Making Media Connections 2009

May 4, 2009

Star Turn for the Colonel

Wondering why one of our keynoters appears to be a cartoon character?

Appearances are deceiving–this is one journalist who gets it:

You [newspapers] must learn to embrace your audiences, wherever they are. How will you do that? However you can.

… in the words of Daniel Honigmann, Colonel Tribune’s real-world representative.

Social-media addicts who follow the site Mashable will find this old news but for the rest of us, last week Colonel Tribune was the subject of a profile on the site when Stuart Foster interviewed the Colonel and Honigmann. Very instructive!

One Response

Colonel Tribune says:

May 6, 2009 at 1:05 pm

Thank you for the (digital) ink, folks. That interview was a blast.

By the way, I believe “Honigman” is spelled with one “n.”

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