Lisa Padilla on Media and Culture

Read this if: 1. you are a blogger, or micro-blogger, you use social media like Facebook, you Tube, Twitter, Posterous, Wordpress, or other Web 2.0 companies with overly cute names, 2. you found yourself at a dead end or limit within your blogging or media distribution software service, or 3. you know your business goal but can't find a way to reach it using the tools you have now. I would like your thoughts for an upcoming project that will adress as many of these issues as we can, empowering businesses of any size, from 1-person to hundred, take advantage of the real-time web, and give you a set of tools that make doing business easier, period. A. What do you wish your blogging platform, or service, did for you today? B. What's missing in terms or tools or features? C. Is social media working for you? Are you using it? Is it included in your blog or on your web site? D. What's the biggest challenge you face: marketing, community management, customer relationship managemen...

Earlier than projected, BNO News launched news wire service focused on "providing comprehensive breaking news coverage to news media companies around the world." Msnbc.com will be the first of the service's new clients. This is a telling step in the direction of what are critical media and newspaper organizations transforming themselves into a new type of news reporting. This is one that will ultimately be more accurate and comprehensive, but that will bring it's own challenges, yet the information dissemination, democratic involvement and the anticipatory services that will begin to surface will unwrap a significant communications shift, and subsequently, a multitude of world and cultural views and interaction changes. BNO and many others are helping build in this direction. You can follow them at @BreakingNews on Twitter and through their iPhone application (BNO Breaking News). The service puts together Twitter updates and headlines from other sources, "up-t...