A Brief History of Children's Picturebooks and the Art of Visual Storytelling
by Maria Popova From cave paintings to Maurice Sendak, or what modern ebooks can learn from mid-century design icons. Back in the fifteenth century, Leonardo da Vinci made the following remark about visual storytelling: And you who wish to represent by words the form of man and all the aspects of his membrification, relinquish that idea.
The Value Equation: Curators and Aggregators
More data and information are available to more people today. Yet, the science and art of seeing patterns, zooming on what matters, connecting the dots, and betting on the right futures that can make or break a business still depend on the ability to filter, sort, interpret, and make decisions. All characteristics of human intervention. In a business, you look closely at the profit and loss (P&L), the actual representation of what is happening, not just at what is possible. It's the same conversation with people.
Content Curation Primer
Photo by Stuck in Customs What is Content Curation? Content curation is the process of sorting through the vast amounts of content on the web and presenting it in a meaningful and organized way around a specific theme. The work involves sifting, sorting, arranging, and publishing information.
Google’s Gingras: ‘The future of journalism can and will be better than its past’
The following address was given by Richard Gingras, director of news and social products at Google, as the opening keynote of the annual conference of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) on August 9, 2012 in Chicago. I’m honored by the opportunity to speak here tonight. When it comes to the future of journalism, there is no more important audience than the one in this room. It is you who will nurture, guide, and enable those who invent journalism’s future. We can talk tonight about the emerging news ecosystem.
What happens online in 60 seconds?
Our '60 seconds' infographic visualises what happens in just one minute on the web. The number of Google searches, Facebook posts and WhatsApp messages sent in a mere 60 seconds is truly phenomenal! First published last year, we've now updated it for 2017, showing the statistics for the past three years. Digital media presents a huge opportunity for marketers, but you need quality content to compete online. Read more about how to manage content marketing to overcome 'content shock' in our free managing Content Marketing in 2016 research report we published with HubSpot. Managing Content Shock in 2017
9 Real-Life Rules For Creating Shareable Content
If social media is a cocktail party, then all the great gossip, funny stories and interesting tidbits you hear at that party are the kinds of content we’re all striving to create. People share information online for the same reasons they share in real life. The good news?
CW Bulletin Papacosta
Some evenings, as 9 p.m. draws near, I feel like relaxing with a little TV. What to watch? Scrolling through my cable provider’s crammed program listings only frustrates me, so I rely on my partner Dave—an avid TV fan.
Content Curation Is Listening and Engaging
Content curation is the organizing, filtering and “making sense of” information on the web and sharing the very best pieces of content that you’ve cherry picked with your network. But finding and organizing the information is only half of the task. As Mari Smith points out in this video about why curation is important and some tools for doing it.
Predictions for digital journalism in 2013
We asked seven industry experts to share their predictions for digital journalism in 2013. They are key figures from the New York Times, WSJ.com, FT.com, the Daily Post, plus an academic, the founder social news agency Storyful, and a leader in B2B who is also chair of the Association of Online Publishers. There are predictions around mobile, paywalls, social media platforms and more. If you would prefer to hear them explain their predictions, you can listen to them speaking in this podcast.
Top 10 Social Networking Sites by Market Share of Visits [July 2017] @DreamGrow
Data updated on: August 7, 2017 Take a look at the interactive chart with more than 10 years of data. Q&A site Quora is now on the list for some time now and it stalled losing a little ground from its peak of 0.76%. Quora, is a perfect match for this list but it wasn’t even around when we first started publishing this list as it was founded in June 2009. Quora is in the tenth position with 0.74% market share of visits.
Incorporating Personal Learning Networks into Course Projects
Last semester I introduced a brand new project into my social media class which I’ve been meaning to report on for a while now. I decided to set 25% of the final grade aside for an assignment the students were allowed to design themselves (the project is described in detail here). The idea was to help students develop independent learning skills by teaching them how to use social media tools to create a personal learning network (PLN) capable of supporting their project goals. Students were able to tailor the assignment to their own learning needs by: identifying an area of social media or PR they wanted to learn more aboutoutlining a plan of study, anddeciding on appropriate learning deliverables to demonstrate their mastery of the material.
