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DBEDT Announces Details of Bond Issue to Support Green Energy Market Securitization Program
State Energy Office -- The Hawaii State Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism Wednesday announced the details of an upcoming offering of approximately $150 million of bonds to support the department's Green Energy Market Securitization program.
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State Energy Office -- The Department of Business Economic Development and Tourism welcomed the Hawaii Public Utilities Commission's approval of DBEDT's innovative Green Energy Market Securitization (GEMS) program.
Hawaii and U.S. Department of Energy Reaffirm Commitment to Clean Energy Initiative
State Energy Office -- Gov. Neil Abercrombie and Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz today signed a Memorandum of Understanding, reaffirming their commitment to the Hawaii Clean Energy Initiative, a long-term partnership to increase energy efficiencies and maximize the use the use of Hawaii's abundant renewable energy resources.
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Wielding power and oozing prestige, judges can be thought of as "rock stars of the law." But some judges are, in a more literal sense, rock stars.
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Judge Rader is not alone is making music as well as rulings. A Georgia jurist recently released a critically acclaimed album, in which his gavel-wielding fingers strum the guitar alongside some musical greats.
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The Screaming Eagles lost a hard fought battle to Lancaster Bible, 63-54 on Monday.
Both teams started off sluggish in the first half. The Eagles took an early 4-2 lead when Cheyenne Grant knocked down a jumper. CSE struggled to contain Aubrey Folger from Lancaster, who dominated down low, dropping 13 points and 9 rebounds in the first half. The Eagles found themselves trailing 15-8 before Grant nailed a 3 pointer, cutting the deficit to 4. The Eagles defense forced 13 turnovers, allowing them to come back and take the lead at 19-18. Ashley Pledger led the offense in the first half, dropping 8 points. Despite the Eagles shooting just 25 % from the field, they only found themselves trailing 28-22 at half.
The second half continued to be a struggle for the Eagles. Shanince Smith and Folger's size continued to give the Eagles trouble. Lancaster opened the 2nd half by hitting back to back 3 pointers, opening up a 12 point lead. The Eagles wouldn't give in however, quickly going on a 9-0 run to cut the lead to 39-36. The Chargers, however, would never let CSE get any closer, going on an 11-2 run of their own, to go back up double digits. The Eagles continued to have problems stopping Aubrey Folger, who finished with 26 points and 18 rebounds. The Eagles continued to fight, but couldn't mount another comeback, before falling 63-54.
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Also had a general question for anyone local in Conway..
Did anyone see this article in the printed version of the paper?
I am in contact with the Conway Daily Sun and they dont know what day it may have been printed on (or if it was printed or just web only).
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- Large donation to Fort Ord veterans cemetery
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- Fort Ord fight in store over plans
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- Fort Ord: Board of Supervisors delays decision on plan to sell open space
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- Fort Ord sell-off raises hackles
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- Fort Ord open space fight extends to state-ordered sell-off
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- Monterey County supervisors to reconsider Fort Ord land use finding
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- MPC plans become bargaining chip in Fort Ord ballot measure
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- Seaside's Fort Ord ballot measure challenge fails
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- Monterey Downs spent $86K on veterans cemetery petition campaign
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- Let the negotiations begin: Seaside picks possible developer for Fort Ord land
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- Seaside to mull spending $50K for 'education outreach' on Fort Ord land use
- Del Rey Oaks, developer headed to bankruptcy court in Delaware
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- Monterey County supervisors agree to open Fort Ord road despite concerns from hikers and bikers
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- Opening Fort Ord's Intergarrison road runs into resistance
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- Fort Ord veterans cemetery has extra money if needed
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- Fort Ord appraisal gets OK from Monterey City Council
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- Fort Ord's proposed veterans cemetery on track to get $1.5 million from state
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- Fort Ord Reuse Authority takes initial steps for special election
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- A primer on the dueling Fort Ord petitions
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- Businesses, veterans discourage Fort Ord open space petition
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- Group wants environmental review of Fort Ord land for veterans cemetery
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The battle over 540 acres on the county's former military base could cost taxpayers up to $1 million for a special election, according to the Fort Ord Reuse Authority.
FORA would have to pay for the countywide election — the first in its history — for two competing petitions on future use of Fort Ord land because it is the decision-making group for the former base. Executive Officer Michael Houlemard said initial estimates from the county put the cost at around $500,000 or more for each of the petitions.
The petitions need about 17,000 signatures each to qualify for the ballot.
Related: Lawsuit filed against open space petition
The Fort Ord Access Alliance seeks to make the 540 acres undevelopable, citing a desire to preserve land for recreation opportunities.
In response, a coalition of business interests and veterans created the California Central Coast Veterans Cemetery, Open Space Preservation and Economic Revitalization Initiative, which seeks to allow development in the area. They say it would allow surrounding communities to grow economically and would ensure an endowment parcel for the cemetery is unaffected.
Houlemard said FORA would seek a contract with the county to validate signatures.
