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Events Happening This Week: Art Meets Technology, Successes/Failures In Crowdfunding, NYC Tech Picnic, And More!

So, you’re interested in crowdfunding? Or maybe you’re really into startup culture? Perhaps you’re a tech entrepreneur of some sort? Or I know, you want to know more about the intersection between art and technology. Not that? Ok, you’re super into data visualization? The future of mobile technology!? I think you get the point. No [...]

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Events Happening This Week: Crowdfunding 101, Lessons In Digital Advertising, Brunch!

This week we transition from April into May, welcoming the deepening of Spring in the air. There are, as usual, a number of interesting ways to celebrate the vibrant tech, digital, and marketing scenes throughout NYC. Check out some of our favorite upcoming events below, most of them collected by and courtesy of the wonderfully [...]

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Brands on Tumblr :: Magnet Media Minute [video]

In this week’s Magnet Minute, Amy shares some examples of big brands using Tumblr to engage their audiences. You may remember the primer video on how you can use Tumblr for your business’ online presence, so hopefully you’ll see some interesting strategies here and come up with ways to incorporate Tumblr into your digital marketing [...]

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Send The Right Message: Video Chats For Open & Honest Communication

Recently, a friend of mine posted on her social media feed that a guy she had been seeing had left a warm and lovely phone message on her voicemail. A message that was fully intended for someone else. Her story got me thinking about how we communicate using technology. My first thought was that if [...]

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Crowdwatch: Veronica Mars, the Crowdfunding Game Changer

The Veronica Mars Kickstarter campaign can only be properly construed as a legitimate game changer. Six years after an unceremonious exit from television screens, Veronica Mars fans have spoken — they want closure. The Veronica Mars team did everything right as far crowdfunded campaigns go: they set up a modest goal—$2 million—with small pledges (minimum [...]

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Events This Week: Tech Meetups, Video Networking, and Startup Incubation

Wow, it’s a busy week, with a ton of events happening on both coasts. Here in New York there’s a few tech meetups, an entire day dedicated to big data, and a video event hosted at Columbia University. As always, we get these events from garysguide, so check them out for even more fun stuff. [...]

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Highlights From Magnet Media’s Trip to South by Southwest Interactive

Over the last week, South by Southwest—the annual festival of music, film, and interactive technology—returned to Austin, Texas. The interactive portion rose to prominence in 2007, when it helped catapult Twitter into the greater public consciousness. Since then, it’s attracted the biggest names and the hottest startups in digital media and technology. Five members of [...]

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Tip Sheet: 5 Tips for the New Facebook News Feed

Last week at the Facebook headquarters in California, Mark Zuckerberg announced the biggest update to the News Feed since first releasing the feature in 2006. The update can be divided into three major parts: a greater emphasis on images, more user control over content, and alignment with Facebook’s mobile app experiences. “We want to give [...]

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Events This Week: SMX West, NxNYC, and Tech Meetups

This week in Austin, Texas is the legendary South by Southwest (SxSW). Most of our readers are probably familiar; but for those who aren’t, SxSW is a collection of world-leading festivals of music, film, and interactive technology. Since Twitter first came to widespread recognition at the 2007 SxSW Interactive, the tech portion has grown increasingly [...]

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Tumblr for Brands :: Magnet Minute [Video]

This week on the Magnet Minute, Amy discusses the popular social network Tumblr for the use of digital marketing strategy. A very popular and growing microblogging site, Tumblr achieves 18 billion pageviews per month to more than 86 million blog accounts. The interesting twist of this network is that it is both a blog and [...]

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