Viral Video: Chris Hadfield Rocks in Outer Space
MCDM Connect: Wine, Marshmallows, and Networks
How do you spark lively conversation, meaningful professional connections and new ideas? In one all-too short evening? An un-conference just might be the way to go, especially when ...
Viral Video: Chris Hadfield Rocks in Outer Space
Stressed out after a long week? Gravity be gone – we’re off to the moon with Chris Hadfield, who returned with his Russian and American colleagues on Monday nig ...
Game Night 2: EMP Style
On Friday May 10th, the EMP (Experience Music Project) exhibition The Art of Video Games signed off in the same awesome way it signed on, with an epic night of gaming. As described ...
Seahawks & Smack Talk
#Gameoverman, this was the hash tag to use if you were lucky enough to have made it to the epic Madden battle between select Seahawks team members at game night, the party that si ...
EMP Museum Game Over for Twitter Trolls
Last Friday the EMP Museum in Seattle hosted Game Over 2, a night of gaming to usher out their Art of Video Game Exhibit. There were so many great things that happened that evening ...
Viral Video: Military Spouse Day
Today is Military Spouse Appreciation Day…so here is a video of some of the best surprise homecomings of service members and their families. Shout out to MCDM student Jessica ...Citizen Journalists: Nobody Plays by the Same Rules
What are the basic rights of citizen journalists? What protections they can expect as granted by the First Amendment, and specifically what rights do they have regarding reusabilit ...
Hey Restaurants! Let canon Show You How to Use Twitter
Heads up ye owners of dining establishments, a small intimate restaurant in Seattle has a few things to teach you about how to engage with customers in today’s fast-moving so ...
Books that Talk, Taking on Literacy and Global Poverty
This post was produced as part of the UW Comm Department’s undergraduate Entrepreneurial Journalism course. By Alysa Hullett While Americans are tapping away at their iPads, ...
Divide and Conquer: Customer Loyalty Mobile Apps Abound
Special to Flip by Katherine Loh I was sitting at a local coffee shop when I witnessed a rather common, but painful situation. The cashier handed a gentleman his credit card after ...
Viral Video: Military Spouse Day
Today is Military Spouse Appreciation Day…so here is a video of some of the best surprise homecomings of service members and their families. Shout out to MCDM student Jessica Hall and the other military spouses in the program. Thank you for all you do!
When someone you love comes home from deployment no matter how prepared you think you are…that moment you see them? Best feeling ever.
Citizen Journalists: Nobody Plays by the Same Rules
What are the basic rights of citizen journalists? What protections they can expect as granted by the First Amendment, and specifically what rights do they have regarding reusability and copyright? Tracy Record is the Editor and Co-publisher of the West Seattle Blog (WSB), the market-leading news source for West Seattle (pop. 85,000) one of Seattle’s biggest neighborhoods. http://westseattleblog.com/
West Seattle Blog’s Tracy Record – photo by John Yeager
Record says, “Nobody plays by the same rules.”
Why not? Recently, I sat down with Record for a one-on-one interview about the rights and responsibilities of citizen journalists. Record is considered by many to be a pioneer in new media. She’s a long-time TV journalist, having worked in abcnews.com and KOMO 4 TV and KCPQ newsrooms. The West Seattle Blog says it averages 1 million pageviews a month. Record was honored with the Society of Professional Journalists’ June A. Almquist Award for Distinguished Service to Journalism. WSB also received the 2012 “Government News Reporting of the Year” award from the Municipal League. For the third consecutive year WSB has been awarded KING 5′s “Best of Western Washington” and Seattle Magazine’s “Best of 2012″.
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Hey Restaurants! Let canon Show You How to Use Twitter
Heads up ye owners of dining establishments, a small intimate restaurant in Seattle has a few things to teach you about how to engage with customers in today’s fast-moving social media world.
