Now that I’m “back in the game” so to speak, I’ve spent the past few months creating a few tools to help me find industry relevant content. A few of my peers have asked to take a glance “at my tools”, which I found shocking at first, but soon realized what they were talking about. As such, here they are:
1 – the Future of TV newsletter
Inspired by my colleague Jason Hirschhorn‘s excellent “MediaReDEFined” newsletter, I’ve set up a newsletter that’s just me curating news in the “Future of TV” space. Topics include Social TV, Connected TV, SmartTV, Second Screen, Four Screens, OTT (Over-the-Top), Cord Cutting and just about anything else that comes along that way. It’s a fully manually curated production, so you should expect anywhere from 2-20 or so article per day (substantially less on the weekend).
Sample excerpt:
The Difference Between Connected TV, Social TV and Expanded TV (TribecaFilm) | Talk NYC Posted: 19 Aug 2011 01:39 PM PDT
With television moving onto different platforms, it seems like nowadays we can watch TV everywhere. What is the ultimate future for television in a world that expects more from their
The Cable Customer’s Bill of Rights Posted: 19 Aug 2011 01:39 PM PDT
Over the past few days, we’ve received more than 1,000 horror stories about bad cable experiences: tales of bad techs, terrible service, and troubling billing practices. We used those to build a cable customer’s bill of rights.
Hope you find this useful, click here to subscribe. And don’t forget to tell all your friends!
2 – the Future of TV Twitter list
The best way to really *use* Twitter (other than pure self-promotion, narcissism, and stalking purposes that is), is to organize people into “lists” that tend to tweet about a given topic. Even then, it’s an easy bet that said list will still contain it’s fair share of lunch-related discussion and reality TV show spoilers, but it’s still better than the pure noise of your regular Twitter stream. I’ve culled a list of people who tend to be more likely than not to tweet about something having to do with the future of TV. It’s not perfect, and it’s probably still missing some folks. Here’s a sample:
Note that this is *not* a list of all companies or people in the Future of TV industry, and Twitter accounts from companies such as Miso and GetGlue are conspicuously absent – but this is because they aren’t really tweeting about TV, and are tweeting about TV shows themselves (not to pick on either company – and if there are Twitter accounts from them, or others, that are more germaine to this topic, I’d be happy to include them here).
I’ve also embedded this list into the sidebar of the blog, so you can follow along from here if that’s easier. Or click here to see the whole list in action.
Hope either of these are useful tools to anyone in this very fun, very fast-moving industry. Happy to take any feedback or suggestions as well!