Preparing For Digital Media's Evolution

How Publishers Can Ready Themselves For Digital Media's Evolution
Forbes
As the media industry rolls towards 2012, changes to the traditional publishing model will emerge faster than most people realize. Content consumption behaviors are already evolving and in this rapidly changing environment there exists opportunities ...

Forbes

Pivotshare Believes Your Digital Media Is Worth Money
Fast Company
BY Lydia Dishman Wed Dec 21, 2011 Pivotshare wants you to make money on your digital media. The social content creation platform isn't aiming to be the next YouTube. Founder Adam Mosam says he wants experts, businesses and enthusiasts to dust off their ...

Social Media Boosts Fortunes At WTHR
NetNewsCheck.com
In many markets, digital media have spawned audacious, independent news outlets that complement — and sometimes compete with — their print and broadcast forbears. But in Indianapolis, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, et al have become favored tools of the ...

Chicago Sun-Times Has a New Owner
New York Times (blog)
By TANZINA VEGA 10:53 pm | Updated A new company called Wrapports, which has a strong focus on digital media, has agreed to buy The Chicago Sun-Times and more than 40 other media properties from Sun-Times Media Holdings, the new company said on ...

WWE(R) 'Digital Company of the Year'
MarketWatch (press release)
With the constant evolution of social and digital media, it allows WWE and our Superstars and Divas to expand our interaction and storylines in new meaningful ways." WWE, a publicly traded company /quotes/zigman/250106/quotes/nls/wwe WWE -1.57% , is an ...

Buyers in dark over web TV features
Financial Times
By Tim Bradshaw, Digital Media Correspondent Millions of people in the UK are expected to unwrap an internet-ready television set on Christmas day – but industry watchers fear the majority are unlikely to plug them into their broadband connections due ...

Multichannel retailing: Why House of Fraser relies on digital media in concept ...
Screenmediamag.com
For customers visiting the latest store format developed by British retailer House of Fraser, digital out-of-home media are not just an enhancement to the experience – they lie at the very heart of the shopping process. The two new concept stores, ...

Games start-ups losing ground
Financial Times
By Tim Bradshaw, Digital Media Correspondent Facebook's ranking of the most popular games on the social network revealed that larger developers such as Walt Disney's Playdom, Zynga and Electronic Arts are stretching their lead over smaller start-ups. ...

Social Media, Digital Signage Grabs Student Attention on College Network
mediacaster
Gorrie Marketing Services (GMS), a digital media company and Scala Certified Partner based in Mississauga, delivered the turn-key solution that included Scala 5 and Designer software, Samsung LCD displays, network installation, content design ...

Private equity firm to acquire Telestream
Broadcast Engineering
Telestream (www.telestream.net), a Nevada City, CA-based based provider of video transcoding and digital media software systems, has agreed to be acquired by private equity investment firm Thoma Bravo (with offices in Chicago and San Francisco) in ...

Broadcast Engineering

Richardville's film bill now law
Monroe Evening News
Richardville's legislation into law to create the Michigan Film and Digital Media Production Assistance Program. Senate Bill 569, now Public Act 291 of 2011, prescribes criteria for awarding film incentives appropriated as part of the annual budget ...

More of the Most-Requested Apps Make NOOK Tablet(TM) and NOOK(TM) Color Even ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Barnes & Noble's Newest NOOK Apps(TM): Massively Popular Words With Friends and Soon, Plants Vs. Zombies(TM) and Twitter Barnes & Noble, Inc. /quotes/zigman/132169/quotes/nls/bks BKS -1.49% , the leading retailer of content, digital media and ...

What to expect when buying media on retail websites
Econsultancy (blog)
Not long ago, it was unheard of for a brand or agency to be purchasing digital mediaon a retailer's website. However, with the amount of cross-channel shopping that consumers are doing, and with the amount of influence that websites have on in-store...

Econsultancy (blog)

Baker & Taylor's Innovative Axis 360 Brings Enhanced Digital Services to King ...
PR Newswire (press release)
Axis 360 is a revolutionary digital media platform, providing libraries and their patrons with a state-of-the-art system for circulating enhanced digital content and Blio, the ground-breaking ereading software. Libraries using the Axis 360 service ...

Study: Banks lag in digital marketing, customer engagement
BtoB Magazine
Only 19% of bank marketers believe they are doing a good job of leveraging the timeliness and value of digital media in their customer engagement programs, according to a new study by the Chief Marketing Officer Council. Further, according to the CMO ...

From YouTube to Facebook, New Digital Targeting Helps Romney Campaign Reach Voters
techPresident
"We've made a very conscious decision to reach out to folks who might otherwise miss our message," said Zac Moffatt, the Romney campaign's digital media director. Moffatt is working with his old colleagues at the Republican digital strategy consulting...

techPresident

Top Five Green-Car Stories Of 2011: MPGs...
Green Car Reports
In the digital media... Read More Yep, it's almost the end of the year, which means reams of roundup stories from all your favorite auto websites. Nope, we're not that different: We've got one too. Here's our take on the five most important stories--or ...

