Save the Media

Tweet It’s that time of year again. A time to reflect back and look forward. I think it’s also a good time to review what posts from Save the Media captured the most attention — and traffic in the past year. Here are the top posts on Save the Media in 2011, based on pageviews. [...]

Tweet So 2010 has come and gone. In case you missed some of the most popular posts on Save the Media during 2010, here is a list of the posts that my readers clicked on the most. Enjoy reading ones you missed or taking a walk down memory lane and re-reading your favorites. You can [...]

Tweet Today I’m again handing my blog over to veteran journalist Amber Smith, a friend and former colleague of mine at The Post-Standard in Syracuse. In her free time, she blogs about dementia at DementiAwareness. She offers Part 2 of how old-time journalism relates to  the changing world of media. As a veteran-journalist-but-newbie-blogger, I’m learning [...]

Tweet  I’d say the Syracuse BizBuzz Social Media Conference this week was a great success. The buzz was about 325 people showed up. The whole experience was pretty exciting — to be around so many people who want to get more connected and engaged online. A few hiccups, of course: WiFi was really spotty in [...]

Tweet I am part of what I think is a pretty exciting event going on this week in my hometown of Syracuse. The Syracuse Biz Buzz is the area’s first major social media conference.  The keynot speaker is Dave Evans, author of “Social Media Marketing: An Hour a Day.”   A slew of presentations are planned, [...]

Tweet Haven’t done short-takes for a while, so seems like it is time for my list of interesting stuff from around the blogosphere. Great blogs: I love lists. I think they are a very useful way to convey a lot of information quickly in a format that’s easy to read.  Journalistics has compiled a great [...]

Tweet Time for some short-takes, my version of cool stuff you should read from around the journo/techie blogosphere: Measuring your site’s value: With all the tools available to measure the worth of  your blog or news site, it can get confusing. Are page views more important than unique visitors? Would you rather have fewer visitors [...]

Tweet More than a year ago, Brian Stelter had a story in The New York Times about how the social media generation takes it upon themselves to pass on the news they feel is worthwhile. The story contained a seminal quote from an unidentified college student that has become iconic of the new journalism evolving [...]

Tweet News organizations, take note:  More women than men are using social media, a new study says. The study, from Information is Beautiful, uses Google Ad Planner numbers to come up with its conclusion that more women than men use many popular social networks. Digg stands out because 64 percent of users are men. Linked-In [...]

Tweet When Greg Munno started CNYSpeaks in June 2008, he was the civic engagement editor for the Syracuse Post-Standard in Upstate New York. Inspired by the Philadelphia Inquirer’s Great Expectations project, CNYSpeaks was aimed at rallying the Syracuse community around the idea of improving the city, and it included a blog, news stories and residents’ forums. [...]