhat the decline in use of the term means (giving some evidence as to why it’s declining).
But as “Web 2.0″ declines as a term, that doesn’t mean that what Tim O’Reilly was describing in coining the phrase is declining, as [...] -
‘We Media’ Gets Naked
Welcome ‘We Media’ visitors. Catch our “Naked Media” show page here.
We at Naked Media have partnered with We Media, which is having their yearly conference starting Feb. 24 in Miami. This year, they’re giving Game Changer awards (which Naked Media host Dorian is helping with, writing essays on the winners you’ll see there soon) and [...]