He declined to guess when the election would take place, noting it was not a forgone conclusion all the necessary signatures would be gathered.
Houlemard said he assumed it was possible for the FORA board to accept a petition into its reuse plan without an election.
FORA chair Jerry Edelen said it was too soon to comment on what the board would do if it gets completed petitions.
"This is totally uncharted territory," he said.
He said the board's goal for the petitions was to be "as transparent as possible ... and not do anything to delay the process."
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New division alignments begin in 2014 and nine-game schedules start in 2016
UNL Chancellor Harvey Perlman"We are supportive of this option for Big Ten Conference football divisional realignment. It is the best option, and it will serve us well. One important feature is that it allows every football student-athlete to compete against every other conference team at least once in every four-year period."
NU Director of Athletics Shawn Eichorst"Commissioner Delany and our conference Chancellors and Presidents have taken a strong and positive step in aligning the Big Ten Conference football divisions based on geography, in addition to implementing a nine-game conference schedule in future years. These changes will have a positive impact on our great university, football program and Husker supporters. We are excited about playing more conference games closer to home and the ability to continue to schedule seven home games on an annual basis."
NU Football Head Coach Bo Pelini "First and foremost, our focus is on continuing to prepare for the 2013 season and the current divisional setup and schedule. Looking down the road, the Big Ten is such a deep and balanced conference that any way you divide the teams you are going to have two competitive divisions. Geography seems to be a logical way to determine the divisions, and it should allow for easier travel for our fans. The nine-game conference schedule will help improve the strength of schedules across the board in the Big Ten, and I think everyone anticipates strength of schedule being a key component for choosing teams to participate in the new playoff system."
Park Ridge, Ill. – The Big Ten Conference office announced football division alignments set to begin in 2014 and nine-game conference schedules set to start in 2016. The changes were unanimously recommended by conference directors of athletics and supported by the Big Ten Council of Presidents/Chancellors.
"Big Ten directors of athletics concluded four months of study and deliberation with unanimous approval of a future football structure that preserved rivalries and created divisions based on their primary principle of East/West geography," said Big Ten Commissioner James E. Delany. "The directors of athletics also relied on the results of a fan survey commissioned by BTN last December to arrive at their recommendation, which is consistent with the public sentiment expressed in the poll."
The new division alignments will feature Indiana, Maryland, Michigan, Michigan State, Ohio State, Penn State and Rutgers in the East Division and Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, Northwestern, Purdue and Wisconsin in the West Division. All schools in the East Division are in the eastern time zone and all schools in the West Division are in the central time zone with the exception of Purdue. Each school will play the other six schools in its division plus two teams from the other division in 2014 and 2015, which will serve as transitional years in which the schools will still be playing eight-game schedules. Beginning in 2016, each school will play three teams from the other division as part of its nine-game schedule. The cross-division games will include one protected matchup on an annual basis between Indiana and Purdue.
With the start of the nine-game conference schedule in 2016, teams from the East Division will host five conference home games during even-numbered years, while teams from the West Division will host five conference home games during odd-numbered years. As a result of the nine-game conference schedule and the Big Ten's schedule rotation, every student-athlete will have the opportunity to play against every other team in the conference at least once during a four-year period. The Big Ten is returning to a nine-game conference schedule for all teams for the first time since the 1983 and 1984 seasons.
"Big Ten directors of athletics met in person or by conference call six times from December to March to discuss a new Big Ten football model," Delany said. "The level of cooperation and collaboration was reflective of what we've come to expect from this group of administrators who have worked extremely well together on a number of complex matters over the past several years. We are all looking forward to ushering in this new era of Big Ten football."
The Big Ten will hold the 2013 Football Media Days and 42nd annual Kickoff Luncheon on Wednesday and Thursday, July 24 and 25, at the Hilton Chicago, featuring all 12 head coaches and some of the nation's top returning players. The 118th season of Big Ten football kicks off Thursday, August 29, and culminates with the third annual Big Ten Football Championship Game on Saturday, Dec. 7, to be played at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis and televised by FOX. The winner of the title game will earn the Big Ten Championship and a chance to play in either the Rose Bowl Game or Bowl Championship Series National Championship Game.
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Over its 93 years as a major force in the media business, Forbes has offered news consumers authoritative journalism with a clear and strong voice. We are unabashed champions of free enterprise. We celebrate the spirit of entrepreneurialism. We chronicle the ups and downs of corporate America and the people who pull its levers. We are the drama critics of capitalism around the world. We track and measure the wealth of individuals — and watch how they enjoy the results of hard work. We are about success.
The worlds we write about move faster than ever, producing stress, disruption and opportunity. Our very own news industry is in the midst of unnerving change:
– Who and what is a journalist when anyone can publish content or create a news stream for their friends?
– What's the best and most equitable way to compensate reporters and other content creators?
– How do advertisers (content creators themselves) better connect with and engage news consumers?
– In an era of social media, what's the future role of storied media brands that have served the public interest so well for so long?
