In this discussion, we will show you how anyone can publish their work independently without the need fo one-sided contracts or deals.
In this interview we talk to Mickey Huff, Executive Director of the Media Freedom Foundation and editor of Project Censored.
We explore issues of elite media control and grassroots, global, digital empowerment.
We analyze contracts from American Idol, the Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN), and a boilerplate publishing contract to show the importance of controlling your rights.
This is the perfect interview for activists, authors, artists, journalists, filmmakers, musicians, and anyone with a message to share.
Seth Godin recently called Kevin Kelly's new book, "What Technology Wants," the Book of the Year, and feels it deserves a Pulitzer prize.
Hear more from Kevin in this exclusive interview, as David and Kevin explore how artists can make a living by finding and engaging with their TRUE FANS (customers, patrons, or friends).
Find out why Kevin Kelly feels that "anyone producing works of art needs to acquire only 1,000 true fans to make a living."
Learn how to find tens or hundreds of thousands of "lesser fans," and how to turn them into true fans.
Learn how to get your true fans to purchase nearly anything and everything you produce.
Fan funding: Explore real-world examples of artists using micropatronage to create your next business, book, music, film, or fund your favorite cause.
Hear how musician Jill Sobule raised $89,000 in just two months from her web site to create her new album - all from fan donations.
Why having a DIRECT relationship with your true fans is critical, and what tools you can use to DO JUST THAT.
Learn how to apply the True Fans model, using real-world case studies and best practices.
"Kevin's book could be sketchily summarized in fifteen or twenty blog posts, and I'm tempted to do so, but I think you should do the more direct thing and just read it. That way, as I steal from it again and again going forward, you'll nod your head in recognition of the power of what he's writing about.
Hint: it's as good as Guns, Germs and Steel, which I consider one of the most important big-thought books ever."
I disagree slightly with Seth - it's not the book of the year, it's more like the book of the decade, or century. That's because renaissances don't happen very often, but when they do, they span hundreds of years, and their impact is felt for millennia.
Like Douglas Rushkoff and Karen Armstrong, Kelly argues that we are in a renaissance period - a neo-axial age - full of creative opportunities afforded by the technology that now permeates our lives.
And further, our renaissance is less about the individual, and more about the collective community - a globally connected network of people interdependently collaborating together to create our shared present and future.
For those who've read my book or heard me speak - from the United Nations (3 times this year alone) to the US Embassy, from Columbia University to the University of Missouri School of Journalism - I've been saying the same thing: our neo-axial age and the technology that enables it gives EVERYONE the chance to "be the media."
We live in unprecedented times!
I was fortunate to have interviewed Kevin about his new book. You can listen to that interview below:
I'm also excited to annouce that Kevin will be our special guest on a FREE preview call for our Blockbuster Online Success Seminar (Boss) on Thursday, Oct 21 at 8pmET / 5pmPT.
His topic is focused on his viral blog post, 1,000 True Fans, which Kevin let us use as the Foreword to Be The Media!
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“This NOVEMBER you will learn how to make a living doing what YOU love, on your time, from your own home – all from the industry’s leading experts.”
Janet Switzer has been the 'secret weapon' behind many of the world's best-known authors, speakers and celebrity experts - Chicken Soup for the Soul® co-founder Jack Canfield, Automatic Millionaire author David Bach, underground marketing guru Jay Abraham, and The One Minute Millionaire author Mark Victor Hansen, among others.
Janet helps experts attain worldwide status and million-dollar incomes by building publishing empires around their business strategies, training concepts, industry expertise and unique market posture.
Her multi-media short-course How Experts Build Empires:The Step-By-Step System for Turning Your Expertise Into Super-Lucrative Profit Centers is the industry's definitive work on the subject of developing and marketing information products.
Today's guest is NY Times bestselling author Joel Comm. In this episode, Joel teaches you how to start and run your own online business that pays and pays.
Joel Comm is a NY Times bestselling author, new media innovator, and entrepreneur who has been online for over 20 years.
In 1995, Joel launched WorldVillage.com, a family-friendly portal to the web which enjoys thousands of visitors each day.
Joel is the co-creator of ClassicGames.com, which was acquired by Yahoo! in 1997, and now goes by the name Yahoo! Games.
Since then, Joel's company, InfoMedia, Inc., has launched dozens of web sites which offer online shopping, free stuff, website reviews and more.
Joel is an in-demand public speaker who leaves his audience inspired, entertained, and armed with strategic tools to create a new media campaign that will explode their business.
Today's guest is bestselling author Kevin Kelly, whose new book is titled What Technology Wants.
We're excited to have been one of the first interviews Kevin has granted regarding his new book!
Kelly's new book introduces a provocative view of technology, comparing it to a living, evolving organism that has its own unconscious needs and tendencies - even a drive towards sentience. In his attempts to discover "what it wants," Kelly uses examples from the past, and then forecasts into the near future to project where technology is headed.
The book is an optimistic look at how humanity and technology join together to produce increasing opportunities.
