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John Eckman

I'm a Sr. Director at Optaros, a professional services firm offering strategy, design, development, and consulting services to enterprises interested in leveraging free and open source software.

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November 16, 2007

Liveblogging Futures of Entertainment 2 - Metrics and Measurement Panel

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Metrics and Measurement - 1-3:30

Panelists:

Description:

As media companies have come to recognize the value of participatory audiences, they have searched for matrixes by which to measure engagement with their properties. A model based on impressions is giving way to new models which seek to account for the range of different ways consumers engage with entertainment content. But nobody is quite clear how you can “count” engaged consumers or how you can account for various forms and qualities of engagement. Over the past several years, a range of different companies have proposed alternative systems for measuring engagement. What are the strengths and limits of these competing models? What aspects of audience activity do they account for? What value do they place on different forms of engagement?


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November 13, 2007

Miro goes 1.0

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Miro, the open source video subscription management and player application about which I’ve blogged many many times (really many) , has finally gone 1.0!


video player

Check out the announcement on the Miro blog: Miro 1.0 is here.

There’s also:

October 14, 2007

Why Make Miro?

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Regular readers of Open Parenthesis know I’m a big fan of Miro (even back when it was the Democracy Player), the Participatory Culture Foundation, and Make Internet TV.

To help understand why, watch this video from Nick Reville, the foundation’s executive director, talking about the mission behind Miro.


October 12, 2007

Next Generation of Media Panel, Forrester Consumer Forum

Shar VanBoskirk leading a “Next Generation of Media” Panel

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Panel at Forrester Consumer Forum 2007

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