‘content syndication’ posts

Community and Content: Business Week's Business Exchange

Posted by John Eckman on 30 Jun 2009

Earlier this month, during the MediaBistro Circus, John A Byrne (@johnabyrne on twitter) spoke about how Business Week is transforming itself, engaging with users, and taking advantage of new opportunities to bring community into contact with content. One of the sites he mentioned was the Business Exchange, a new community (really a set of communities) | View post »

Want to Engage your Sports Fans on their sites and Facebook? See how the New England Patriots are doing it.

Posted by Marc Osofsky on 13 Jun 2009

Fans want to share the love of their team with other fans. Providing a team sponsored multimedia experience that is updated daily on their own site is a perfect solution. The New England Patriots got a head start on delivering this possibility by using OView application syndication and engaging with Optaros to deliver the right | View post »

Video Demo of Application Syndication with OView

Posted by Marc Osofsky on 16 Apr 2009

Video demos of the Patriots Calendar App are provided to help you understand what is available for the fan of the New England Patriots and how we are managing this cross channel/cross domain micro-experience through OView. The Fan Experience As a fan of the New England Patriots the Patriots Calendar App, built using the Event | View post »

Leveraging APIs to Grow Your Digital Footprint

Posted by John Eckman on 13 Apr 2009

While non-profit, community-oriented public radio stations aren’t usually seen as being at the forefront of Internet technology, National Public Radio has been quietly making very impressive moves in adjusting to a new set of user expectations and technologies we’ve termed the Assembled Web. As consumers have become increasingly sophisticated in their consumption (and control) of | View post »

Content Sponsorship – Media Companies Grow Online Revenue with A Web 2.0 Approach

Posted by Marc Osofsky on 17 Sep 2008

Most online media properties are looking for new ways to increase their online revenues that are consistent with their brand. Advertisers want to engage directly with their target audiences with meaningful, rich content. Media properties are looking to ad more rich, social media capabilities to their sites Media properties are constrained financially to invest in | View post »

Content Management in the Age of User Participation – Presentation

Posted by John Eckman on 20 Jun 2008

Earlier this week, I had the opportunity to present at Web Content 2008 on user generated content and the impact it has on content management.The presentation is called “Tag, Upload, Share, Discuss: Content Management in the Age of User Participaiton” – you can view it below, or download the PDF at slideshare. | View | View post »

Web widget provides engagement around comics

Posted by Marc Osofsky on 13 May 2008

Optaros has developed for King Digital, a unit of King Features, a web widget that brings extended benefits to both the host site TimesUnion.com and the King Digital. King Digital is now able to deliver all of the great content that they have in their collection and can provide community functionality along side that helps | View post »

Advertising Online 2 Application Views, the Online Ad Alternative

Posted by Marc Osofsky on 08 May 2008

The internet is now the #1 media channel at work and the #2 channel at home. Brands must effectively engage consumers online with content to remain relevant. But eye tracking studies and DoubleClick’s own data show that consumers have learned to ignore online ad real estate, no matter what type of ad (video, widget, flash) | View post »

Marketing to Women? Don't Ignore the Blogosphere

Posted by John Eckman on 18 Apr 2008

Brands who hope to market to women should no longer consider the blogosphere as an emerging or fringe channel, but should recognize the pervasive presence and increasing influence of women as authors, readers, and commentors on blogs. That’s the message of the BlogHer | Compass Partners 2008 Social Media Benchmark Study, based on a presentation | View post »

Open Source CMS – does the world need yet another one of these??

Posted by Optaros on 07 Apr 2008

Content Management is a very poplular category in the open source ecosystem. There are more than 2’000 open source technologies out there to handle, manage and distribute content. So why would we need any of the 200 new ones published over the last six months? Some of the existing 2’000+ solutions are very well known. | View post »