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Day 8: Morning rushes past #OccupyPhilly

Jim MacMillan — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 15:01:54 +0000

I took another walk through #OccupyPhilly at Philadelphia City Hall this morning and found more tents sheltering protesters from the damp weather but couldn’t help but notice the lack of engagement between demonstrators and morning rush hour commuters. ©2011 jim@jimmacmillan.com

Updated: Sudden rush of Facebook subscribers

Jim MacMillan — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 16:23:59 +0000

So now I know what’s behind my sudden rush of Facebook subscribers. Facebook is using my profile in their tutorial on Optimizing Your Profile for Suscribe.

Previously:

Since I flipped my Facebook “journalist” community page back into my personal profile a couple of days ago – after Mark Zuckerberg did the same – all of my previous 2,500 “Likers” became “Subscribers.” Since then, I’ve gained another 1,000 Subscribers, and managed dozens of friend requests, both of which are great of course, but I have no idea where they are finding me. Is Facebook search finally producing useful results, are FB profiles producing better Google results, or is there some article out there linking back to me? http://www.facebook.com/jimmacmillan

Meet the PhIJI.org journalism innovation community at Temple University

Jim MacMillan — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 14:40:08 +0000

Feather O. Houstoun, president of the William Penn Foundation, greets new Philadelphia Inquirer, Daily News and Philly.com publisher Greg Osberg after his PhIJI.org presentation at Temple University Tuesday night. Thomas Jacobson, Dean of the School of Communications and Theater at Temple, looks on. iPhone photo by Jim MacMillan

I spend most of my time now teaching graduate journalism courses at NYU and advising students at War News Radio at Swarthmore, but when the sun goes down, I also become the program coordinator for the Philadelphia Initiative for Journalistic Innovation, a program of the Department of Journalism at Temple University.

Last night Greg Osberg, new publisher and CEO of the Philadelphia Inquirer, Daily News and Philly.com, came to visit us at PhIJI.

Osberg announced plans to collaborate with journalism schools, new content sharing objectives, a Philly media incubator that will house startups free of charge in the newspaper building, and a journalism innovation competition with cash rewards for employees.

The William Penn Foundation has previously announced a collaborative journalism initiative that will aim to develop strategies to advance public interest journalism in the greater Philadelphia area. This project is meant to be the next step in creating networks for journalists and developing resourcing strategies and innovations in creating a networked community around public affairs issues.

Check in for more news from this and future events at http://phiji.org/

PhIJI is free and open to the public.

Bus stop, Nogales

Jim MacMillan — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 13:48:45 +0000

Travelers waiting at a bus stop face the U.S. border wall in Nogales, Mexico on Saturday. The white crosses commemorate those who have died crossing the border.

My usual tweet blog is still on hold while I try to catch up on business that piled up while I was in Mexico. Come back soon.

The Future of Publishing

Jim MacMillan — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 02:52:15 +0000