I spoke at Media140 Sydney – I want to highlight some of the “arguments” used against social media by the panels, also focus on Everybody co-creating The Human Narrative and the diminishing role of journalists who take news from one part of the community and deliver it to another part: It’s not YOUR content. It’s our content. Our stories. We didn’t give you the Human Story, we loaned it to you, and now we’re taking it back.
Such an odd day – I couldn’t seem to get my feet under me at Media140 Sydney. Journalists kept coming up with the same old chestnuts and really no idea how to listen. It was weird. Note: my view was as a blogger first and only. I’m not a journalist who blogs, nor a blogger who has ever been paid for writing by a media organisation, nor journalist who is also an academic. So it’s a bit of a surprise that few people addressed the popular questions of “how will Freelancers survive”, “how will social media make money”? I have a clear understanding of those things, perhaps because I’m NOT in the media echo chamber but in online communities where everyday ProAms are figuring out how to monetize their user generated content. In fact I podcast about social media revenue every week…
Anyway, here is my 5 minute presentation also available as an episode on my Social Media Business podcast on iTunes or video or audio.
Now we’re taking it back – Laurel Papworth Media140 from Laurel Papworth on Vimeo.
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