Too bad we’re losing Picnik – the online photo editor from Google that’s shutting down. (According to Mashable, they will close on April 19, but premium services are free until then.) Luckily for all of us, there are other alternatives. Thanks to this post – a reprint from International Journalists Network – there are other online photo editors […]
Why do donors give? Allyson Kapin at Frogloop has a good post up with some recent research.
I love to play the slots on social networks. All it takes is coming up with something timely, juicy or clever (not always easy…), posting it to Twitter, Facebook, Stumbleupon or other platforms and then watching how many likes, shares, re-tweets, clicks or other responses I get. (Ta da. They really like me!)
But in the bigger scheme of things the numbers really don’t mean that much. (Damn.) When it comes to new media, it’s not just size that matters. Think: impact.
My first introduction to new media happened in a conference room in DC in 2006. Huge thanks to Pete Leyden, then director of the New Politics Institute and his keynote (hadn’t heard of it) presentation on the monumental changes taking place in technology, media and demographics. Part of NDN’s new tools campaign to help “progressives understand the transformation of politics” was, quite frankly, stunning.
