For those of us still mourning the end of the Oprah Winfrey show this past spring, there is a reunion of sorts taking place today. Ok reunion is a mighty stretch. O is giving her fans face time on Facebook today at 4:30 p.m. by answering questions live. RSVP the event. You can watch the event right here when it starts by the way. To add your two cents to the conversation, simply submit them through the Facebook wall.
Help Wanted: Digital Media Professionals
Part 2 – Basic Communicating Skills
This post comes from guest contributor Karen Malone Wright. She’s a modern communication strategist who writes the blog Communications Goddess. Rather than focusing on specific job titles in digital media communications, she zeroed in on the skills needed to succeed. I’m honored to be a guest blogger, but I confess that I’m still no expert [...]
Help Wanted: Digital Media Professionals
Part 1 – Web Content
While the national unemployment rate is currently 8.7%, the digital media industry is hiring. More than 26 thousand job listings cropped up when I did a keyword search of digital media on the Simply Hired job site. The positions were quite broad ranging from media planners (advertising), to producers (design/development/programmers) to social media marketers to [...]
Beyonce, Bruno and the Best of the MTV VMAs Days Later
August 30th, 2011 
Digital Media Geek Didn’t watch Beyonce reveal her baby bump live on the MTV Video Music Awards on Sunday night? Me neither. Too many other activities in my own real world needed my attention. But that’s the beauty of this nonlinear digital age. You can watch an award show anytime you want online and still chat it up on Twitter, Facebook, your chat room of choice or even at work.
Said show needs to be put online of course. So thank you MTV for posting it in it’s entirety along with highlights. This made the watercooler talk a lot easier. We watched and talked and drank our beverages at once. (And we did sneak in some work 
And here’s the water cooler best of the awards – let us know if you agree with our picks! Read more »
Live News on My Cellphone ? Not Yet
August 4th, 2011 Digital Media Geek Picture being hit with a blackout because the latest storm knocked out power in your neighborhood. Since you don’t have electricity, you reach for your cellphone and tap your local news app in hopes of getting an update on the situation via a video stream of the live news broadcast. But you’re out of luck. Live local news via cellphone is nonexistent – for the most part.
This is the predicament I found myself in over the summer. Once the power returned, I did some armchair research on what news sites video stream their live broadcasts to mobile phones. Here is what I found.
