There are many demographics that we try to reach. Sometimes you have a certain demographic you intentionally want to get to, but sometimes it’s a little wiser to figure out the demographic that is largest and then work a plan around that. Here is a great little graphic that shows the way most people are [...]
The Social Media Tsunami is Here
by John Boitnott on October 20, 2010 in Media Stuff, Social Media, Tech Culture, Television
It’s becoming more and more well known. The more clients I talk to, the more I hear that someone on their team is attending “Social media Bootcamp” or some such. This video perfectly illustrates why.
Boitnott Talks VVM New Year Goals on Larry Chiang Crunchup Video
by John Boitnott on January 2, 2010 in Fun Stuff, Media Stuff, Tech Culture
I have learned so much about my FICO score from Larry Chiang. But more than that, he is one of the nicest people I have met in the Bay Area tech community so far. When I went the latest Crunchup in San Francisco, a mutual friend kinda “handed me off” to Larry and next thing [...]
John Boitnott KEYT Resume Tape from 2005
by John Boitnott on December 30, 2009 in Journalism, Media Stuff, Television
In the spirit of self-promotion that I sometimes engage in, let’s take a trip down memory lane with some of my on-air TV reporting work that I use to do for KEYT Channel 3 in Santa Barbara. For years I worked as a part-time reporter at the small-market TV station and ended up working on [...]
IMAGES: US Olympians take over Oprah’s season premier
by John Boitnott on September 3, 2008 in Digg, Sports, Television
A cast of Olympic medalists join Oprah Winfrey in Chicago’s Millennium Park for the taping of her first show of the new season. read more | digg story
TODAY’S WORD ON JOURNALISM . . . Monday, Sept. 1, 2008
by John Boitnott on September 3, 2008 in Media Stuff, Politics, Television
http://tedsword.blogspot.com Fair & Balanced? “A newspaper cannot really congratulate itself on having got all the facts impartially when it has quoted at length from two uninformed idiots on opposing sides of an issue.” –A.J. Wiggins, former editor & publisher, The Ellsworth (Maine) American Speak up! Comment on the WORD at http://tedsword.blogspot.com. Feedback and suggestions–printable and [...]
DIGG Getting Into Local News?
by John Boitnott on August 29, 2008 in Digg, Media Stuff
Digg has always featured local news stories submitted by its users, but they haven ’t been organized around location. That may change in 2009. read more | digg story
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Hi I'm John Boitnott. Welcome to my blog! Here I talk about how old media is coping with the Web. I write for Soshable.com, build buzz for sites and advise writers on how to make their work more likely to be shared online. I have worked at Venturebeat, Village Voice Media and NBC. Before that I held several positions at various TV newsrooms in the state of California, from 1994 to 2009.