Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 11, 2011

I recently had the pleasure of spending an hour with Jon Steinberg, president of Buzzfeed , a company who focuses on helping media companies make their content go viral. That’s why people turn up to Buzzfeed. His words, “we find things on Sunday morning that will be on the Today show on Tuesday morning.&#

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 7, 2013

When I first started writing this blog several years ago I had less followers than you have right now. But the realist in me knew I couldn’t write daily nor could I convince you to think to check out my blog with regularity. data has confirmed it and BuzzFeed has built an entire business around it! I should know.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 11, 2013

I spent more time organizing my tax forms, keeping them safe, getting invoices together, getting invoice templates, then getting them out there and tracking down my payment for writing the article. The article can take 10 hours to write a good article and the paperwork can take five hours. We will have writers store their W-9 forms.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2016

It’s more like writing a Tweet vs. sending a Direct Message (DM) in Twitter, which feels more intimate and intrusive or a FB post vs. a Private Message. It has Vice, Tastemade, Vox, ESPN, Comedy Central, BuzzFeed and more. I promise to write more about how to get the most out of it and why I think it’s important for media.

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