View the Personal MBA - ChangeThis Manifesto

Read about how the PMBA movement began in BusinessWeek Here

I think I will try this one first, see how it goes and if not satisfied enrol in the traditional old school night school eventually. I will build my reading list and start with… Mastery By George Leonard. I’ve added a new category for Posts “PMBA Updates” - so I can keep track of progress.

“Evolution is a whole long story of mastery. It’s being real. It’s being human. It’s being who we are.” –George Leonard, Author, Mastery

Actually I think I will start with How to Read a Financial Report - By John A Tracey for the Finance and Accounting focus, currently I’m more attuned with words than numbers - always best to start with those development areas!
Lucky I’m getting that library membership back in business or I may as well get my salary diverted straight to the coffers of Amazon.com!

What actually is “Scoopt” - A web2.0 answer to Getty Images?

Thats what I was thinking then came across a news item from 3 days ago with Getty Images acquiring Pump Audio (to expand into music licensing which also mentioned recent bite sized acquisitions from Feb and March of Scoopt and MediaVast, sources of online videos and photos. The big news though was the Pump Audio acquisition - “a significant development in the company’s ongoing strategy to build a comprehensive digital media offering to meet the growing content needs of media, advertising and corporate customers.”

See Scoopt on CNN in January here

I learnt all I knew for my school research projects through yellow paged encyclopaedias and microfiche if I was really digging deep. No Wikipedia.. Googling it.. Or going for the expert opinion on the blog of a dedicated, passionate Joe Bloggs.

I haven’t had my ten year school reunion yet, and the blog is probably still a toddler (foetus) in the stage of its lifespan. Stirrings started in 1993, the term web log, was coined in 97, first tool to build your own web log in 1999.. a blip ago in the scheme of things! See the blog history in timeline form here

Blogs have now also made an impact in business as well as personal use, allowing large (and small) corporates have two way conversations in a more real time way.
Read Times Online - Top 50 Business Blogs Here

Best Business Blogs: Readers Strike Back!

Read ComputerWorld - IBM adds tools to extend Web2.0 to business world

and also on this topic - Social network sites give businesses ideas for new collaboration

Read Salt Lake Tribune - Blog about Work - At your own risk!

Read NewsObserver - Bloggers can go from anonymity to notoriety in an instant ..

Watch three Price Water House Cooper presentations on Video

1. Roadmap for convergence readiness
2. Media companies preparing for 2010
3. Delivering on Consumer Choice”Companies can harness the opportunities around convergence and translate them into value creation. The corporate winners will be those companies who nimbly manage change to fuse state-of-the-art technology with a clear vision of the future.”

View the videos at the PWC site here

Read Advertising Age: Article commenting on these results here - “Magazine Revenue will grow but slowly”

Also - Guess who won the 2007 National Magazine Award for Online General Excellence? Contenders were www.espn.com, www.slate.com and www.people.com. The winner.. Here

And now back home..
TVNZ has signed up to a groundbreaking partnership with Google to bring TVNZ content to YouTube - another New Zealand first for the broadcaster… Read More at tvnz.co.nz

From a Pre 1800 neanderthal carving on a wooly mammoth tooth through the 19th, 20th and 21st century where we are now with wiki, blogs, podcasts and e- books etc. View the University of Minnesota Media History Timeline

In the news - Fairfax reporter deported from Fiji

I am on Vacation till 21st June. In the words of Google - If your bored, Try Google News.

Back to Paris, News Count- 471 Articles Going Down…

Frontiers of Freedom Article: “Paris Hilton a Judicious Hissy Fit & Media Made Circus”- There are problems with Paris Hilton’s treatment, but it is the unfairness of it – not the fact that there is too much coverage. She should go home. Read it Here

Read the Frontiers of Freedom - “The Ten Tenets.”

For a more detailed legal argument read US Attorney Jonna Spilbor’s report: “The Fame and Misfortune of Celebrity: Why Paris Hilton does not belong behind bars” 

 An extra outtake:

Tony Blair in Slate: After asserting early on that a “free media is a vital part of a free society,” and that his “reflection is not about ‘blaming’ anyone,” Blair gets busy disdaining the freeness of the free media—that is, media that expresses itself in ways that he does not approve—and blaming the responsible parties for the decline of the press

He much prefers the old order, in which information could be more easily managed by the government.” Read more here

Offline 

Demise of Print a Tad exaggerated - NZ Herald

Online 

Nielsen showed APN’s nzherald.co.nz/news site ahead of Fairfax’s stuff.co.nz/news in May by 10,000 domestic unique browsers. Herald at 507,770 hits compared to Stuff’s 496,658.

Tv3.co.nz/news is New Zealand’s third most preferred source of online news with 200,267 hits, followed by independent site, scoop.co.nz on 188,009 and State broadcaster tvnz.co.nz/news on 184,573.