Part 1/9: Fred Wilson, Partner at Union Square Ventures, on "The Merging of Content With Technology"
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Part 1/9: Fred Wilson, Partner at Union Square Ventures, on "The Merging of Content With Technology"
Fred Wilson, Founding Partner at Union Square Ventures, spoke to The Publishing Point in May 2010 on "Style, Design and Voice: The Merging of Content with Technology." Fred was named #1 on the Business Insider's Silicon Alley 100 list and is one of…
Part 1/6: Jack Dorsey, Co-Founder of Twitter, Speaks to the Publishing Point, 4/14/10
Jack Dorsey, Co-founder of Twitter and Founder of Square, discusses how Twitter and other digital innovations are transforming publishing as we know it.
Seth Godin on Declining Happiness of Kindle Owners
A day or two ago we tweeted a link to a post from the New York Times' Nick Bilton on the declining happiness of Kindle owners. Although Jeff Bezos claims that Amazon "start[s] with the customer and...work[s] backward,” Bilton shows that the number of unhappy Kindle owners has grown with each iteration of the device.Seth Godin posted a…See More
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Part 7/7: Mike Shatzkin, "Planning for a Long Career in an Indstury that's Changing"
"More Takeaways: Publishers seem to feel that it is time to confront Amazon and other ebook retailers now over pricing rather than waiting until the ebook business is too big and too established; publishers costs to create and distribute an ebook are…"
Pete Nikolai commented on Maggie Hilliard's videoPart 7/7: Mike Shatzkin, "Planning for a Long Career in an Indstury that's Changing"
"***this one downloads much slower than the other six and I was not patient enough to make it past the first couple of minutes*** Takeaways: Amazon has actually been subsidizing the Kindle customer's purchases by pricing many titles lower than…"
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Part 6/7: Mike Shatzkin, "Planning for a Long Career in an Industry that's Changing"
"Takeaways: digital content is free if the consumer decides they want to take it; magazines, newspapers, and record companies insisted on selling products that aggregated considerably more content than the consumer wanted to buy (consumer wanted one…"
Pete Nikolai commented on Maggie Hilliard's videoPart 5/7: Mike Shatzkin, "Planning for a Long Career in an Industry that's Changing"
"Takeaways: vertical community organizers do more than offer products on a particular subject--they focus on getting people to join the community and maximizing the benefits to the members even if that means offering competitors' products; those…"
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Publishing Point Talk: Co-Founder of Foursquare on "Developing Fun"
We have a real treat for you in July: Co-founder of Foursquare and an expert in mobile apps, Naveen Selvadurai will discuss key ingredients that go into creating a fun digital experience. He’ll also pinpoint common mistakes (and what works) in the design of mobile apps and will fill us in on the story behind Foursquare.
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Posted on July 1, 2010 at 8:00am
Publishing Point Talk with EVP Digital at Martha Stewart Gail Horwood on "Leveraging Social Media to Build Your Brand"
I'm excited to announce that Gail Horwood, Executive Vice President,
Digital Programming and Strategy for Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia,
will speak to the Publishing Point on June 30 in New York City about
Martha Stewart's award-winning social media campaigns.
She'll share social media strategy, audience building tactics and the metrics for measuring social media success. She'll review specific
examples and case studies of successful engagement across a… Continue
Digital Programming and Strategy for Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia,
will speak to the Publishing Point on June 30 in New York City about
Martha Stewart's award-winning social media campaigns.
She'll share social media strategy, audience building tactics and the metrics for measuring social media success. She'll review specific
examples and case studies of successful engagement across a… Continue
Posted on May 20, 2010 at 9:25am
The Publishing Point Hits 1000 Members
We're thrilled to
announce that The Publishing Point has just reached a major milestone:
we now have over 1000 members. It's been just over a year since we
kicked off the group with a talk by HarperCollins Editor-at-Large Debbie Stier and the response has been incredible.
We've loved bringing you a diverse lineup of great speakers--from Stanza Reader's… Continue
announce that The Publishing Point has just reached a major milestone:
we now have over 1000 members. It's been just over a year since we
kicked off the group with a talk by HarperCollins Editor-at-Large Debbie Stier and the response has been incredible.
We've loved bringing you a diverse lineup of great speakers--from Stanza Reader's… Continue
Posted on May 6, 2010 at 11:50am
Publishing Point Speakers Featured in New York Magazine
This week's New York Magazine cover story, Tweet Tweet Boom Boom, highlights social media startups in New York that are trying to build a better New York. We were thrilled (but not surprised!) to see past Publishing Point speaker David Karp, founder of Tumblr, featured in the article, which also talked… Continue
Posted on April 21, 2010 at 1:00pm
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