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GardenComm
GardenComm's biggest event of the year, the 2019 Annual Conference & Expo, is heading to Salt Lake City from 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
In this day and age nothing is more convenient than being able to whip out your smartphone to take a photograph. However, it's often the case that the resulting photograph looks quite different from how we saw the scene with our eyes. This is understandably frustrating! Join me in a webinar that will provide you with some solid tips and tricks to help with mastering the camera and apps on your phone so you can be ready to photograph any scene or object with confidence and get exactly the photograph you want in the gardening community and beyond.
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GardenComm
If you're anything like me in the garden, each act — pruning a rose, weeding a flower bed, deadheading the annuals — supplies its own metaphor. "Cut the dead wood out," your brain says with glee, as you actively do just that. I remember struggling with grass in a flowerbed — as you do — and imagining myself a dictator trying to "root out" the resistance. "But it's a grassroots movement," my imaginary underling whined, "We'll never get it all." Grass is tenacious.
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Adweek
The media landscape is evolving at breakneck speed, and the changes and challenges are real.
We've all seen the stats. Primetime TV viewing among 18- to 49-year-olds is down, cord-cutting and cord-nevers aren't just clever buzzwords, and long-established media companies are looking for the next pivot to sustain profitability.
If I had a penny for every time I've been asked (somberly) about the state of publishing, I could buy a pair of designer rose-colored glasses.
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Journalism.co.uk
With almost half of adults now using social media for news in the U.K., according to Ofcom's latest news consumption report, news organizations need to be thinking about how to cater for this growing audience.
One way to do that is with high-quality, mobile-first content. If you are looking to get started, four mobile journalists and trainers shared their best tips and tricks for producing simple yet effective stories.
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Nautilus
We are all storytellers; we make sense out of the world by telling stories. And science is a great source of stories. Not so, you might argue. Science is an objective collection and interpretation of data. I completely agree. At the level of the study of purely physical phenomena, science is the only reliable method for establishing the facts of the world.
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MediaPost
Publishers with stricter paywalls, email newsletters and clearly defined audiences were most likely to boost reader revenue, a survey of more than 500 digital publications found.
Publishers growing their digital subscriptions are outperforming the industry average by a factor of 10, according to the study by Harvard's Shorenstein Center and the nonprofit Lenfest Institute.
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Make your garden come to life with Sunfinity® Sunflowers that thrive and bloom continuously all season long.
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Prevent mosquitoes from spreading West Nile virus and other diseases with BTI, a natural bacterium found in Mosquito Dunks® and Mosquito Bits®. Float biodegradable Mosquito Dunks in ponds, birdbaths, rain barrels and any standing water to kill mosquito larvae. Use Mosquito Bits® in smaller places where water collects (such as plant saucers).
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INMA
Google's release of the Chrome 76 browser, which addresses privacy concerns yet could potentially unlock metered paywalls, has some publishers re-evaluating subscription strategies. The metered paywall remains the predominant subscription model in the Americas.
According to an international survey of 18 prominent news publishers conducted by INMA, the Chrome 76 browser and its implications raise questions about paywall revenue models and further complicate publisher relationships with Google.
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eMarketer
Straddling the analogue and digital divide, Gen Xers are readily reachable by marketers, but they can be picky about where and how they want to interact with ads.
We spoke with demographics thought-leaders about this generation's device usage and their attitudes toward advertising. Here's what we learned.
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Columbia Journalism Review
Facebook's announcement that it plans to syndicate news stories on its app has set off a train of "What does it mean for journalism?" questions. But the most pertinent question is what this move signals for Facebook.
The offer is remarkably simple, old-fashioned, almost. Facebook will pay publishers as much as $3 million (when and whether this would recur, Facebook hasn’t said) to supply stories for a curated section of its app called "news" that will be available to users in a discrete tab.
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The Verge
Twitter will begin allowing users to follow interests, the company said, letting users see tweets about topics of their choosing inside the timeline. When the feature goes live, you'll be able to follow topics including sports teams, celebrities and television shows, with a selection of tweets about them inserted alongside tweets in your home feed.
Topics will be curated by Twitter.
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Pew Research Center
Well over a year before the 2020 presidential election, many social media users in the United States are already exhausted by how much political content they see on these platforms.
Some 46% of adult social media users say they feel "worn out" by the number of political posts and discussions they see on social media, according to a Pew Research Center survey of U.S. adults conducted June 3-17, 2019.
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House Beautiful
There's nothing quite as inviting as a lush, green garden. But in today's era of increased climate change — meaning drought for several U.S. regions — thirsty, water-dependent landscapes are becoming a thing of the past. But don't put away your gardening gloves just yet: As it turns out, there are plenty of creative ways to cultivate gardens that thrive without so much water. Just ask Patricia Bennar.
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Newsweek
Honey bees are like the Kylie Jenner of the insect world: with an estimated economic value of more than $15 billion per year in the United States alone, we now know that the once underestimated honey bees are responsible for pollinating one-third of the food we eat.
Honey bees may be the most successful pollinators in the world; however, managed hives in the U.S. have been on the decline.
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WBZ-TV
Growing hope; that's what a woman dealing with the profound consequences of ALS is doing at a nursing home in Chelsea, Massachusetts. ALS, or Lou Gehrig's disease, is progressive, stealing its victims ability to move and speak. Well, this woman lets her gardens do the talking. "I like watching my babies grow. Some we planted from seed. It makes me have something to get out of bed for. I check on them at least three times a day," says 49-year-old Melissa King.
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