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Are Facebook’s Social Reader Apps on the Decline – and Why?

The past couple of days have been a whirlwind of conversation between journalism thinkers over a reportedly huge drop in users for many news leaders’ Facebook social sharing apps in the month of April.

Some tech watchers and news app experts blame this drop in users’ fatigue with the “frictionless sharing” these apps encourage on Facebook – [...]

May 8th, 2012 | Tags: , , , , , | Category: Facebook, Industry News & Notes | One comment

How news brands can get started on Facebook Timeline

Facebook has debuted Timeline for pages. Here’s what news brand page managers need to do to get brand pages ready for primetime. [...]

February 29th, 2012 | Tags: , , , , , , , | Category: Facebook, Social Media | 11 comments

Holy engagement, Batman! How HuffPost blew up the State of the Union on Facebook

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: , , , , , , | Category: Community Engagement, Facebook, Social Media | 8 comments

How to Maintain a Safe, Positive and Public Facebook Life

Tips for maintaining a safe, positive and public Facebook life. [...]

November 16th, 2011 | Tags: , , , , , | Category: Facebook, Social Media | 2 comments

How To Set Up Facebook Subscribe For Journalists

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: , , , , | Category: Facebook, Social Media | 3 comments

What if we’d had today’s social media on 9/11?

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: , , , , , , | Category: Social Media | 7 comments

Facebook comments can’t guarantee a lack of anonymity

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: , , , , , , | Category: Community Engagement, Facebook, Industry News & Notes | One comment

Making community engagement an everyday process

This presentation is aimed at reporters to help them better connect with audiences, brand themselves and work more efficiently in the social sphere. I hope others may find it helpful/interesting. [...]

April 2nd, 2011 | Tags: , , , , , , , | Category: Presentations, Social Media, Surviving | 2 comments

Channeling the news brand on Twitter and Facebook

Tips for using Twitter and Facebook as a news brand for everyday interaction and breaking news. [...]

March 24th, 2011 | Tags: , , , | Category: Social Media | 9 comments

Accuracy and accountability checklist for social media

Journalists need to focus on accuracy and accountability in social media. I created a Twitter and Facebook accuracy checklist to help. [...]

January 18th, 2011 | Tags: , , , | Category: Social Media | 19 comments
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