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Crowd Computing Systems Founder and CEO Max Yankelevich.During the SIIA's 2014 IIS Summit held in New York City last week, Newstex President Larry Schwartz hosted the SIIA Previews Event where five innovative early stage content and content technology companies had the opportunity to present their businesses to an audience...
Three themes prevailed at the Software and Information Industry Association's IIS 2014 event in New York City last week---disruption, change, and a new focus---and all three are essential for content publishers to understand and prioritize in 2014 and beyond.
Pinterest is the second biggest driver of social media referral traffic to websites (behind Facebook), but it's still relatively untapped for Authoritative Content promotion.
During the fourth quarter of 2013, Facebook drove more than twice as much referral traffic to websites than seven other social media sites combined (Pinterest, Twitter, StumbleUpon, Reddit, YouTube, LinkedIn, and Google+).
Did you know that most content publishers haven't prioritized mobile content delivery yet? As we near the end of the first month of 2014, one thing is absolutely certain---the world is mobile and your content must be mobile, too.
ProPublica President Dick Tofel[/caption]While the amount of true investigative journalism on network television today has dwindled to next to nothing, the future looks good for digital investigative journalism, particularly for non-profit publishers.
Buying and selling social media followers has become big business in recent months. In November 2013, I shared statistics from a number of studies as well as an infographic filled with information about fake followers and the illusion of authority and influence online.
This week, the team at Automattic launched official statistics about the growth of WordPress.com during 2013, and the numbers are very impressive.
Each year, Lake Superior State University in Michigan compiles a list of words that have become so overused that they should be banned from the English language.
How did Google become the powerhouse that it is today? Although it's hard to remember a time when Google wasn't the most popular search engine in the world or a time when Google wasn't the company behind many of the websites and tools that people use every day (like YouTube and Gmail), Google's enormous success didn't happen overnight
The 2013 Good Push Index from Urban Airship offers two important findings for content publishers, which clarify the need for making content mobile-friendly.
Search engines drive the vast majority of traffic to most websites, but social media referrals are growing quickly while search traffic is slowly decreasing.
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