Media industry

Response to WordPress bashing

Posted by Perri Collins on Nov 18, 2011 in Blog, Featured, Media industry

Response to WordPress bashing

I keep up with many blogs from companies in the journalism industry, and I saw this one the other day and just had to write a response. I know that TownNews provides content management systems and the WordPress is a competitor, so of course there’s going to be smack-talking about your rivals. But I still disagree with many of the assumptions Bob Strupp makes. Strupp says WordPress is not a good long-term solution for news organization because: 1. Key staff members leave. Tell me something I...

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Get out of the box

Posted by Perri Collins on Jun 13, 2009 in Media industry

Get out of the box

I love my job. But sometimes I am baffled by things. For example, our organization is putting together our annual convention and the majority of our speakers and presenters are well-established leaders and educators in the journalism field. The problem with that: Media profits have been steadily declining for the past few years. People come to conferences and conventions to take away good ideas on increasing revenue and building better products and services that people want. You can’t keep...

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