I've lived through the changing media landscape for more than 35 years. I banged out copy on the very first CRTs as a college newspaper editor in the early 70′s. I lugged around a Teleram Portabubble, with a 300-baud modem and an acoustic coupler, as an editor at The New York Times in the early 80′s. Then I joined Newsweek as it was coping with the twin births of 24-hour cable news and USA Today's "McPaper" approach to journalism. In the 90′s, I got a taste of writing for tabloid television news during its heyday, then worked for a guy who built a computer magazine empire on niche advertising. As the millennium turned, I jumped head first into digital media and the roller coaster that was AOL, then started an online news platform company as the decade came to a close.
I've been lucky. I've seen a lot and learned even more from the smartest people in both traditional and digital media. As one who embraces change, being at Forbes at this very moment in time is exhilarating. Forbes had the courage to dive into the Web in the late 1990s while most of Big Media watched and waited. Now, we are moving ahead again by building a unique content engine for a new era, believing strongly that authoritative journalism, our nearly 100-year-old mission and the tenets of social media can together create a far more engaging and rewarding experience for business news consumers, journalists and our marketing partners.
Forbes is a traditional media brand. We are proud of our heritage, our values and our standards. We are not trying to be like the Huffington Post or Politico or Gawker — or like any other emerging digital brand that has leveraged the powerful tools of a new era. Still, it's been a difficult few years for us as the news business copes with wrenching transition. Our need to change, adapt and adjust is driven as much by industry economics as it is by technology and generational shifts. Newer audiences access, consume and interact differently with news and information. Our message remains as strong as ever, perhaps more so in a society that increasingly puts its hopes and dreams in the agile thinking of entrepreneurs. But today's creators of industries, companies and jobs — along with their audiences — have different attitudes about success. Sure wealth and riches are great, but what impact have you had?
I've lived more than half my journalistic career inside the Big Media bubble. It's a place where little is honestly revealed and few are allowed in. We want to share the next stage of our exciting journey, to be as transparent as possible about where Forbes is headed and why. We are humbled by the trust people place in our business journalism. As we innovate, we hope to hear from you so we can learn from you. With that knowledge and creative new ways of doing things, we can build the very best products for our loyal Forbes readers — and new ones, too. As it all unfolds, a venerable media brand will grow that much stronger.
What's New So Far
It has been a busy five months at Forbes:
– In August, we launched Phase 1 of a new digital publishing platform that jump-started our efforts to scale a new model for content creation.
– In September, we introduced a re-architected and re-designed Forbes magazine along with new Forbes 400 Web pages that combine real-time content, data and a social experience around each Rich List member. Over the next months we used these templates for the 100 Most Powerful Women, The Most Powerful People in the World and America's Best Small Companies.
– In November, we introduced AdVoice, a program that opens up our digital and print platforms so marketers, clearly labeled and identified as such, can publish content and join the conversation.
– In December, we released Names You Need to Know, a curated and crowdsourced Web and print project that enabled news consumers to participate in the development of the Dec. 20 issue of Forbes magazine by posting their ideas and suggestions online then sharing those contributions on their social streams.
All this is just the beginning of an iterative re-build of Forbes.com, further enhancements to Forbes magazine (such as perfect binding), an upcoming new mobile experience and additional iPad apps. Here's more of what's to come, including peeks at soon-to-be-launched Web pages, some early results and the broader thinking behind much of what we're up to.
The Content Model
Forbes has always hired skilled and experienced staff editors and business reporters. We will continue to do so. In fact, we've brought nearly a dozen full-time journalists on staff in the last six months, including one of the most respected correspondents in Silicon Valley as our new San Francisco bureau chief. Now, we're adding hundreds of knowledgeable contributors (250 so far) to our platform, each hand-selected by our editors for their expertise in certain topics, such as investing, personal finance, technology, business insights, leadership and success. This contributor group includes journalists, authors, academics — and business people, too.
How does all this work?
Staff members and contributors each get the equivalent of their own Home page, branded with their name, photo and their area of focus (here's an example). They post regularly and often (125-150 total posts daily at today's staff and contributor levels), building an audience around their reporting and followers who value their knowledge.
That continuous digital coverage also provides unique content for our magazine and our other platforms (of course, many stories are still assigned specifically for the magazine). Staff writer Andy Greenberg's online posts about computer security attracted an audience that included none other than Julian Assange, who agreed to a rare interview with Andy. The result: a cover package that gave our magazine readers a timely and unique look inside Wikileaks. There are many other Web-to-print examples. Other times, our online coverage sparks exchanges with industry leaders. Daniel Kennedy, an expert contributor who posted to our Firewall group page after Gawker was hacked, soon found himself in a digital dialogue with Nick Denton, Gawker's founder.
This is all part of our larger strategy to create a platform that puts authoritative business journalism at the center of social media. To help accomplish that, we'll enable publishing from every inch of what we call the "content continuum." That continuum includes our staffers, our outside expert contributors, audience members and marketers, with everyone clearly identified, delineated and labeled.
The New Newsroom
The economics of journalism are changing, forcing the development of new, more efficient and scalable models. With our content model, we're taking a hybrid approach to the challenge: we will continue to strengthen our staff of full-time editors and reporters as we recruit an extensive array of knowledgeable contributors, many of whom represent a new breed of incentive-based Entrepreneurial Journalists. Their incentive is the opportunity to begin to build a brand around their name and knowledge as part of a multi-faceted journalism career, earning freelance income tied to various performance metrics, such as their unique visitors, "Followers" and audience growth. We have started to implement these programs. For other writers and topic experts, the reward is an association with the Forbes brand and the opportunity to use our flexible tools and be heard in a highly credible business news environment. We are considering incentive programs for staff reporters as well.
With our staff and our growing pool of topic-specific expert contributors, Forbes is building a distributed force of individually branded content creators, all linked to one another under the Forbes.com umbrella. In effect, we're being less authoritarian and more authoritative. We are extending the Forbes brand to the larger "Network," tapping the talents and expertise of like-minded people who want to be part of an online forum of business information and ideas.
Our goal is to provide our curated content creators — and our staff of digital editors, reporters and programmers, too — with the very best tools possible to create, publish, promote and market content. We'll also provide our content creators with easy access to various media assets (photos, video, etc.) to help them enhance their story-telling. They can be their own photo and video editor — in effect, the creator, writer and producer of their content. To that end, we've highly customized the WordPress publishing system and also partnered with DayLife, Zemanta, Social Amp and other technology focused start-up companies.
Newsrooms have always acted as gatekeepers, or expensive layered bureaucracies, standing between content creators and their audience. In the digital space, our goal is to get out of the way as much as possible. We will "edit talent," that is, we will find the best staff writers and experienced contributors within certain verticals — and niches within those verticals. With our digital publishing infrastructure and our guidance they can do what they do best — create quality content. In turn, we'll carefully monitor that content, syndicate it and distribute it.
In an increasingly connected world, we're opening The New Newsroom so it can develop on-going relationships with digital audiences, other contributors and marketers, too. The result: an online news experience and publishing environment shared with the audience that is in sync with today's social media world. Business news consumers can "Follow" editors, staff writers and contributors; contributors can Follow other contributors; they can all Follow marketers who publish content on Forbes.com through our AdVoice program (see below). You can also Follow channels and topics. When you Follow multiple contributors and/or topics you receive daily or weekly email alerts. Further development work will enable additional social features for consumers.
There's much more to The New Newsroom, some yet to be developed and deployed — and even more to be learned from what we've put into practice. This diagram was first developed by True/Slant (the company I founded and that Forbes acquired in June 2010).
It's a top level view of The New Newsroom, a new kind of circular news process that takes in content; prepares content for syndication and Web distribution; analyzes audience usage, reaction and navigational behavior in real-time; evaluates the data and shares the learnings with editors and the content creators themselves; and ultimately guides the recruitment of new contributors and editorial coverage and programming strategies.
A key part of The New Newsroom is what we call the Feedback Loop. The New Newsroom is about great talent, but it's also about access to real-time data and analysis. Right now, each staff writer and contributor has a personal dashboard that details what's going on in their world, with updates every 15 minutes (editors have a consolidated contributor dashboard). All writers see their traffic (at the moment, unique visitors and page views); popular posts; reader comments on their posts; web sites linking to their posts; what the blogosphere is saying about them and trending topics on Twitter and Google. We'll supply them with more data and information in the months ahead, all to help them succeed in the new world of media. The data is to help inform their journalism, not rule it.
The Newsroom's Feedback Loop also includes what we call an Audience Development team that promotes content and analyzes traffic data, consumer usage patterns, staff and contributor performance, engagement and more. This team will prepare Playbooks for our staff writers and contributors. These information packets define audience interests and behavior on Forbes and the Web, and provide each staff writer and contributor with guidance on how to program and market their content to the Web's various information ecosystems.
As we continue to develop and staff The New Newsroom, we recognize that notions of "quality" for print and digital are somewhat different. In magazines, craftsmanship that produces a high level of "fit and finish" is critical. So is grammar, accuracy and sourcing, particularly given the finality of each issue. The reader expects the brand to provide a rewarding, self-contained and intimate experience that is highly professional and perfectly honed. In the ruckus of the online universe, quality is evolving. Right now, it's more about timeliness; iterative and updated story-telling; relevance; aggregation; individual voice; and dialogue. Digital news consumers help create their own experience through Search, RSS feeds and increasingly the sharing and recommendation tools of social media. The "link" and commenting provide digital consumers with an easy discovery mechanism to check accuracy.
