If you’d a discount off the ticket price of Syracuse University’s “Monetizing Online Business” conference tomorrow in New York, let us know with an email to “info AT teemingmedia DOT com.” They’re nearly full, but have offered the deal to friends of Teeming Media as a courtesy.

Some of the speakers:

David Zaslav
President & CEO
Discovery Communications

Larry Kramer ‘72
Writer, Media Consultant & Adjunct Professor
S. I. Newhouse School, Syracuse University

Dennis Crowley ‘98
Co-founder
Foursquare

Jonathan Dube
Vice President & General Manager
ABCNews.com

This will be the first of a seven–part educational series of social media events which will cover the full spectrum of issues regarding social media (e.g., how to utilize it to promote business and build a brand/franchise, personal branding for your career, measuring ROI , etc.). At the end of the event, volunteers will be stationed at the computers for hands-on show-and-tell.

Moderator: Dorian Benkoil of Teeming Media.

Date: Wednesday, June 16, 2010
Time: 6:30 - 8:30 pm (includes refreshments, one-hour panel discussion and Q & A)
Location: The Samsung Experience, 10 Columbus Circle, 3rd Floor, New York 10019

Cost: $25 for Columbia Business School Alumni Club members/ $35 for Non-Members

Click here for more info.

We didn’t even realize there were eight pointers in Dorian’s talk with executives, staff and teachers at the Poynter Institute last week, but that’s how many the ever able Steve Myers of Poynter found when he wrote it up for the Institue’s e-Media Tidbits column (awful name, but great stuff), to which Dorian also contributes. The pointers, via Steve:

- Cash makes the difference
- Keep a close eye on how quickly you get paid
- Strive to create revenue streams that complement each other
- Be conscious of the advantages and disadvantages of different forms of revenue
- Be open to building a revenue stream that’s different from your perceived core product
- Strive to increase advertising revenue with content-specific ad networks
- All page views aren’t equal

And the full piece is here.

Dorian is in Ft. Myers, FL to speak “Social Media” at the 18th Annual CASE Conference for Institutionally Related Foundations. CASE, the Council for Advancement and Support of Education, is a professional association s the professional association that helps educational foundations do their work: raising money, reaching out to their communities, and the like. About 60 percent of the attendees expressed at least some skepticism about what social media can do for a foundation in a survey we had them take before the conference. We’ll try to demonstrate that social media can be a powerful tool for a community organized around an educational institution — in fact, for those doing it, we bet that almost seems obvious.

Here’s the program description, and links to some material we’ll draw on.

“Harnessing the Power of Social Media.”

Twitter, Facebook and blogs are just some of the powerful tools you can use to build and solidify your foundation community. But how do you launch and then, and once they’re built, how do you get the community you want and keep it engaged and contributing — time, energy and money? What are the pros and cons, and when do you NOT want to use them? How do you establish goals, then measure your effectiveness in reaching them? In an engaging 75-minute session, digital media strategist, trainer and entrepreneur Dorian Benkoil will use real-world case studies and his own experience and knowledge to demonstrate in a hands-on yet strategic way what social media tools can do for you and your foundation, and how to use them.
Speaker: Dorian Benkoil, Founder, SVP, Senior Consultant, Teeming Media

How Charities Harness Social Media to Raise Awareness, Money (PBS MediaShift) (Client of Teeming Media)
Earthquake confirms value of social media (Miami Herald)
Social-Media Contests Bring In Donations and Enthusiastic Supporters (The Chronicle of Philanthropy)
The WhatGives!? PayPal Donation Widget For Nonprofits

Dorian will be headed to ‘We Media’ in Miami tomorrow morning. There, he’s to (finally, for those who’ve been waiting) talk to AP CEO Tom Curley, on camera, and the following morning to Aki Hashmi of AllVoices.com.

Live from the offices of the Interactive Advertising Bureau, the
trade association for interactive marketing in the United States, Dorian Benkoil of Teeming Media sits down for live video discussions with IAB president and CEO Randall Rothenberg, Magnify.net CEO Steve Rosenbaum and Blip.TV co-founder and COO Dina Kaplan.

Topic

We’re excited to do our first show from the IAB offices as part of our new partnership with the organization. We’ll first sit down with IAB president and CEO Randall Rothenberg to get his take on why “advertising is creepy,” as the IAB says in its new campaign to fend off privacy legislation, and talk about other industry trends and news. Then we’re joined by the founder and head of video platform Magnify.net, Steve Rosenbaum, and Dina Kaplan, co-founder of Blip.TV. We’ll talk about what is and isn’t working in video, about trends in curation and aggregation, details of sponsorship and revenue, and, of course your questions.

Plus, as always, Dorian’s “Shallow Thoughts” on the media, and recent coverage and interviews from industry trade shows.

And, of course: your questions. Send some now and sign in to get an email reminder before the show is live, December 9, 11:30 a.m. ET.

Register now to ask questions and get in on the discussion right away.

On Naked Media: Dorian’s Shallow Thoughts on Nick Denton’s “evil genius” in launching the “Dark Facebook” and moderating the opening panel at the Economist’s Media Convergence conference with guests Craig Newmark of Craiglis; Mark Hollinger, Chief Operating Officer, Discovery Communications; Thomas Hesse, President, Global Digital Business, US Sales and Corporate Strategy, Sony Music Entertainment and Robin Johnson, Chief Executive Officer, FT Search Inc. Newssift.com (a new semantic search engine for business from the Financial Times company).

Avner Ronen, CEO of fast-growing media aggregation and social networking startup Boxee, doesn’t shy from speaking his mind — even when it gets him in trouble with major TV networks. Betsy Morgan knows TV networks from the inside — she led CBS News digital — and how to bring a startup to the next level, as the CEO of Huffington Post.

We’ll ask Avner and Betsy your questions as well as things on our minds, such as: Can Boxee negotiate the TV network demands and ongoing disputes with Hulu? What’s up with their recently-announced redesign and new features? Can Comcast’s attempts to challenge Hulu possibly succeed? Why did Betsy leave (was she really booted?) the HuffPost and what’s next for her? Whither HuffPost now that a venture capital executive is in charge? And money money money: who’s making it, how to make it, and much much more.

Plus as, always, the innovative ideas and “aha” moments you can use, fun with Dorian’s “Shallow Thoughts,” and other recent coverage.

Register now to ask questions and get in on the discussion right away. You will also receive a reminder email to tune in for the live show the day before.

We spend a lot of time thinking about business models, the best way to get audience, revenue, build the right system that will increase advertising, revenue shares, transaction fees, registrations and on and on.

We (sad to say) don’t ask enough “what’s right for the user,” the audience, the reader the media consumer. Today, after Naked Media, Complex Media CEO Rich Antoniello expressed his belief that open, open-source, HTML, cross-platform, sharing, was the way it would go, that media had to go. I (Dorian) agreed and immediately thought that was best for the consumer — and that by orienting ourselves that way we might be oriented in the right strategic direction, as well.

Here are the start. Tell us your thoughts, too. The Media Consumer’s Bill of Rights.

Here’s the script for today’s Shallow Thoughts, airing on Naked Media at noon ET, then later on demand.
Our guests are designer Roger Black and Complex Media CEO Rich Antoniello. More details are here, where you can sign in to watch and ask questions.

And here, from Peter Kafka is a more serious take on what Comcast is doing and the possible implications for TV networks and consumers.

The script:

OK, SO NEXT MONTH COMCAST IS GOING TO START A NEW SERVICE TO LET THEIR PAYING CUSTOMERS GET CABLE TV PROGRAMMING ONLINE.
It’S PART OF WHAT THEY’RE CALLING “COMCAST ON DEMAND ONLNE” OR, SOMETIMES, “TV EVERYWHERE”
OTHERS ARE CALLING IT THE “ANTI-HULU.”

BUT WAIT, DIDN’T COMCAST LAUNCH A SITE CALLED “FANCAST” THAT HAD A LOT OF FREE PROGRAMMING FROM HULU, ALREADY?
AND CAN’T I ALREADY GET A LOT OF CABLE PROGRAMMING ON HULU FOR FREE?

AND DON’T THE TV NETWORKS THAT PROVIDE HULU’S PROGRAMMING ALSO PROVIDE A LOT OF PROGRAMMING ON COMCAST?
AND DIDN’T THEY SAY THAT TIME WARNER IS IN AN ALLIANCE WITH COMCAST TO TEST THIS NEW SERVICE?

AND DIDN’T COMCAST SAY THEY’RE GOING TO USE FANCAST TO LAUNCH THE NEW SERVICE FOR 5,000 OF THEIR PAYING CUSTOMERS?

SO LET ME GET THIS STRAIGHT: COMCAST AND TIME WARNER ARE GOING TO LAUNCH A SERVICE TO COMPETE WITH HULU USING THE PLATFORM COMCAST USES TO PLAY PROGRAMMING FOR FREE THEY GET FROM HULU.

GOT THAT?