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GardenComm
GardenComm's biggest event of the year, the 2019 Annual Conference & Expo, is heading to Salt Lake City, Utah, September 4-7, and you're invited. This year's conference features a line-up of unforgettable events and experiences, including beautiful gardens, dynamic education sessions, industry all-stars, essential networking and so much more.
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GardenComm
Held annually for more than 20 years, the GardenComm Media Awards have recognized the top professional horticultural communicators in the areas of writing, photography, speaking, digital media, broadcast media, publishing and trade. This year's program features over 50 categories. All works primarily focused on horticulture and gardening topics are eligible. All individuals, producers and publishers may enter.
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GardenComm
GardenComm is excited to announce the fourth annual #GardenComm19 NextGen Scholarship to attend the 2019 GardenComm Annual Conference & Expo, September 4-7 in Salt Lake City, UT. This year, three scholarships will be offered, covering #GardenComm19 conference registration as well as up to $1,000 in travel ($1,500 value).
Ideal scholarship recipients work as garden writers, bloggers, speakers or photographers under the age of 40, demonstrating a commitment to horticultural communications.
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Science Daily
There is an effective formula for unlocking employees' creative potential, according to new research from the McCombs School of Business at The University of Texas at Austin and the Gies College of Business at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Employers should incentivize workers to produce an abundance of ideas — even mediocre ones — and then have them step away from the project for an "incubation period."
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Columbia Journalism Review
Last week, Google announced it would partner with McClatchy to fund three, new local news entities in communities of less than 500,000 people. This marks a change in how quickly the news business is being absorbed into the fringes of large technology businesses. For the first time, a major technology company is working directly with news executives to set up a local news operation, which it proposes to fund.
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Journalism.co.uk
Automated content has been a topic for years but it is still quite rare to find examples of media organisations who are employing it successfully, with some notable exceptions.
Sweden-based United Robots use bots to analyse and automate large datasets, and produce content on sports, property, local business and breaking news, with around 2,000 stories pushed out to its Nordic partners every day.
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The Guardian
Book editors love their jobs, perhaps more than the average worker. We work diligently with motivated and inspiring peers on projects we are proud of. You may not realize that every great book you've read has been through a rigorous editing process. If an editor's job is done well, you won't notice their hand in the final product — this is the invisible work behind each brilliant author, even (or perhaps especially) your favorites.
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MediaPost
U.S. local digital advertising is expected to climb 9.2% this year to $77 billion, according to Borrell Associates — rising as a percentage of all U.S. local advertising to a 63% share.
In 2018, the local ad research consultancy says digital had a 53% share of the $126.3 billion total U.S. local ad market — $67.4 billion.
Much of this digital ad activity comes from "pure-play" digital media companies — $57.1 billion — with $10.3 billion from traditional media companies.
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The Verge
There's a lot to evaluate about Apple's new News Plus subscription service, including if it's a good deal for the media business and forecasting how much of an existential threat it poses to an already at-risk industry. But inherent to those debates is whether iOS users actually use the service and find enough value in it to pay for it in the long run. Does it provide a decent user experience, and is it worth the $10-a-month subscription fee, considering it doesn't offer you a whole lot of actual hard news?
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The Wall Street Journal (subscription required)
Americans have a paradoxical attachment to the social-media platforms that have transformed communication, a new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll finds, saying they regard services such as Facebook to be divisive and a threat to privacy but continue to use them daily.
Across age groups and political ideologies, adults in the survey said they held a negative view of the effects of social media — even though 70% use such services at least once a day.
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The New York Times
Bill Mullen, a fashion stylist and illustrator, wants you to know that he used to wear a belt made out of teeth, skulls on every finger and cataracts of crosses, his exotic turnout once spurring a stranger to bellow, "Go for it, space monkey, go for it."
Solange Knowles is touting "Metatronia," an architecturally inspired performance piece conceived to explore the relationship of movement and architecture.
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Columbia Journalism Review
Facebook appears to be mounting something of a charm offensive lately. A commitment to fund journalism to the tune of about $300 million over the next three years was followed by an op-ed from CEO Mark Zuckerberg in The Washington Post suggesting ways in which the giant social network could (and should) be regulated. Then, the Facebook co-founder revealed in an interview with Mathias Döpfner, the CEO of German publisher Axel Springer, that he is considering paying news publishers for their content.
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Look for Surfinia Heartbeat petunia at your favorite garden center this spring! Pretty pink heart pattern grows with love and care. MORE
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Popular Science
As you enter the Conservatory of Flowers in San Francisco, there's a sign that politely requests you shut the door behind you. That's because the botanical garden's humidity and temperature are carefully regulated so the plants inside can thrive. Even if you lack the climate controls of a professional conservatory, you have some power over the conditions inside your home. Want to turn your bedroom into a tropical rainforest?
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Treehugger
One couple's infamous battle over the right to grow vegetables has resulted in a new bill.
A couple in Miami Shores, Florida, had been cultivating a front-yard vegetable garden for 17 years when, all of a sudden, they were told it was illegal. Apparently vegetable gardens were now only allowed in rear yards, but that wouldn't work for this couple, as theirs was north-facing and didn't get enough sun.
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Lifehacker
Habitat loss is a major factor in the decline of insect populations around the world, a trend that one group of researchers has warned could bring about the "catastrophic collapse of nature's ecosystems." For instance, the monarch butterfly population has fallen 99.4 percent since the 1980s — a precipitous decline that has wildlife conservationists calling for them to be listed as an official endangered species.
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