AINN is looking for a media manager in DC
DisplacedJournalists.com: The American Independent News Network (AINN) seeks a dynamic individual to manage the promotion of the Network’s amazing reporters and hot breaking stories to outside media, including to press and through social media.
Mercury News: Does God Have a Facebook Page?
By Mike Cassidy Mercury News Are you there God? It’s me, twitter.com/mikecassidy. Maybe it’s no surprise that we’ve reached the point where, rather than looking to the heavens to find God, we’re looking to the cloud. It’s where we live now, with iPods, iPads, Android gizmos, social networks. The town square, complete with steepled church, [...]
Social commerce is the next big thing
Social Commerce Today Posted on January 6, 2011 by Paul Marsden So next month’s (Feb 2011) Wired magazine (UK edition) has just dropped, with a cover story on social commerce, by editor David Rowan and editorial assistant Tom Cheshire. The cover text- “What are you selling? Big Brands want to cash in on your Facebook [...]
HOW TO: Back Up Your Social Media Presence Before the Ball Drops
By Brenna Ehrlich, Mashable Remember how we were all freaking out on New Year’s Eve, 1999, convinced that the world as we know it would end — at the hands of machines, of course? Well, we weathered that storm and then some. Still, as we shamble forward into the next decade, it might be prudent [...]
Welcome to Our Community
Is there life – or work – after newspapers? A lot of us are in the process of finding out. Because it’s generally a somewhat lonely endeavor, it struck me, in January 2010, that it might be comforting – and possibly very productive – to go through it together.
Displaced Journalists is a community – our community – where we find common ground, where we can begin to pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off and get on with our lives and livelihoods. [more]