Like Adam wrote on Monday, for nearly five years Daniel Sieradski, aka Mobius, has been the editor-in-chief of Jewschool. Jewschool is a popular, multi-author blog and Daniel is a prolific blogger. Today he announced that he’s leaving Jewschool and he’ll rarely be blogging on his personal blog because he’s been hired at the Director of New Media by the JTA.The JTA added blogs to the mix in the last year, building up a stable of bloggers to address all areas of Jewish life. (Disclosure: the blogger that writes Good for the Jews is my friend Esther K.) Think about it, the JTA got going during the First World War as the Jewish Telegraphic Agency and has continued to evolve with the changing media landscape.
Daniel will be responsible for the website, blogs, podcasts, video and other media. Kudos to the JTA for understanding that social media is so important that it was time to bring a blogger into the fold as a Director of New Media.
If a decades old Jewish Media service is embracing new media, social media, web 2.0; isn’t it time to other Jewish outlets to start looking into using it?
More on this:
http://www.jewlicious.com/?p=3725
http://www.forward.com/articles/11404/
and btw, welcome back… its been too long.