Media Bistro Tops For the Creative Industry

October 28, 2008 by jangordon  
Filed under Networking Online

Listed as a Forbes Best of the Web, MediaBistro is dedicated to anyone who creates or works with content, or who is a non-creative professional working in a content/creative industry. Great for editors, writers, television producers, graphic designers, book publishers, people in production, and circulation departments – in industries including magazines, television, radio, newspapers, book publishing, online media, advertising, PR, and graphic design. The site’s mission is to provide online and offline opportunities for meeting each other, sharing resources, becoming informed of job opportunities in media industries.

Twitter Goes Mainstream

October 28, 2008 by jangordon  
Filed under Breaking News

According to a great article in the Wall Street Journal, businesses around the world are finding multiple uses for the tool Twitter.

“Doctors are using Twitter to update patients about office hours. Local groups such as the Los Angeles Fire Department are using it to share details about service calls with interested residents, occasionally with graphic descriptions of the victims’ conditions. And dozens of major companies, like computer maker Dell Inc., use Twitter to share deals and product news with people who sign up for the service.”

Get the full article here.

This article is just one of several from a top-notch series of articles from the Wall Street Journal for Monday, October 27, 2008:

Time to Leave the Laptop Behind

TV + Social Network=?

Mining for Gold: Sean Kelley discusses how Deutsche Asset Management sorts through the clutter of information to gain an edge

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