New Media Strategies NSF EPSCoR & OLPA Public Information Officer Workshop Dennis Haarsager – 7/20/2006
Newspaper readership
Television viewing February Nielsen estimates Average PTV station metro cume
Radio listening
Über trends: digitization Content meets mathematics Noiseless production generations Metadata – data about data Enables advanced (“Web 2.0”) techniques
Über trends: personalization Content meets self-organization Social curation (tagging/folksonomies) Flickr.com del.icio.us CiteULike.org User ratings, comments Attention metadata Communities of interest emerge flickr
Über trends: democratization Content freed from gatekeepers Inexpensive but powerful production tools are in the hands of consumers Low barriers to effective distribution XML syndication (RSS, Atom) Self-publishing (blogs, vlogs, wikis, YouTube) Citizen journalism “Markets are conversations”
Content syndication (RSS) Users can subscribe to your content in their feed reader and automatically see whatever is new Costs virtually nothing Set up in minutes Hundreds of readers available Will get a big boost from IE7 and the new release of Windows Can include audio/video/photo enclosures
Media archives Document and catalog research Arts and humanities creative content from faculty, students and alumni News releases (can include audio, video or photo enclosures) Distribute media via Internet Exploit the long tail
Weblogs Have a conversation with your constituents Personalize your researchers and faculty Aggregate blogs from faculty, students, administrators, alumni Search engine algorithms (Google) reward cross-linking in blogs, improving use of standard web pages Often provide leads to old media researchers
Contact Info Dennis L. Haarsager Associate Vice President & General Manager Educational and Public Media Box Washington State University Pullman, WA ● Weblogs: