Rafat Ali
Mar 15, 2010 2:54 PM
At the Abu Dhabi Media Summit last week, I ran into Edward M Prince Jr., COO of National Geographic Ventures, the commercial arm of NatGeo, who professed to be a big fan of ours. So lo behold, considering the opportune moment, I did a short interview with him there, on…
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Rafat Ali
Dec 4, 2009 1:16 AM
ScienceBlogs, the science-related blogging platform owned in part by NYC-based Seed Media Group and German publisher Hubert Burda, has cut a strategic deal with National Geographic Digital Media, the digital arm of NatGeo. Under the deal, NatGeo will take a minority stake in the platform, and will also take over…
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Tameka Kee
Aug 10, 2009 3:30 PM
Funny how traditional media companies have begun to acknowledge social media expertise as a valuable skill ... National Geographic has brought in Robert Michael Murray as its first VP of social media. Murray will develop a complete social media strategy for NationalGeographic.com, including reader outreach and content syndication. This comes…
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Rafat Ali
Feb 24, 2008 7:08 PM
National Geographic is investing an undisclosed amount in online education and community startup ePals, and as part of the deal will also supply educational content for the ePals learning projects. NYT has a larger story on the company and the trend of for-profit philanthropy ventures. The Herndon, Virginia-based company started…
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