Showing posts with label Shirky. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Shirky. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 7, 2012

How to Solve Clay Shirky's Filter Failure Problem

(See below for full 24-minute Shirky video on "Filter Failure")


What can you and other journalists do to help audiences "filter" through the information and find yours?
To help audiences filter out irrelevant information but find yours: 
  • Target your information to the appropriate audience 
  • Keep it brief 
  • Make the first word or two of your title serve as the filter