Yesterday, Seattle was unseasonably warm and after spending the day soaking up the sun I exchanged tweets with friends about how while I would love to go out that evening I really didn’t feel like leaving my couch. Too hot, can’t move. It just so happened at the same time as this conversation, the twitter account for canon tweeted this:
Nuts. -RT- @scottskomo Weather blog posted: #Seattle‘s 87 matches #Phoenix for hottest major city in U.S. Monday: bit.ly/17IL2kQ
— canon (@CanonSeattle) May 7, 2013
I replied to them that it seemed to be a perfect day for a nice cool drink and their response was fast (no joke, they replied in literally a minute.)
@oceanbound Indeed! Did you see today’s special? twitter.com/CanonSeattle/s…
— canon (@CanonSeattle) May 7, 2013
Just like that, my friend and I had changed our minds about staying in for the night and were on our way to canon because we had looked up what the special in the tweet was and it sounded amazing. Off to canon we went. (Which I should note is considerably further away for both of us than our usual hang out.)
Books that Talk, Taking on Literacy and Global Poverty
A Ghanian villager uses his Talking Book.
Photo copyright 2010 Literacy Bridge.
This post was produced as part of the UW Comm Department’s undergraduate Entrepreneurial Journalism course.
By Alysa Hullett
While Americans are tapping away at their iPads, Ghanaians are listening to their “Talking Books.”
In many developing nations, poverty means illiteracy. Without the internet, electricity, or access to doctors, Cliff Schmidt realized many families are ignorant of the help they need from everything from growing potatoes to saving their lives.
So he founded Seattle-based nonprofit Literacy Bridge, aiming to combat global poverty and illiteracy through a simplistic audio computer. Press a button, and vital health and agriculture information plays in the targeted village’s native dialect.
Viral Video: Spielberg to Follow Lincoln with – Wha-a-a-?
Is Daniel Day Lewis THAT adaptable? You decide:
Divide and Conquer: Customer Loyalty Mobile Apps Abound
A customer scanning her Pirq iPhone app at a local coffee shop – Photo by Katherine Loh
Special to Flip by Katherine Loh
I was sitting at a local coffee shop when I witnessed a rather common, but painful situation.
The cashier handed a gentleman his credit card after he swiped his $8 total for two. As he and his friend take a seat, the customer behind him asks the cashier where she could scan her mobile rewards application. The cashier points to the glowing 10-inch tablet off to the side; the customer aligns her smartphone to a colorful barcode on the tablet. Her $9 drink total for her and her kids magically changes to a $4.50 value.
At this point, the first customer is probably thinking his wallet is suddenly feeling tremendously lighter as he looks down at his iPhone 4s, heavy with regret. What did that customer just scan? How did she get such a terrific deal?
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Zach Braff Engages With Fans. Now They’ve Funded His Movie.
Zach Braff, courtesy Kickstarter
They funded his movie in three days.
Zach Braff wanted creative control of the follow-up to his hit independent film, “Garden State“. According to Zach Braff’s Kickstarter campaign, a traditional financing deal requires compromises on casting, location, and budget. To support his vision, Braff decided to try crowdfunding. “Wish I Was Here” launched April 24. Three days later, funding surpassed the $2 million goal.
We could focus on the intent of Kickstarter and the ethics of a celebrity drawing from that limited pool; the points of interest and controversy related to this story run the spectrum. We’d like to try another focus: What is it about Zach Braff that made this happen?
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What the Cr(app): Lulu – it’s – well… a lulu
Special to Flip the Media by Iku Kawachi
Of all of the applications of ever-ubiquitous social media that make us wonder what the world has come to, perhaps none is more likely to disgust us than this one: Lulu, an app for girls to rate, gossip about, and search for boyfriends and hook-ups (no boys allowed).
Lulu, available free for Android and iOS since last June, describes itself as the “smart girls’ app for private recommendations and reviews on guys.” It requires users to authenticate their identity by logging in via their Facebook account, upon which they can access a grid-based interface featuring thumbnails of guys and numerical 1-10 scores. Individual pages have scores on categories like “Manners,” “Sex,” and “First Kiss,” hashtags divided into positive and negative traits, and links to their Facebook profiles.
Lulu prides itself on its experience being “as private as you want it to be. You can use Lulu completely anonymously or share reviews with your BFFs.”
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