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How Romney Learned the Hard Truth about Promoted Hashtags
Telling people to use a hashtag can turn around and bite you: “Thanks to Twitter's overdeveloped instinct for mockery, this is a fairly common tale. ... so common that it even earned an insufferably...
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How Journalists Are Using SoundCloud
“The initial wave of SoundCloud users from the radio world included CNN Radio, Boston's WBUR and KCRW in Los Angeles. Since then, the company has been cultivating the on-air community in earnest.”...
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13 Ways to Make Something Go Viral
Jonah Peretti is the founder and CEO of BuzzFeed. He writes: "BuzzFeed is a social publisher with 30 million monthly visitors and Facebook is our largest source of traffic." Then he tells you how they...
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Why Instagram will be the next big social media platform
“Of the Americans surveyed who currently use a social media platform, only 18 percent currently have a profile on Instagram. That’s paltry compared to Facebook (94%) or Twitter (47%). But here are four...
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Facebook changes mean newsrooms need new strategies for engagement
“Simply posting headlines and links has never been good Facebook practice. Now it will nearly ensure that your posts will get little engagement and exposure. Posts should be conversational, whether you...
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Photographers, embrace Instagram - CNN.com
An article by Richard Koci Hernandez, “a national Emmy award-winning multimedia producer who has worked as a photojournalist for more than 15 years. A two-time Pulitzer Prize nominee, he currently...
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YouTube's Top 1,000 Channels Reveal an Industry Taking Shape
This infographic shows results of an analysis of the top 1,000 YouTube channels: “... over one million YouTubers run ads on their content. To put it another way, YouTube writes checks to more than one...
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8 ways journalists can use SoundCloud
“1. To post news programming; 2. To report from the field and post audio from interviews; 3. Record, edit and upload a recording from an iPhone ...” and five more. (Published Oct. 17, 2012.) See it on...
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Time Magazine Hires Photojournalists to Instagram Sandy
“Time, however, took a different -- and in my opinion better -- approach, hiring five well-known photographers to man their Instagram account. “The resulting coverage is pretty fascinating to go...
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CNN’s head of social news: Twitter forces journos to report better
“Services like Twitter remind us that reporting just the facts of an event isn’t enough. We all hear about what’s happening from everywhere. What journalists and thinkers and experts in subjects that...
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Mozilla Releases Popcorn Maker - A Mashup Tool
“After watching the videos and poking around a bit, Popcorn Maker feels like Storify but with a video wrapper.” (Published Nov. 12, 2012.) See it on Scoop.it, via Social Media and Journalists
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Boston Globe's Instagram wall feeds its journalism
“The Boston Globe has a wall displaying every Instagram picture posted in the local area and is using it as a source for stories – such as to discover the sharing of photos by some people in Boston of...
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Social basics: 10 of the best engagement and analytics tools
“If you’re just starting out in social media and looking for something to make running and measuring your campaigns a bit easier, here are a few of the most widely used and effective social media...
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5 ways journalists are using Pinterest
Mainly they are sending people to older content that features photos. Hardly brilliant, but there is value in getting new visitors. (Published Dec. 10, 2012.)See it on Scoop.it, via Social Media and...
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How Social Networks Are Redefining Journalism
“... community manager Meghan Peters discussed how social networks are evolving their content strategies, with Jessica Bennett, editorial director at Tumblr, and Daniel Roth, executive editor at...
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Unwrapping Tumblr for Journalists: Tutorial
An EXCELLENT PowerPoint that introduces Tumblr and how journalism organizations are using it.SLIDE 25: Why Tumblr for Journos - Mine Tumblr for story ideas - Engage your readers (Tumblr followers) -...
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9 Ways You Should Be Using Twitter - Forbes
Every day I meet people who ask me why they should be active on Twitter and every day I see Twitter friends try to hide their frustration over those that don’t understand their attachment. Here are 9...
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8 ways journalists are using Spundge Notebooks
We created Spundge to make it easier for individuals and teams to find, share and publish content and expected our Notebooks would appeal to journalists. Not surprisingly, reporters quickly...
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Best practices for publishing user-generated content
"The Associated Press has updated its AP Stylebook with an expanded section on best practices for handling user-generated content. Here are a few of the AP Stylebook's tips."Mindy McAdams's...
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Social media searching: Practical pointers for journalists
"Claire Wardle, director of news services at Storyful, and Emma Meese, media and training development manager at Cardiff School of Journalism, shared their tips for how to make the most out of social...
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How to verify information from tweets: Check it out
“Your job is to verify the information that looks useful. As with all the other information you gather, you can verify lots of different ways, and no single technique works for everything.”Mindy...
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How news orgs are using RebelMouse for blizzard, Fashion Week
“If you haven’t seen The Wall Street Journal’s RebelMouse page for New York Fashion Week (NYFW) or their previous Davos coverage, you are missing out on some of the most rigorous and vital social beat...
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News organizations can now see how their content performs on Pinterest
"The image-sharing network Pinterest released a new analytics tool this week that serves up lots of data about how its users engage with your website’s content."See it on Scoop.it, via Social Media and...
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Toronto Star apologizes for lazy Facebook research
Bad Facebook journalism is popping up, because nobody really understands how it works. If only someone would pick up the phone to verify now and then.Mindy McAdams's insight:Journalists apparrently...
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Social media wiz shares wizdom
Jay Rosen teaches journalism at NYU, directs the Studio 20 program there, critiques the press and studies new media.Mindy McAdams's insight:This is a visual list of 10 tips for doing social media well....
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Verification Junkie
"A growing directory of tools for verifying, fact checking and assessing the validity of social media and user generated content." See it on Scoop.it, via Social Media and Journalists
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You don't tip competitors on Twitter; you beat them
"If we had the story first, we had the scoop. And you have the story first if you have it on Twitter and/or on your website. I’m going to respond here both to the reporter’s questions and to editors...
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15 tools to help journalists navigate social media
Journalists can try one of these 15 social media tools to find stories, interview subjects and stay organized.Mindy McAdams's insight:A list of tips and useful tools — from BBC journalist and social...
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Parse.ly study reveals best time to publish stories online
A report published this week by analytics platform Parse.ly highlights the times of day when online readership is highest and lowestMindy McAdams's insight:Across both mobile and desktop platforms,...
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How do you find useful Twitter accounts? 5 tips for journalists
A version of this post originally appeared on Help Me Investigate Welfare. Every so often on Help Me Investigate we compile a list* of people on Twitter to follow on particular issues. Here's how...
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