Media Vent
By Bob Sacks
About Bob
Bob Sacks (aka BoSacks) is a printing/publishing industry consultant and president of The Precision Media Group (BoSacks.com). He is also the co-founder of the research company Media-Ideas (Media-Ideas.net), and publisher and editor of a daily international e-newsletter, Heard on the Web. Sacks has held posts as director of manufacturing and distribution, senior sales manager (paper), chief of operations, pressman, circulator and almost every other job this industry has to offer.
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The Key to Publishing's Survival
All publishing leaders must jump in with both feet, learn the new languages, join Facebook, have at least 3 e-mail addresses, and get a Twitter page. If your kids speak the digital language and you don't, how can you possibly lead your flagship publication or publishing association into the new world? The answer clearly is that you cannot. If you are fearful of the Web's Second Life or worse, don't know what that is, then you can't have one.
To survive you must embrace digital technology like there's no tomorrow, because if you don't, there won't be. No one should be spared this digital education. Let me repeat that so we are on the same page: No one can be spared this digital education. That includes everyone from the mail room to the executive boards. I mean the leadership of MPA to the BPA. I am including the membership of the PBAA, ABC and the AARP. If you can't upload a video file and are not subscribed to several RSS feeds, you should be fired. If you can't convert a word docx file to a PDF, you are history. If you can't do the voodoo, you sure as hell shouldn't/can't manage those that do.
The rate of change in digital technologies is accelerating at an inhuman pace. If you don't use it and aren't comfortable living in it, you can't understand the importance of adapting your flagship for the times ahead, and you won't be able to stay on the curve, let alone ahead of it.
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Good call, Bob, as the numbers show, younger people online, the digital natives, are intrinsically social; they're not specifically there to be published to. therefore, if you want to be successful in that medium you have to speak the language and approach the Internet on its own terms, not those of a traditional publisher
I have noticed authors, publishers, and many businesses are coming to learn the value of social media sites.
I have also seen publishing brands on twitter.