Posts tagged with economy

Initial Public Overpricing: Should We Bank on the Social Media Bubble?

My Dad (Doug David/”The Doug”) wanted me to work in a field that he didn’t know anything about.  Now The Doug knows about stuff: he knows the news, knows the literature, knows the nature, knows the media, knows the finance... that kind of stuff. The Doug knew social media was being heralded as a game changer.  He knew about the argument of its role in revolutions;  knew it was controversial; and knew that a decent amount of people used it.  All good stuff, but he wanted to know if it had the juice to be sustainable.  When I took the job at NMS last year, he wanted to know: what kind of confidence did the market have in the social media industry?  

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Can Government Transparency Encourage Problem Solving Through Social Media?

A common theme in many of the political and advocacy-oriented panels at SXSW was the idea that social media’s vocabulary is honesty and transparency. As trade organizations, political candidates and government officials have adopted social media, they have needed to adopt the vocabulary of transparency to connect with the community. So if social media has encouraged transparency, can the opposite be true as well? Can policies of transparency encourage the use of social tools to solve public problems?

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The Churn: A Non-Manifesto

The Internet creates new efficiencies which lower the cost of doing business and cut out middlemen of all kinds (even those who never thought of themselves as such) while letting new players into a given market. What does a society affected by these trends look like at the macro level?

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Did You Receive a Buy-Out with Six Month’s Salary? Think of It as Start-Up Capital

We should all be so lucky. Right before a media company begins its mass exodus of layoffs, journalists sometimes find themselves in the eye of the storm, reading HR emails announcing buyouts for those willing to voluntarily jump ship early.

 

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