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Promoting your work online

There’s only so much your website and newspaper can do to get readers to your stories – the rest is up to you. You are in charge of your own “brand” as a professional journalist, so here’s some ways to get your work to more people. [...]

Get a Facebook url of your own

Facebook announced today that starting this Saturday, they will begin offering vanity URLs – custom web addresses – for all of their users. If you want yours, you’d better be ready Saturday at midnight. [...]

Recommended reading for May 28th-June 2nd

Recommended links from Twitter data mining and visualizations to a Twitter client for journalists, more hand-wringing from “the establishment” and tips on social media policies. [...]

Recommended reading for May 26-27

Recommended links include an explainer on the difference between Facebook groups and pages, the new social media editor at the New York Times and some handy rules for social media. [...]

Google has the new “must have” persona

The new Google profile rivals Facebook as your “must have” persona page. It essentially lets you control your name in Google searches – even if your company website has terrible SEO. [...]

A catch-up on recommended reading

These are my recommended links for the past couple of weeks (sorry, I’ve been busy!):

New ‘WSJ’ Conduct Rules Target Twitter, Facebook – These rules for WSJ staff could and should be applied at any news organization. You want your reporters to be out there in social media – but there’s so much potential for disaster if [...]

Recommended reading for May 6th

Links and tips about Linked In profile recommendations, Google’s new profile function and the future of journalism education. [...]

Recommended reading for April 24th through May 5th

These are my recommended links for April 24th through May 5th from Twitter tips to new online tools and industry news. [...]

Recommended reading for April 20th

Recommended reading about social media and new insights into the business of online news. [...]