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  • How Progress Happens: Leading the Human Side of Change

    How Progress Happens: Leading the Human Side of Change

    via Culture

    Talking about change is easy – making change happen in most organizations is ridiculously hard.

  • From Wikis to Ruby on Rails; How to Produce Content the Open Source Way

    From Wikis to Ruby on Rails; How to Produce Content the Open Source Way

    via Business, Culture

    New media producers are now the beneficiaries of an innovative movement that offers continuously improved software – thanks to the open source community – that can deliver lower costs and high-quality features for web and mobile apps; video editing and distribution; audio recording, and collaborative applications.

  • Smart 21 Communities of 2010

    Smart 21 Communities of 2010

    via Business, Culture

    The Smart21 announcement is the first stage in ICF’s annual Intelligent Community Awards cycle. Based on nominations submitted by communities large and small from around the world, ICF selects 21 finalists with the potential to become one of the Forum’s Top Seven Intelligent Communities of the Year.

  • Media. Communication. Protest.

    via Culture

    Over the past decade groups around the world have utilized Internet communication technologies during crisis to broadcast their message to local and global communities. We take three case studies to see how this has been done. In the process we see that over the years, the ability to harness Internet communications is moving from organizations to anyone with actual Internet access.

  • BUILDING DIGITAL ENTERTAINMENT BRANDS

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    HOW TO PROFIT IN THE MULTI-PLATFORM UNIVERSE
    A Conversation With Fred Seibert, President & Executive Producer, Frederator Studios
    The development of profitable digital media ventures relies as much on knowing when the next wave will hit as it does on creating sustainable revenue models. In some respects, the first decade of the 21st-century belongs to the media [...]

  • Hollywood and the Digital Consumer

    via Business, Culture

    The next generation of technology within the digital home will bring with it not only more content to the consumer, it will bring with it greater choice and more individual personalization into the process.

  • Reinventing the Ad Model Through Discovery and Targeting

    via Culture

    While advertising has emerged as the primary business model for broadband video, it remains relatively immature. Key constraints include users’ inability to find the videos they seek and limitations on targeting ads against particular content.

  • HOME MADE

    via Culture

    Is it possible to create an eco-friendly label? What would fashion world look like if it took ecological and economic issues into consideration?

  • Inside the NYPD: The Hudson River Crash

    Inside the NYPD: The Hudson River Crash

    via Culture, ScribeTribe

    In this power podcast/mini-doc, we follow the heroic members of the NYPD’s Air-Sea Rescue, Scuba and Emergency Service Units as they come together in a time of crisis, under dangerous inclement weather conditions and get a job done… saving 155 lives in the process.

  • Social Networks Protest Rose Art Museum Closing

    via Culture, SMAC

    Brandeis threatens to close the Rose Museum and online social networking groups form in protest.