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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 financial information available in any media company, and learn how to improve decision-making and performance management.

Segway inventor Dean Kamen once said about entrepreneurs, “It’s not that they’re brilliant or well-educated…They work all the time. They don’t let failure demoralize or destroy them. They pick themselves up and keep going and eventually, every once in a while, one of your ideas actually breaks through and works, and makes all that stuff seem worthwhile.”

Mike Miller of Offerpal talks about creating opportunities for advertisers to connect with social media users by integrating advertisers into online games and offering virtual currency that users can spend on both virtual and real goods.

The Huffington Post raised $25 million in a single investment from Oak Investment Partners.

Video: In what some analysts are predicting will become a $95 billion industry in the next few years, what are the best opportunities for enterprise-oriented publishers to take advantage of cloud computing’s cost-effective strengths for the enterprise? Is cloud computing a boon for publishers or is this just another complication in trying to define premium value points for enterprise content audiences?

The Irish Times interviews ScribeMedia’s Michael Cervieri and asks if there’s a future in print.

Audio: Churches all across the world have been finding uses for video to communicate their message and connect to their community.

Joe Scarborough, host of “Morning Joe” on MSNBC and former Republican Congressman, had the best line of the evening. “I know this is the heart of Palin Country,” Scarborough told a roomful of New Yorkers gathered at the Rainbow Room in Manhattan for a panel discussion titled, ‘The Media & The Presidency.’  (I loathe Scarborough’s politics, but [...]

We’re often asked how the malaise in the global economy affects our appetite for new deals. These past few months have been harrowing for nearly every segment of the economy. Governments across the world are coordinating in an effort to intervene aggressively and revive the credit markets. You would be hard pressed at this point to find people who are not worried about the state of the economy and its impact on their immediate community.

Spending online by local advertisers, which has grown at a whopping 47% this year, is expected to diminish to a paltry 7.8% in 2009, according to a 2009 report from Borrell Associates.

“Local media companies projecting doubel-digit and even triple-digit increases in their interactive budget next year will have a very difficult time meeting those expectations [...]