With all this in mind, we're investing in the right editing and programming talent for the specific medium. Over the last few years, the trend has been to combine print and digital newsrooms, partly based on the belief that top editors needed to understand both mediums, partly for economic reasons. But there are highly skilled magazine editors who have one set of credentials and success metrics related to the intensity of story-telling, line editing and the detail of magazine publishing. They should focus on editing a magazine. There are also experienced digital product managers with a different set of skills and success metrics that lie at the intersection of Web publishing, content, technology and advertising. They should run Web site content verticals. That is exactly what we're doing.
Of course, everyone in the newsroom still works together to learn from one another, particularly in regular magazine story meetings where online product managers and print editors work hand-in-hand to bring great content to both the magazine and the Web. In a magazine, content equals stories; today, nearly all are still the work of our staff reporters. On the Web, content equals posts; contributors now account for a growing number. Stories and posts carry different demands, but at the core it's all content. It's exciting to watch talented magazine editors and Web programmers work together to shape content for one medium then at times use it for the other.
Channel Pages
Our new Channel pages — for Investing, Technology, Business and many others — launch in just a few weeks. You can see a current Channel page here, and a mock of the new Channel page below (click image to enlarge).
In building these pages, we had various constituencies in mind — consumers, marketers and, of course, our editors, staff writers and contributors. We wanted the pages to be authoritative, dynamic and transparent — and to embody the elements and functionality of social media.
These are some of the features and how the pages impact the different constituencies:
– Updated look and feel with a clean, easy-to-use presentation
– Easier Channel navigation through a new Global header
– Ability to "Follow" a channel, section or writer to receive a new customized and consolidated daily or weekly email digest
– Identifies writers as Forbes Staff or Contributors
– Real-time story and content streams with six filters to view Forbes content: All real-time content, Posts, Photos and Video, Magazine stories, Headline Grabs and Social (active conversations, called-out comments, trending stories, Twitter posts from Forbes staffers)
– New Global footer features Forbes Lists and programmed content
– Persistent sharing module visible in left rail moves as page is scrolled
– Contextually relevant video
– Modules for featured content and partner headlines
Editors, Reporters and Contributors
– Individual branding associated with every story
– Clear identification of Forbes staffers and contributors
– Ability to publish Twitter posts to relevant Forbes channel or section
– Top promotion block with six highly visual, editable and programmable feature templates
– A new programming tool that enables on-page editing (no more signing into other CMS tools)
– Options to "pin" and schedule elements in the streams
– Content flows into multiple channels and sections
– AdVoice posts (clearly identified and labeled) automatically feed into the relevant channel or sections pages
– AdVoice contributors (also identified and labeled) can appear anywhere a staff writer or contributor can appear
– New in-stream ad unit features the marketer's logo and text
– Increased promotional space for advertiser-supported special reports
– Flexible leaderboard for rich media ads
– A new ad unit for the video module that runs in sync with pre-roll
The Home Page
At Forbes, we like to say that we build from the "Inside-Out." That is, we start at the core and build out from there. That's why our phased re-architecture and redesign of Forbes.com began with our staff writer and contributor pages (August) and our Forbes 400 Wealth profile pages (September). These highly scalable pages lie at the very center of our content model and strategic plans, which include an expanding database of People, Companies and Places that will populate pages similar to the Forbes 400 Wealth profile page. This Inside-Out rebuild will continue throughout 2011, with regular releases of new screens and functionality.
This approach logically suggests that the Forbes.com Home Page, the front door to the site, is the last to be built. That is true from a functionality standpoint. But we've decided to launch an aesthetic refresh of the Home Page next month that will look and feel like the other core pages we have released. You can see the current Home Page here. You can see a mock of the new Home Page below (click image to enlarge).
One key change is the single photo promotion in a block at the top of the page. It replaces the carousel of content that exists now. In the future, this promotion block will include options for video, multiple photos and multiple headlines, much like the Channel pages. There are other improvements as well. The video module at the top right of the screen is now easier to navigate. About half way down the page you'll see a new Markets module (in partnership with Wikinvest) and the beginnings of dynamic, channel-based headline streams that include staff writer, contributor and AdVoice partner content.
Later in the year we will update the Home Page with exciting new functionality that focuses on aggregation, personalization and social media. It will also include more flexible ad units.
Contributor "Home" pages and Post pages
By customizing WordPress, we are building easy-to-use tools that enable staffers and contributors to post text, video, photos and photo galleries — and to filter headlines from around the Web that are relevant to their individual audiences. They will eventually be able to publish from their computer, a cell phone, an iPad or whatever device they choose. We are also providing easy access to photos and other media assets to help them enhance their work. Each contributor's Home page includes all their posts in reverse chronological order.
In the coming months, we will take this blog-like format a big step further. At the very top of a contributor's Home page we will introduce content streams similar to Channel activity streams that segment the contributor's work by media type. The news consumer will be able to toggle between these streams. One stream will include all posts from that contributor. Another will include video and photos. Yet another will be a social stream of conversations related to the contributor, both on Forbes.com and across the Web. A contributor's "Followers" will have a presence on the page, too. In effect, our goal is to capture a contributor's every impulse to publish content (be it text, video, photos or whatever) on any platform they choose to do it on (Forbes, Twitter, Facebook, Foursqaure or wherever) and integrate the audience in significant ways.
