AIM Group | February 25, 2009 | Uncategorized
Quotes of the day from the Inland Press Association Key Executives Conference in San Antonio this week:--- “Just two years ago the concern of the industry...
AIM Group | February 25, 2009 | Uncategorized
SAN ANTONIO, Texas --- Great sessions and surprisingly strong turnout this week for the Inland Press Association Key Executives Conference along the delightful...
AIM Group | February 27, 2009 | Real Estate
Lorna Borenstein is out at Move.com. The company has announced that its current president has has decided to leave the company effective March 13, 2009.Steven...
AIM Group | February 27, 2009 | Uncategorized
The closing of the Rocky Mountain News in Denver provides a rare glimpse into the numbers behind the collapse of classified advertising at just one (well, two,...
Peter M. Zollman | March 01, 2009 | Uncategorized
For newspapers participating in the Yahoo alliance, a key question the past few months,...
Brian Blum | March 02, 2009 | Uncategorized
For the last several years, user-generated content site Helium has amassed 1.2 million articles on topics from sports to spirituality. The site pays contributors...
Brian Blum | March 02, 2009 | Uncategorized
How far can Twitter mania go? Doctors at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit have now live Twittered a surgery to remove a cancerous tumor from a man's kidney.The...
AIM Group | March 03, 2009 | Marketplaces
Facebook today relaunched its classified Marketplace, intent on capturing the essence of the social-networking experience without ticking off millions of its users...
Brian Blum | March 03, 2009 | Uncategorized
A new report from Nielsen says that Internet viewers spent 15 percent more time watching video online in Q4 08 than in the previous quarter, for a total of just...
Brian Blum | March 04, 2009 | Uncategorized
“The currency of the medieval village was rumor, lies and slander, which is where democracy could return if news-gathering organizations, magazines and book...
Peter M. Zollman | March 05, 2009 | Uncategorized
Dave Morgan, whose roots in the newspaper and interactive-media communities run very deep, is launching a new company --- this time targeting television promotion...
ray marcano | March 05, 2009 | Uncategorized
EBay has quietly announced that it will change the confusing name of its classified site, Kijiji, to EBay Classified, bringing a better brand awareness to a site...
Brian Blum | March 05, 2009 | Uncategorized
Facebook has announced a number of changes which will affect both users and marketers.For users, the news feed will now update in real time rather than every 10-15...
Brian Blum | March 06, 2009 | Uncategorized
When my brother called at 7:30 AM, I knew something was wrong. We had already made a plan to speak at 8:00 PM that night to discuss some work we are doing...
admin3 | March 06, 2009 | Recruitment
Gabriel Bouchard, former VP & GM of Monster Canada, has been announced as the new president of Workopolis, Canada’s biggest job site — four days...
Peter M. Zollman | March 09, 2009 | Uncategorized
LAS VEGAS --- It’s a case of the dueling recruitment advertising meetings. At the...
Peter M. Zollman | March 09, 2009 | Uncategorized
LAS VEGAS --- Attendance at the Newspaper Association of America MediaXchange conference is...
Peter M. Zollman | March 10, 2009 | Uncategorized
LAS VEGAS -- Yahoo's new CEO Carol Bartz reiterated her company's commitment to working with newspapers during a private reception Monday for Newspaper Consortium...
Mark Whittaker | March 10, 2009 | Uncategorized
"Member communities," or social network sites, are now more popular than using e-mail among the worldwide community of Internet users, according a new report from...
Peter M. Zollman | March 11, 2009 | Uncategorized
LAS VEGAS --- Hiring new sales reps for outbound telephone sales? Hire for attitude, not for skills. That was the advice from Peter Ockerbloom, VP of display...
Peter M. Zollman | March 11, 2009 | Uncategorized
LAS VEGAS --- On the floor at the NAA MediaXchange conference, there were two eye-catching sites. Or maybe eight, depending on how you count. By far, the best...
Peter M. Zollman | March 11, 2009 | Uncategorized
LAS VEGAS --- Top two topics among the "new" products at the NAA conference? Video (not so new) and self-service ad placement (definitely not so new). But lots of...
Peter M. Zollman | March 11, 2009 | Uncategorized
LAS VEGAS --- Today's top attraction at the NAA MediaXchange was a new vendor, Reel Centric, which gave away a bright red Smart Passion coupe worth $14,635. Jurgen...
Peter M. Zollman | March 12, 2009 | Recruitment
CareerBuilder LLC is trying to recover $32.5 million in investments that it made in “auction-rate securities” recommended by Bank of America Corp., the...
ray marcano | March 16, 2009 | Uncategorized
Pick your favorite newspaper. Take a look at it online. Then, take a look at it on your mobile phone. In many cases, they look just about the same,...
bruce oren | March 16, 2009 | Uncategorized
Take a gander at The State of the News Media 2009, the sixth edition of an annual report on the health and status of American journalism from the Pew Research...
Peter M. Zollman | March 16, 2009 | Uncategorized
What do you do if you have a high-quality classified advertising business which generates about three-quarters of its revenue online and operates with margins of...
Brian Blum | March 17, 2009 | Uncategorized
It’s official now: The Seattle Post-Intelligencer is shutting down its print operation after today’s edition.Hearst announced yesterday that it would...
AIM Group | March 17, 2009 | Marketplaces
Why did Facebook -- the site everyone wants to emulate -- feel it necessary to redesign itself to make it more Twitterlike? Beats me. It's as though someone walked...
carla | March 18, 2009 | Uncategorized
According to a report released by Adfusion this week, American consumers seem to respond better to article-based advertising and are more likely to act on the...
