Uh-oh. According to Mashable, LiveJournal, of blogging’s old warhorses, is in some big financial trouble: The company has reportedly laid off 20 of 28 employees,…
As the second in our series about the effective use of social media / social networking tools, this post focuses on Planet Money. At the…
Thanks for reading our The Learned Fangirl ! A year ago, we excitedly started this blog (three posts in a day? what were we thinking?),…
One of our areas of focus this year is the effective use of social media / social networking tools. At this point, we are planning…
Every [] user is a potential creator and consumer Summary: Clay Shirky’s Here Comes Everybody, more appropriately subtitled “the power of organizing without [traditional formalized]…
An essay by Valleywag writer Paul Boutin is proclaiming the death of the blog. It’s become too professionalized, is his argument. Clearly, in the age of…
Recently, the New York Times had an article about trolls and how their actions affect others online. Online trolling has often, though not always, been…
30 Aug: Hey Unemployed Media Professionals! Read This Post Before You Apply For An Online Media Job!
I’m a journalist by training and communications professional by trade. It’s a sucky time to be doing either of those things right now. A lot…
In several recent blog and news stories (including my favorite headline of the bunch: The Associated Press plays role of Metallica in Napster-esque war with…
I have a long history with Metallica, as they were essentially my introduction to the world of metal, along with other young Gen-X metal kids,…