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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
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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@shauntagrimes via Medium
When my daughter Ruby was 10, I bought her a copy of Raina Telgemeier's book "Smile." She was on the verge of getting braces to correct an underbite. She was scared, and I thought Telgemeier's graphic novel about her own experience with braces might help.
It did. Ruby's one of those kids who would rather be outside riding her bike or playing soccer than sitting down with a book — but "Smile" struck a chord.
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The Mission via Medium
Reading is dead.
The nature of books has evolved. Society and technology have changed. Forcibly, our approach to reading has taken on new forms to accommodate a different way of life.
The question is: For better or worse?
Although books give us new ideas, spark discussions, and explore topics in detail, the same information can be delivered in a variety of formats. When it comes to exactly how we should absorbing books, the debate rages on.
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Whither News via Medium
In journalism, we think our job is to "get the story." We teach the skill of "knowing what a story is." We call ourselves "storytellers." We believe that through stories — or as we also like to say when feeling uppish, "narrative" — we attract and hold attention, impart facts in engaging fashion, and explain the world.
My greatest heresy to date — besides questioning paywalls as panacea — is to doubt the primacy of the story as journalistic form and to warn of the risk of valuing drama, character and control over chaotic reality.
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Digiday
Subscription publishers have tightened their paywalls, plugging leaks and reducing the number of articles readers access before subscribing. But as reader revenue becomes more of a focus, more sophisticated ways of dodging paying have emerged.
There have always been a number of low-tech ways to circumvent cookie-based metered paywalls, where the same content is freely available in some but not all cases.
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Nieman Lab
"Let's enjoy it while it lasts" was a familiar reaction on social media when The New York Times announced that it would temporarily disable its paywall to mark World Press Freedom Day. The excitement of many users points toward a key development in online news of recent years: the rise of paywalls across online news sites, as publishers around the world try to find new, sustainable business models in order to make up for the revenue shortfall caused by a rapidly changing business environment.
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Columbia Journalism Review
In the last week of April, nearly 23 percent of all traffic to news sites tracked by web analytics firm Parse.ly came from search engines. Google alone accounts for nearly half of external referral traffic—traffic, that is, that comes from platforms, apps and other outside sources — to news sites. Together with the fact that Facebook referral traffic is on the wane, this means that Google's search algorithm is now perhaps the most powerful mediator of online attention to news.
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Adweek
When it comes to data, generational spreads are valued above all else. But lumping an entire generation together may not be the way to go, according to new data from consumer intelligence company Resonate. Gen Xers between the ages of 38 and 45, for example, use Twitter 11% more than the average consumer, while 46- to 53-year-old Xers are smack dab on the average for Twitter usage.
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TechCrunch
Mark Zuckerberg: "The future is private." Sundar Pichai: "The present is private." While both CEOs made protecting user data a central theme of their conference keynotes this month, Facebook's product updates were mostly vague vaporware while Google's were either ready to ship or ready to demo. The contrast highlights the divergence in strategy between the two tech giants.
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Architectural Digest
Spring is finally in the air, and in the Berkshires, so are traditional decorative arts techniques. On June 1, Nancy Lorenz is set to unveil an exhibition of her lacquer works, fittingly set in the galleries of the Berkshire Botanical Garden's flower-filled grounds. The show is titled "Shimmering Flowers: Nancy Lorenz’s Lacquer and Bronze Landscapes," but the works make excellent use of giltwork, gold leaf and mother-of-pearl as well.
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Crain's Chicago Business
Talk about seed money: Chicago Botanic Garden has received $10 million from Northbrook-based Negaunee Foundation to underwrite conservation science research and action programs. It's the largest gift in the garden's history that supports programming efforts; past eight-figure gifts have underwritten buildings and other capital projects.
The $10 million will fund the creation of the Plant Conservation Synthesis Center, scheduled to open in 2020.
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The New York Times
The vibrant, eye-catching works that fill the sculpture garden at the Smithsonian's Hirshhorn Museum make it easy to overlook their environs. An eclectic mix of installations, like casts of sculptures by Auguste Rodin and one of Yoko Ono's "Wish Trees," dot the space.
But since March, when the museum announced plans to redesign it to accommodate a wider variety of programming, the garden has become the subject of intense interest among aficionados of landscape architecture and Washington history.
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