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Posted by boakes on Jan 28, 2017 in Business, Content Strategy, Newspapers, Social Media | Comments Off on News is Dead, Long Live the News

There have never been more ways to get your news than there is today. Each generation has seen its “new media moment” from the newspapers,...

Not long after writing about my respect for Snapchat and their foray into the news publishing world, Deadline Hollywood (yet another news...

Posted by boakes on Nov 12, 2012 in Content Management, Digital Publishing, Social Media, Strategy | Comments Off on We Won’t Get Fooled Again

Hurricane Sandy brought devastation to the east coast, and with it, amazing stories and even more amazing images. The problem was, a lot...

Posted by boakes on Feb 22, 2012 in Business, Content Marketing, Digital Publishing, Social Media | Comments Off on Cisco Predicts 10 billion Devices on the Network by 2016

10 billion devices online (by 2016) and all he needed to meet her was to turn around. Still, a clever little cartoon by Cisco released...

Posted by boakes on Jan 17, 2012 in Business, Content Management, Content Marketing, Digital Publishing, Newspapers, Social Media | Comments Off on The Lessons of Digital Content – Where is the Paperboy?

We’re past the point of just dabbling with content on the Internet. Gone are the days of pontificating “Content is...

Posted by boakes on Nov 6, 2011 in Business, Digital Publishing, Newspapers, Social Media | Comments Off on Editors, Algorithms, and the New Media

I had a very enjoyable and informative breakfast with a good friend the other day. He’s the editor of a large suburban newspaper in...