Really nice piece here, that breaks down the social nature of remix culture.
What's that you say? You don't even know what remix culture is?
You can be nerdy and read about it on Wikipedia, or you can just watch this video and be pleasantly surprised to find that you're probably more familiar with remix culture than you realize.
remix culture MIT anthropologist Grant McCracken makes the case for Chief Culture Officers. As a case study, McCracken cites Levi Strauss, which missed a billion dollars in revenue in the mid 1990s because it failed to recognize and capitalize on the urban baggy pants trend.
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No blood. No gore. No dismemberment. A convincing example that beauty can communicate just as effectively as shock value.
Nice work coming out of the UK from the Sussex Safer Roads Partnership.
Embrace Life, Sussex, seatbelts Here it is folks, a news report completely dissected for your How-To enjoyment. (Warning: f-bomb alert.)
Now that you know the basics, go on an embrace your inner Ron Burgundy. You stay classy.
charlie brooker, how-to Talking Twitter and Jobs with Local TV News from Hal Thomas on Vimeo.
This morning, BFG Communications' Sloane Kelley and I had the chance to talk Twitter and jobs with Jessica Kiss of WJCL and TheCoastalSource.com. It was nice to meet a traditional TV reporter who is clued in to what's happening in social media. Jessica is a stark contrast to Lyndy, the in-studio anchor, who leads out of the segment by recommending that viewers protect themselves by setting up "puppets" online (his word for fake identities; the antithesis of everything social media strives for).
You can read more of Jessica's reporting on this story here, or find more details on the back story of How I Landed My New Job Using Twitter here.
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