Facebook Takes a Stab at LocalāAgain
“As it stands, Facebook’s latest local effort is of academic interest but hardly seems a reason for businesses to actively re-engage with the free side of the social giant’s features.Ā From a competitive viewpoint, it hardly seems the stuff of legend needed to take on the current local search hegemon, Google,” Mike Blumenthal tells David Mihm in their latest biweekly column.
Civilās Bold Plan for the News Crisis: āFlip the Business Model on Its Headā
In this Q&A,Ā Matt Coolidge, head of marketing and a co-founder at Civil, explains how a ānew economy for journalismā oriented around unifying publishers and their audiences is working to flip the business model for news through such innovative approaches as blockchain technology.