Social Media Gnomes!

One reason for the interest in social media is that people expect to make money on it. Some investors paid serious money for popular social media sites. However sites like Twitter or MySpace are now having difficulty finding funding respectively have been down valued from their original buying prices. After watching a rerun episode of South Park, I concluded that most social media business strategies could be compared to the Underpants Gnomes business strategies.

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My Internship at the CrossmediaLab

Last year, february to july 2008, I did an internship at public broadcasting TV-station BNN, which focuses it's programming on young people, typically aged between 15 and 30 years old . The department I did my internship for is called 101TV, which is a digital television channel (accessible via a decoder / settop box), that also offers it's content on-demand online via www.101.tv. Typical for 101TV is the concept of 'bit-sized television' which means that every program the channel broadcasts doesn't take longer than 5 minutes, like the channel is already zapping for you. 101TV makes these 5-minute max items in-house, and that's what I did during my internship (producing, directing, shooting and editing video-items). The items subjects vary greatly, as long as it's interesting television for the target audience, which is slightly younger than that of BNN. After my internship I continued working for 101TV on a freelance basis.

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