As it evolves, the Staff /Contributor Home page effectively becomes a profile page that puts the creator of authoritative business content at the center of a larger social news environment, somewhat akin to a Facebook profile page that puts the individual at the center of a social environment of friends.
The individual post page, however, is the most difficult of all screens to build and develop. It is the digital workhorse, creating limitless side doors into our site. Besides the central content and conversation, it must include multiple programming and promotional elements, many of which vary greatly depending on the contributor's channel, or topic focus. Significant updates to our post pages are planned in the months ahead.
The post page we have today carries individual branding, just like the Home pages for staffers and contributors. At the moment, its a functional and visual update to the one developed at True/Slant. It is clean and open with a large type font that has resulted in a signature look and feel. There is a contributor activity feed in the right rail that is the forerunner of our new Channel page activity streams discussed above. There is also a bio of the staffer or the contributor; on any post, you can tell from the bio what the content creator brings to the subject at hand.
Right now, our staff writers and contributors also have the ability to curate and moderate comments on all their post pages — to become part of the fabric of the community. They do so by "Calling Out" particularly interesting comments that further the conversation. Called Out comments appear when the post page loads. The entire unfiltered comment string (minus those flagged as abusive) can be found by clicking the "All Comments" tab beneath every post. Staff writers and contributors have free reign to respond to not only their readers, but also to comment on each other's posts. Their comments appear automatically, that is, without the need to be Called Out. The result is often a multi-faceted, author-reader-contributor-marketer conversation (cleanly designed to identify who is speaking) that can be more rewarding than the original post. This system enables the consumer — as a participant or an observer — to circumvent the noise of commenting. It often serves as a new form of story-building. Matthew Herper and Bob Langreth's coverage of the phrama industry brings them into contact with highly regarded academics and passionate investors. Their online exchanges — heated at times — have produced tips that have given Forbes exclusive magazine pieces and online posts ahead of the news cycle.
With further development work we will measure what we call desired user behaviors that will result in promotional opportunities for contributors and the ability for readers to have their participation automatically "Called Out," among other rewards.
In so many ways, the media has always been about barriers, or perhaps silos is more accurate. Journalists built silos for readers (Letters to the Editor), listeners (radio call-ins), or viewers (the glass screen pretty much kept everyone in their living room). They also put marketers in their own silo or two. Each of these vital voices of the media business was banned from any meaningful participation in hallowed news pages.
Then the Web arrived, followed by Search and then Social Media. The underlying technologies of each dismantled the silos. Everyone can now roam about and create content within close proximity of each other, connecting, communicating and learning.
At Forbes, we are beginning to open up our platforms so marketers can provide information and perspective and form new kinds of relationships with consumers and journalists, using the same tools as our staff writers and contributors. Their content is dynamically and contextually distributed throughout our site. All marketing participants are clearly identified and labeled. SAP, a leading software designer, kicked off our AdVoice program on the Web. Cadillac was our first print partner. Others have since signed on and will appear on the Web and in the magazine throughout the year.
The Future of News is Experimentation
Both traditional and digital media organizations are in search of new ways to meet the consumer's voracious desire to consume and produce information — and to be part of the conversation.
In June 2008, I started True/Slant with three other skilled colleagues (each of us had long careers in both traditional and digital media) to develop and implement many of the ideas discussed above. Along the way, two other talented people joined us. We had successes (building a solid first-phase contributor page), failures (we never figured out the right Home Page experience) and plenty of technology and business challenges to overcome. Perhaps our biggest accomplishment and joy was attracting and working with 300 experienced and knowledgeable content creators. These journalists, authors, academics and experts believed in our ideas and welcomed the chance — as we did for ourselves — to learn new skills and ways of doing what we loved. Two years later, five of us from that core team moved to the bigger stage of Forbes, another landed at The New York Times. We brought our thinking, the platform we built, the processes we implemented and all our learnings.
What True/Slant began continues to evolve with the help of many more smart and energetic journalists, technologists, sales people and business minds at Forbes. A distributed news force of perhaps 1,000 contributors plus our staff reporters in a social media environment at the scale of Forbes requires a hugely complex and flexible content management system. To build just that, the Forbes technology team is working side-by-side with those who built T/S, including one of its core developers and the team from Athletics, a UI and design collective in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. As all this unfolds, more T/S contributors also will likely find their way to Forbes.
How It's All Working
In the digital space, news organizations have many metrics of success: unique visitors, page views, repeat visitors and time spent. The ways of slicing and dicing it all are mind bending. There are also many ratings and measurement companies: comScore, Nielsen, Compete, Quantcast, etc; take your pick of what works for you. Those of us who have been at this for awhile look at all with a certain degree of humor and skepticism, still recognizing that data is important to what we do.
As we embark on our content strategy, we've kept it simple: produce great content and strengthen our audience. We've succeeded at both.
