Two great eBooks available from Triiibes

Posted on by Jaculynn Peterson

For your personal and professional enlightenment about leadership, there’s two FREE eBooks available now from Seth Godin’s Triiibes community:

1. Tribes Casebook – A compilation of hundreds of tribe-building case studies that were written, edited and critiqued by thousands of members in Triiibes. (A submission from yours truly is on page 212.)

2. Tribes Q & A Book – A fabulous resource for building and leading tribes, developed by a core group of brilliant Triiibsters. Download it for yourself today.

SPECIAL NOTE: Both of these eBooks complement the recent release of Seth Godin‘s best-selling hardcover book, Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us, which I highly recommend. ENJOY!

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Advice for newspaper industry

Posted on by Jaculynn Peterson

“Burn 90% of it to the ground. And do it fast,” according to Michael Rosenblum at the Society of Editors Conference 2008.

UPDATES as of 15 November 2008:
The Future of Newspaper, Magazine Industry Grows Dim
How Newspapers Can Increase Their Google Juice
Will All Media Go Digital By 2014?
The End of Tangible Media is Clearly in Sight
Do newspapers have 6 more months?
Newspapers Jettisoning Top Talent to Cut Costs
Newspapers – The Terminal UI Problem
Murdoch: The Future Of Newspapers Goes Beyond Dead Trees
The San Diego news model
Iconic Harvard Square newsstand to close
The TypePad Journalist Bailout Program
Ten changes that could save print newspapers
New Media, New Opportunities
Should Newspaper Companies Get Out Of The Newspaper Business?
News You Can Lose
Newspapers are Old News
Out of Print (The New Yorker, March 2008)
Blogs Complement the Fourth Estate (March 2008)
Envisioning a Newspaperless Democracy (Newspaper Death Watch, March 2008)
Citizen in the Newsroom (July 2008)
PEJ Report – The Changing Newspaper Newsroom (July 2008)
Why I Blog (November 2008)
The NYT API: Newspaper as Platform (February 2009)
How to Save Your Newspaper (February 2009)
You Can’t Sell News by the Slice (February 2009)
The Newspaper Reporter of the Future is Here Today (February 2009)
At Last, Google Funds a Bailout for Reporters (February 2009)
VCs chasing fool’s gold in funding ‘hyperlocal’ projects that ‘scale’ (March 2009)
Ex-WaPo Editor Jim Brady to News Sites: Experiment More, Now (March 2009)
The Online Experiments That Could Help Newspapers (March 2009)
The 10 Most Endangered Newspapers in America (March 2009)
Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable (March 2009)
U.S. bill seeks to rescue faltering newspapers (March 2009)
What Percent of Newspaper Readers Read Newspapers Online? Wrong. (April 2009)

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No matter how you slice it, NEWS is a hot topic

Posted on by Jaculynn Peterson

Many of you visit Diablogue from outside of the USA. Welcome and thank you.

Diablogue Visitors by Country

I’ve noticed lately that many of you arrived here via search on this topic: “What is News?”

Awhile ago I posed this question as I tried to decide whether or not to return to Journalism school. However, the question carries larger implications about how we define “news” and how we receive our news – not just here in the USA, but around the globe. Mostly thanks to the Internet.

How is news defined in your country?
What is your personal definition of news?
Do you participate in defining or reporting news in your country?

Please feel free to share your thoughts.

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If this doesn’t inspire you to get out of debt, nothing will

Posted on by Jaculynn Peterson

Save the link. The video will take 45 minutes of your time, guaranteed to be one of the best investments – literally and figuratively – you’ve ever made.

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Note: Getting out of debt and saving money is #4 in the Effort Diet Challenge.

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An invitation to join the Effort Diet Challenge

Posted on by Jaculynn Peterson

For those who want to make change – from the inside out.
Nov 2008-May 2009

I’m challenging myself. And I’m challenging you, too.

Last month Seth Godin posted a thoughtful piece: “Is Effort a Myth?” Seth writes about the difference between luck and effort—both provide great results, only with the former you hope for it to happen and with the latter you can choose for it to happen.

In the piece, Seth includes a sample list of ingredients for an “effort” diet and says:

“Go through the list and decide whether or not it’s worth it. Or make up your own diet. Effort is a choice, at least make it on purpose. If you somehow pulled this off…you would be the fittest, best rested, most intelligent, best funded and motivated person in your office or your field. You would know how to do things other people don’t, you’d have a wider network and you’d be more focused.”

On November first, I started the Effort Diet Challenge. I hope you will join me.

P.S. I will periodically report my progress here and in Triiibes.

UPDATE – Interesting article on 14 November 2008: You Can Only Change Yourself

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For those who want to make change – from the inside out. Nov 2008-May 2009

For those who want to make change – from the inside out.
Nov 2008-May 2009