New Media, What's the Story?

And why am I so interested in marketing, social networks, new media, and technology that brings people together, people to products....... Companies to people? ........People to issues, issues to people. It's not simply, or solely about new revenue opportunities... It must be somewhere in that desire to connect. The times they are a' changing, but people still tell stories. They tell them about different things and they tell then in different ways and by new means. "People connect" and brands that facilitate this well can do well for themselves, and for those they serve. I'm enjoying reading, listening and watching those with valuable insights.

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Could Email Die?

Interesting consideration.... quote from John McKinley (formerly AOL CTO and, later, President of Digital Services.)

"We are in the midst of an important moment of truth - email as we know it is under attack, and the major firms are not moving fast enough to prevent it from becoming more of a niche form of communications in the next 5 years. The email experience of today is being threatened on multiple fronts by a variety of new forms of communication:

Twitter/short-form blogging

Asynchronous messaging in social networks (e.g., the Facebook Wall)

IM experiences now supporting queuing of messages to offline buddies

Away message/Status message utilization in instant messaging

SMS adoption (late to come to the US, but now pervasive)......................."

..........see full list at Lightspeed's blog ....where I clipped this from.....