I’m relieved to be out of my social media editor roles because I’ve been worrying about my future and the future of the social media role at news organizations, for lots of reasons. [...]
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Archive for the ‘Social Media’ CategoryFebruary 3rd, 2012 | Tags: career growth, future of journalism, newsrooms, Social Media, Twitter | Category: Rants, Social Media | 24 comments
How did The Huffington Post get 32,694 Likes, 2,525 comments and 4,268 shares on Facebook for Obama’s State of the Union address? How about a sort of Facebook take on live-tweeting? It was an experiment, to be sure, but it seemed to work out well. [...] January 25th, 2012 | Tags: community engagement, engagement, experimentation, facebook, Huffington Post, interaction, Social Media | Category: Community Engagement, Facebook, Social Media | 8 comments
Tips for maintaining a safe, positive and public Facebook life. [...] November 16th, 2011 | Tags: community management, facebook, facebook subscribe, privacy, Social Media, tips | Category: Facebook, Social Media | 2 comments
Facebook Subscribe allows Facebook users to share their public updates with other users, even if they are not friends. I’ve created this step-by-step guide for users who want to take advantage of this feature without putting their own privacy at risk. [...] November 14th, 2011 | Tags: facebook, privacy, Social Media, tips, transparency | Category: Facebook, Social Media | 3 comments
Eds Note 10/5: It was brought to my attention that the links in this slideshow are not clickable in the embed here. I included them all below this post. Ever see a tip that’s too good to be true (it probably is) or a photo so amazing you just can’t believe it (don’t)? Sometimes you can’t just [...] September 23rd, 2011 | Tags: accuracy, crowdsourcing, new media, news tips, ona, Social Media, verification | Category: Industry News & Notes, Presentations, Social Media | 6 comments
If today’s social media had been around, those who perished on September 11, 2001 could have been the storytellers of their own history. [...] September 7th, 2011 | Tags: 9/11, community engagement, facebook, journalism, Social Media, Twitter, what if | Category: Social Media | 7 comments
ESPN’s reporters have a reputation of breaking sports news on Twitter, but the company’s new social media policy has banned it. [...] August 26th, 2011 | Tags: breaking news, ESPN, social media policy, social media strategy, Twitter | Category: Industry News & Notes, Social Media | 6 comments
On August 6 around 2 a.m. local time, a NATO helicopter carrying U.S. Special Forces troops crashed in eastern Afghanistan. The Washington Post had a reporter in person and on the story – but it took a long time for anyone to notice on its social media channels. A student from my summer social media class at Georgetown [...] August 22nd, 2011 | Tags: international reporting, Social Media, social media strategy, Twitter, Washington Post | Category: Social Media, Twitter | Leave a comment
There’s a conventional wisdom out there in the online journalism world that: 1.) News site comments will automatically be better if people have to use real names, and 2.) Using Facebook for your comments will accomplish this. I’ve said many times before that I don’t think anonymity is the problem. My campaign on that seems to be [...] August 19th, 2011 | Tags: commenting, comments, community management, Elliot Kort, facebook, news websites, Social Media | Category: Community Engagement, Facebook, Industry News & Notes | One comment
Please allow me to think aloud on the past 15 hours. We all acknowledge that the news of Osama bin Laden’s death broke on social media. We’ve all got stories about Twitter’s impact, roundups of Twitter reactions, tweet timelines and Storification galore – but did anyone in the heat of the developing news last night start engaging readers on [...] May 2nd, 2011 | Tags: breaking news, community engagement, curation, Social Media | Category: Industry News & Notes, Social Media | Leave a comment
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