New Media Currents is a podcast designed to help the business professional understand new media trends to gain competitive advantage.  See press release.

Download: Robert Scoble is Interviewed by John Houghton
April 18, 2007 (10MB) 15 Minutes

Robert Scoble, well known blogger and author of "Naked Conversations: How Blogs are Changing the Way Businesses Talk with Customers" talks about the latest media trends including live video streaming, twitter, and multimedia website integration.

Download: Web 2.0 for the Enterprise: What Corporations Really Want and Use
April 18, 2007 (19MB) 52 Minutes

How are corporations using wikis, blogs, social bookmarking and podcasting? Find out straight from the world's top companies on this panel as we hear from Joe Schueller of Procter & Gamble, Michael Lenz of Cisco, Ross Mayfield of Social Text, David Meyer of BEA, and moderated by Rob Rueckert of Intel Capital. This program was produced by MobileCast Media, O'Reilly Media and CMP and was recorded at the Web 2.0 expo in San Francisco.

Download: Wikis and Social Media
April 17, 2007 (9MB) 11 Minutes

We've all heard of Wikipedia, but have you considered that corporations can create internal and external wikis to further corporate knowledge and gain competitive advantage?  John talks to Ross Mayfield, CEO of Social Text at Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco.

Download: The Future of Mobile Connectivity, Part 1
September 18, 2006 (15MB) 25 minutes

John interviews Michael Crane of Keynote Systems for a macro level look at how mobile technology is being used to make people and businesses more efficient, including a close look at the phenomenal growth in Africa and China. Part 1 of 3.

Download: The Future of Mobile Connectivity, Part 2
September 18, 2006 (13MB) 23 minutes

John interviews Michael Crane of Keynote Systems on user generated content in Korea, identifying the largest cell carriers, location specific shopping with your cell phone and detecting automotive traffic patterns. Part 2 of 3.

Download: The Future of Mobile Connectivity, Part 3
September 18, 2006 (19MB) 33 minutes

John interviews Michael Crane of Keynote Systems where they discuss mobile solutions for parking, Flash technology as an enabler for mobile commerce, and mobile operating systems. Part 3 of 3.

Download Media Trends
May 19, 2006 (15MB) 18 minutes

Explore media trends that repeat themselves over time so that you can understand past cycles and predict future outcomes.  Special guests are Dr. Christopher Sterling, Professor of Media and Public Affairs at The George Washington University and
Dr. Miriam Smith, Associate professor of media management and law San Francisco State University. Click for program notes.

          • Definition of media
          •  Time from invention to adoption
              — Printing press: 270 years
              — Radio: 70 years
              — TV: 20 years
              — Internet based media
          •  Future of media

We hope that you join us regularly on New Media Currents to keep up-to-date and learn about new strategies and how they can be applied to survive and thrive in today’s media driven society.
 

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