Yesterday, the FORA.tv audience saw what happens when a 166 year-old media giant joins forces with a fast-growing online video start-up. The result: The Economist and FORA.tv publishing videos from The Economist Marketing Forum. The Economist, in the words of one of its legendary editors, is famously dedicated to throwing “white light on the subjects …
Monthly Archive: March 2009
Mar 18
Twanks Again
In continuation of our ‘Twanks’ series – where we say thanks to FORA.tv’s wonderful Twitter friends – we present three great Tweets. Just yesterday, @cjwach (Casey Wach) tweeted: twitter your top 3 websites that some may not have heard of. Mine: www.ted.com, www.fora.tv,www.thedailybeast.com Casey has a whopping 17,105 followers (yowza!) and is Washington, DC-based. Casey, …
Mar 17
Brain Candy: FORA.tv Now Available on iTunes U
Brainiacs rejoice! FORA.tv is now live on iTunes’ academic wing, iTunes U. We’re proud to rub elbows with some of the nation’s top educational institutions in what looks to be a very exciting new forum for online classroom media. FORA.tv is breaking into the world of iTunes academe with six exclusive tracks featuring some of …
Mar 10
FORA.tv Traffic Soars: Tops Charlie Rose
Compelling new programs ranging from videos from the Entertainment Gathering Conference in Monterey, to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, to a fascinating series on Hollywood Between the Wars have vaulted FORA.tv into the major leagues of online video viewer rankings. According to Compete.com, a media-industry standard in online traffic measurement, FORA.tv bested Charlie …
Mar 08
FORA.tv Studios Present The Lost City of Z
On Thursday, David Grann, a New Yorker staff writer and author of the new bestseller The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon , joined Phil Bronstein, San Francisco Chronicle editor-at-large, at the new FORA.tv Studios to engage in a spellbinding discussion about one of the most harrowing, adventure tales …
Mar 06
Lite On Its Feet, FORA.tv Profile Feature Packs a Punch
Getting To Know You.We are a curious bunch, we FORAns. While we realize the last thing you might want to do is to create yet another online profile, we do ask only for the basics (but always want to hear more!). Like other social spaces, FORA.tv is even more interesting when you have the chance …
Mar 02
Twanks: A Weekly Shoutout to FORA.tv Twitter Friends
Each day, we are amazed by the amount of connectivity, sharing, and discovering happening on Twitter. And, after seeing the incredible love for FORA.tv being expressed, we decided it was time to give it right back. So, we’ve decided to dedicate a weekly post to one or more Tweeple who have made us smile (and …