B.C. Forbes, our founder, talked about "Doers and Doings." In the last six months, the Doers on our covers have certainly had impact: Warren Buffett and Jay-Z, Bernard Arnault, Julian Assange and Arianna Huffington. We've also written about company Doings at Salesforce.com, Anschutz Corp. and Canada's Nygard International (this one's quite a sordid tale), to name just a few. Our Doers have passions, too. The Forbes 400 issue included "As Told To" stories direct from the mouths of 10 billionaires, including my favorite, Tom Siebel's chilling tale of being gored by an elephant on safari in Tanzania.
As for Forbes.com, it's early in our plans to get into many specifics (I hope to in subsequent posts), but I can say this with confidence. More digital business news users are seeking out our content. In November 2010, 29% of site traffic came from consumers typing in our domain name, bookmarks and alerts. That's up from 19% from just six months before. With other techniques, we've also significantly diversified our sources of incoming traffic. The Web is one big Network of users and we are effectively tapping many more of its information ecosystems. As I mentioned earlier, we're also producing many more quality posts, or stories (upwards of 150 per day), in areas that are important to us: among them, investing and finance, technology, business insights, entrepreneurialism, leadership, real estate, autos and travel. As we increase our contributor base, that number will rise. At the same time, our production of photo galleries, a favorite of consumers across the Web but often derided by those in the news industry, has fallen, both in terms of the number of galleries produced and the percentage of our overall traffic. Most important, we're developing new, more automated photo gallery tools that will enable our staffers and contributors to easily create them, thus providing an ever richer experience for the audience.
This is my second go-round at Forbes. My re-entry came 10 years after I left to join the world of digital news. During my absence and upon my return, many of my colleagues from traditional media thought I was done with print. That was never the case, even though I no longer have a newspaper delivered to my home and I'm more selective about my magazine subscriptions. Still, as they say, ink runs through the veins (which I almost painfully found out early in my career when a New York Times layout foreman promised to chop off my finger with an X-Acto knife if I ever touched a page proof again).
To my surprise, I'm discovering that many newer journalists — those who live and breathe the digital era — now see the value of a print heritage. As we recruit that era of talent, the chance to have a story appear in Forbes magazine is often the clincher to bringing them on the team. For news veterans, these are challenging times. There are fewer reporting slots available and most don't enable the kind of journalistic experimentation that is so much part of the future. At Forbes, we hope to provide such opportunities.
In re-architecting Forbes's digital and print properties, I find myself paying close attention to Gawker's Nick Denton, certainly a digital proponent, and periodically re-reading an article in The Atlantic Monthly by Andrew Sullivan, who also maintains a blog. Both push the envelope, but also respect the past.
Denton frequently writes online to explain in a very transparent manner Gawker's policies and changing strategies. In fact, this discussion of where Forbes is headed was somewhat inspired by Denton's most recent post detailing soon-to-be-released Gawker templates, which he describes as an effort to move beyond the blog as the Internet, television and magazines begin to converge.
Sullivan, both a prolific blogger and insightful magazine writer, wrote a riveting essay a few years back titled, "Why I Blog." It perfectly explains how digital and print news often go hand-in-hand. For me, his story struck a chord that just about said it all.
Reading at a monitor, at a desk, or on an iPhone provokes a querulous, impatient, distracted attitude, a demand for instant, usable information, that is simply not conducive to opening a novel or a favorite magazine on the couch. Reading on paper evokes a more relaxed and meditative response. The message dictates the medium. And each medium has its place—as long as one is not mistaken for the other. In fact, for all the intense gloom surrounding the news-paper and magazine business, this is actually a golden era for journalism. The blogosphere has added a whole new idiom to the act of writing and has introduced an entirely new generation to nonfiction. It has enabled writers to write out loud in ways never seen or understood before. And yet it has exposed a hunger and need for traditional writing that, in the age of television's dominance, had seemed on the wane. Words, of all sorts, have never seemed so now.
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Dr. Rajiv Shah serves as the 16th Administrator of USAID and leads the efforts of more than 9,600 professionals in 80 missions around the world.
Since being sworn in on Dec. 31, 2009, Shah managed the U.S. Government's response to the devastating 2010 earthquake in Port-au-Prince, Haiti; co-chaired the State Department's first review of American diplomacy and development operations; and now spearheads President Barack Obama's landmark Feed the Future food security initiative. He is also leading "USAID Forward," an extensive set of reforms to USAID's business model focusing on seven key areas, including procurement, science & technology, and monitoring & evaluation.
Before becoming USAID's Administrator, Shah served as undersecretary for research, education and economics, and as chief scientist at the U.S. Department of Agriculture. At USDA, he launched the National Institute of Food and Agriculture, which significantly elevated the status and funding of agricultural research.
Prior to joining the Obama administration, Shah served for seven years with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, including as director of agricultural development in the Global Development Program, and as director of strategic opportunities.
