The New Media Sphere

CULT2001

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craigslist in Deep Space

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Today craigslist, global leader in local classifieds and online community, announced plans to offer its users the opportunity to have their postings transmitted trillions of miles beyond the confines of the Solar System. craigslist currently handles 5 million earthly postings each month, from 8 million humans, in 99 cities and 19 countries on the planetary surface.

The Business Of Blogging

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Adrants: Message Boards Missed Marketing Opportunity

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A reader fans the embers of a simmering issue with us and that is company's inability to engage in conversation with its customer base. We're not saying all communication has to be a conversation because there are certainly times when a little one way shouting is the best way the market. But with the proliferation of online forums and message boards for every conceivable topic, brand and product, it's a mystery why marketers have not jumped on this goldmine of customer contact.

Hamilton College - New Media and the Liberal Arts College - Learning Strategies

Learning Strategies - This session addresses the use of new media within specific disciplines. Access to a wide range of text based and image based materials challenges the traditional constraints of the classroom. Examples of disciplinary applications will be provided in order to address the ways in which digital forms of presentation result in new literacies. Hamilton College - New Media and the Liberal Arts College - Learning Strategies

USA All The Way is the Best Olympic Blog

USA All The Way blog is the best thing to come around in a long time: "USAALLTHEWAY would like its readers to know that we do not condone drug abuse of any sort, and believe athletes who use performance enhancing substances should be restricted from competing in their respective sport forever. These cheaters deserve to be humiliated and mocked. That said, USAALLTHEWAY believes Torrie Edwards is innocent until proven guilty" and "Johnny and I have a friend who managed to finagle his way over to Athens!!! He will be providing gossip, hearsay, scandal and other forms of inside information as we continue to cover the major stories of the day... "

Loins.com is Born of Beatiful Ideas and Perfect Things, The Fruit of our Collective Loins

Loins.com seems to have finally launched, slowly but surely. Although I am not quite sure where it is headed, it seems to be willing to share a little bit: We here at Loins have but one goal which is to become a resource for all the beautiful ideas and perfect things that were born, are being born, and shall be born. In essence, the fruit of our collective loins. From Loins.com

Diagnosis: Critical, costly - 2004-05-10 - Washington Business Journal

Health insurance pricey, choices skimpy for small employers forced to cut costs
but for CEO Pete Snyder, it's a decision that is really no decision at all. Despite skyrocketing premiums year after year -- up 30 percent in 2003 alone -- Snyder can't stop providing health insurance for his 39 workers. Diagnosis: Critical, costly - 2004-05-10 - Washington Business Journal

Hawthorne Effect

Individual behaviors may be altered because they know they are being studied was demonstrated in a research project (1927 - 1932) of the Hawthorne Plant of the Western Electric Company in Cicero, Illinois. This series of research, first led by Harvard Business School professor Elton Mayo along with associates F.J. Roethlisberger and William J. Dickson started out by examining the physical and environmental influences of the workplace (e.g. brightness of lights, humidity) and later, moved into the psychological aspects (e.g. breaks, group pressure, working hours, managerial leadership). The ideas that this team developed about the social dynamics of groups in the work setting had lasting influence - the collection of data, labor-management relations, and informal interaction among factory employees. Hawthorne Effect

Google for Organic and MSN for Paid

Internet users are more likely to click on an organic search link on Google, and a paid search result on MSN, a report from iProspect finds. The online survey of 1,649 individuals, conducted by the search engine marketing firm, in conjunction with Survey Sampling International, WebSurveyor, and Stratagem Research, revealed how Internet users rely on search results -- information helpful to marketers hoping to better focus their campaign efforts. "Given Google's traffic dominance in general, the survey definitely suggests that companies who are not engaged in natural SEO [search engine optimization] are missing a tremendous opportunity. If 70 percent of the clicks are occurring in the natural results, many advertisers are losing clicks to their competitors who have invested in natural SEO."