Amazon opens Best of Digital store to drive content discovery
Fiercemobilecontent
According to Amazon.com, Christmas Day is historically the company's biggest day for digital media sales, followed by Dec. 26. Between Dec. 24 and Dec. 30 of 2010, Amazon customers purchased three times the amount of digital content bought during an ...

Jane Stevens: The 'Revolution' of Social Media and Local News
Street Fight
“We bulldozed the barriers between community and journalists,” as I wrote in an article about the EPPY award for the Knight Digital Media Center. “We tore down the wall between the newsroom and advertising. We jettisoned the old print advertising model ...

Street Fight

BBC Radio 3 offers surround sound Christmas
Telegraph.co.uk
By Emma Barnett, Digital Media Editor The result is 'quadraphonic sound' or, as it is better known, surround sound. The interesting part of the experiment is that listeners do not require any extra special kit to access the immersive experience. ...

Telegraph.co.uk

Smartphone meets tablet: Are you ready to hold this giant phone up to your ear?
GeekWire
The director of the UW's Master of Communications in Digital Media program makes calls on the giant Android phone using a Bluetooth headset. We cajoled him into posing like this when we met up last night. But it makes the point: This thing is a phone, ...

GeekWire

Times Co. could turn to tech sector for new leadership
PRWeek
PR industry experts say the company has made smart investments in digital media, including the use of video and infographics, but some say it has not moved – or innovated – quickly enough. Michael Levitz, SVP, partner, and director of digital at ...

Getty Images' “unauthorized use fees” border on mobster-like extortion
The Next Web
Getty Images, the “leading provider of digital media worldwide, creating and distributing a range of assets that help communicators around the globe tell their stories” sound like a big bunch of mobsters. Let me tell you why: So, I get an email from a ...

The Next Web

Content Media Corp PLC : Content Media Corporation PLC - Interim Results
4-traders (press release)
Initial results from this business have been encouraging with several new projects having been acquired and others being developed positively § Spirit digital media is performing in line with expectations and has been achieving promising levels of ...

LeapFrog Announces License Agreement to Distribute Digital Entertainment From ...
Sacramento Bee
"We're thrilled that kids and families have a new way to engage with the innovative programming inspired by our rich portfolio of beloved brands, such as 'My Little Pony Friendship is Magic,'" said Mark Blecher, senior vice president of Digital Media ...

VIP LiveWire: StrategyEye Digital Media tracks the buzz
VIP publishes business information product reviews and news analysis.
VIP LiveWire

5 game-changing digital media trends in 2011
By Rob O'Regan
Aside from the obvious headline-grabbing events that influenced journalism and digital media in 2011 – the death of Steve Jobs, News Corp.'s phone-hacking scandal, and a steady stream of executive changes across major media and tech ...
eMedia Vitals

CDMN | Canadian Digital Media Network » ICF Launches First ...
By Andrea Wahbe
Among the goals of the Institute will be to chronicle and study the community's transformation to adigital media economy. The Institutes of the Intelligent Community Forum are local research institutions established in partnership with ICF by ...
CDMN | Canadian Digital Media Network

teletekwire » Thoma Bravo to Acquire Telestream to Accelerate ...
By Sub Editor
Telestream®, the leading provider of video transcoding and digital media software solutions, today announced that leading private equity investment firm Thoma Bravo, LLC has entered into a definitive agreement to purchase Telestream, Inc. ...
teletekwire

Deloitte: Consumers turn to Digital Media as Economy Pressures ...
By Michael Foster
2011 saw the continuing trend of rising prices for energy and food, leading consumers to have less discretionary income, according to a new Deloitte study.
Big4.com

sifteo cubes in the humanities classroom « loriemerson.net
By Lori Emerson
The second course I frequently teach is called “Introduction to Digital Media for Humanities” which serves as a humanities-based introduction to digital media structures such as the digital archive and reading/writing software that fundamentally ...
loriemerson.net

NASSP Announces Digital Principal Award « Virtual School ...
By mkbnl
Volumes have been written about the potential for digital media to transform schools. Far less has been said about the role of principals in overseeing that transformation. To highlight the principal's crucial role in technology-enabled school ...
Virtual School Meanderings

Opportunities for Writers in Canada (and Soon the US and Other ...
By Tessa
It turns out that Canada, in digital media terms, is more interesting than you might think. Not only is it a hotbed of piracy (because the legislation needed to curtail piracy doesn't exist there) but a fledging initiative to support writers of webisodes ...
eChook Digital Publishing

Book Review: Online Marketing by Murray Newlands - All-you-need ...
By Dan Purvis
... appetite for learning about all things digital and am fascinated with how the online landscape has been completely revolutionised over the last 18-24 months, propelling social and digital media to the heart of all Communications strategies. ...
Meltwater Blog

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