Originally from Detroit, Shah earned his medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania Medical School and his master's in health economics from the Wharton School of Business. He attended the London School of Economics and is a graduate of the University of Michigan.
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As you've probably had to explain to your grandparents, I'm Raj Shah, Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development. Hopefully that explanation was easier than usual, because unlike many audiences I'm asked to speak to, most of you have actually heard of USAID.
How do I know?
Last week, I sent an e-mail to our Agency's staff, telling them that I'd be at SIS and asking alumni to share their experiences. I assumed I'd get a handful of replies, with alumni telling me about their favorite classes or the name of a popular hangout that I could mention for an easy applause line. But then e-mails started flooding in. From Angola and the Philippines and Lesotho and Bolivia. From a gender advisor working to ensure pregnant mothers have access to HIV medication so their children are born AIDS-free. And from a member of our cutting-edge mobile partnerships team, who's helping transform Haiti into one of the world's first mobile banking economies.
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I consider it a true privilege to visit this university. Generations of leaders and scholars from this university overcame towering obstacles and deep injustices to shape a better future, and it's truly humbling to address students who uphold that tradition.
But I also consider it a privilege to speak before your class in particular, the Tuskegee class of 2012.
Thank you and good morning. I'm delighted to be here again today - it is always a pleasure to visit Kansas City. I first attended this conference almost a decade ago, when it was much smaller. The growth of this conference is one of the strongest affirmations of the importance of the work we do together. And this past year more than ever underscored the critical role of U.S. food assistance around the world. In any given year-not just in times of crisis-American farmers from more than 26 states provide food for our assistance programs. People here today know better than most the importance of our global leadership in providing help to those in need.
Last June when I visited Kansas City for this conference, the United States was in the midst of a full throttle response to crisis in the Horn of Africa. More than 13 million people in the dry lands of Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya, and Somalia were in urgent need of help, including more than three million in Somalia alone, where conflict exacerbated the most severe drought in 60 years. We had been tracking the potential of this crisis through the Famine Early Warning System (FEWSNET), a tool USAID has funded for the last 25 years that gives us much earlier and more precise data about climate conditions, projected rainfall, crop production and marketplace functioning. As a result of early warnings that FEWSNET began signaling in August 2010, we were able to have food pre-positioned by that fall.
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It is a great honor to address this forum on the challenge of delivering effective development assistance in a changing global landscape, characterized by what I call "the democratization of development."
The fact remains that almost seven million children, most of them in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia will die before they reach their fifth birthday. They won't attend kindergarten and they won't get backpacks or any other presents. Let's not be naïve. We know that preventable child death has always been a fact of life in human history. What is unique and what gives me pause both as the USAID Administrator and as a father is that for the first time in history we really do have the tools and know-how necessary to change this brutal fact of life. Many of them can in fact fit in the backpack. To demonstrate that to you I will show you some of my favorite ones.
Last year, for the first time in history, the majority of all people lived in cities. In China, the world's largest human migration in history continues to lead millions from the country's rural interior to its coast. In India, the migration pattern is North to South, from poorer states to megacities like Mumbai.
Today there are 60 cities in China with populations greater than one million; India has 45 while the U.S. and Europe have 25 combined. But it's not just Asia; Africa and Latin America both have at least 50 cities. And within those growing cities are slums-massive labyrinths of makeshift housing designed to accommodate the swelling ranks of the urban poor. Nearly everyone has seen images of slums like these either up close or in movies like Slumdog Millionaire. And they all look just like this: blue tarps, tin roofs, rubble and litter at every turn.
My first experience with dire poverty was in this exact slum-Dharavi, in Mumbai, India-where my uncle first took me on my first trip to India at age five. Because this is the image of poverty most of us are familiar with, most of us assume that this is how the poorest people in the world live.
But the most accurate depiction of poverty isn't this image.
This past year, despite enduring the long hangover of the global financial crisis, the fifty largest donors gave $10.4 billion dollars. Today, we at USAID are working to capture the tremendous potential of this community-partnering in new ways to leverage your experiences, expertise and resources. And focus on pivotal opportunities in development will enable us to get ahead of global trends that are placing unprecedented pressures on planet.
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Thank you, Ambassador Munter.
It is an honor to be here in Pakistan and see the progress of our work together. I am also pleased to have the opportunity to officially open this remarkable exhibition, showcasing the long-standing relationship between our two peoples.
In the 1950s, we helped bring the University of Karachi and two American universities together to establish The Institute of Business Administration-Pakistan's first business school.
Thank you, I am delighted to be here and to participate in this edition of the development forum.
To begin, I would like to congratulate Administrator Shah and the entire USAID team, both here in Washington and overseas.
During the past half century, USAID has served our nation exceedingly well.
For many years in many places, your agency has been the face of America, and a superb ambassador for the United States.
Two years ago, President Obama and Secretary Clinton both called for elevating development in America's foreign policy, alongside diplomacy and defense. They both believe that the development work USAID's staff does around the world was just as vital to our interests as the work of our soldiers and diplomats.
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