Zombie Journalism

A very basic overview of Foursquare, Gowalla and other location-based services, including a glossary and tips for use.

Thanks to Facebook’s near-constant changes to their privacy settings, it’s tough to keep documentation on them up to date. In preparation for staff training here at TBD, I’ve completely overhauled these resources for anyone wishing to use Facebook for their professional journalism uses as well as their personal lives. I hope you’ll find these useful. [...]

Personally, I’m not a big fan of social media policies. While I recognize a lot of companies need to have these policies in place to cover their butts in court, I generally frown upon anything that gives journalists any excuse to not communicate openly with sources and/or readers via social media.
So this isn’t a social [...]

With limited staff resources, newspapers can’t chase every new social media idea that comes along – and that’s OK.

“New” Tools and Technology

Prior to its demise, Editor & Publisher had written about allegedly “new tools” the newspaper in Knoxville uses to police website comments. First of all, I find it alarming that anyone, particularly a publication supposedly in the know about our industry, would find this community management approach new or innovative. I say [...]

Social networking is supposed to be about connecting with old friends and making new ones. It can involve marketing products, but it takes individualized recommendations to be anything but spam.

If you allow employees to create your company’s Facebook fan pages on their personal accounts, beware. You may never get control of that page if the employee leaves the company.

Just how much personal info do you tend to share on Facebook? Probably more than you think. Luckily new privacy policy changes and a few handy links about privacy settings can keep your info safe (safe-ish?) on Facebook.

Check it -it’s a rundown of news and notes on social media innovations, more pay model plans and why you shouldn’t look silly on the internets.

Recommended reading on journalism industry news and analysis, social media ideas and how-tos and more news you can use.