iMedia was acquired on 26 September 2005 by ad:tech expositions -- a division of DMG World Media -- and "the leading event organizer for global interactive marketing conferences and expositions" [http://www.imediaconnection.com/content/6833.asp].
Brad Berens -- Executive Editor of iMediaConnection, Inc. -- gave me advice for online writing (some of which he also spoke about at USC's Undergraduate Writing Competition on 1 March 2006). Two main points include:
- make the piece friendly
- address specific questions
According to Brad, "The online reader is in a HURRY and needs the writer to do a lot of the heavy cognitive lifting" (Email: "Edits requested" -- 17 March 2006).
Heavy prose threatens to lose the reader and puts unnecessary burden on the impatient online reader.
With Brad's writing guidance and with the supervision of Roger Park -- News Editor of iMediaConnection -- I have worked on three news articles to date that can be read at the following links:
Visiongain Mobile Advertising Report [http://www.imediaconnection.com/news/8696.asp]
FX, MSN "Black.White." Partnership [http://www.imediaconnection.com/news/8654.asp]
eMarketer: France Leads in Connectivity [http://www.imediaconnection.com/news/8592.asp]
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I think it is great that companies are beggining to take blogging more seriously. It is a very effective way of getting honest feedback (rather than focus groups or surveys). This type of constructive criticism is good for the company. I also find it very interesting that there are actually companies such as Intelliseek that analyses blogs for businesses. Ofcourse it would be too time consuming for a business to look through some 27 million blogs to find out more about their repuation and client feedback.
Anandita Khanijaon
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