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

Mandy — Tue, 08 May 2012 21:45:20 +0000

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 – [...]

How news brands can get started on Facebook Timeline

Mandy — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 22:47:09 +0000

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

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

Mandy — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 00:53:09 +0000

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. [...]

How to Maintain a Safe, Positive and Public Facebook Life

Mandy — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 16:48:31 +0000

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

How To Set Up Facebook Subscribe For Journalists

Mandy — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 20:49:14 +0000

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. [...]

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

Mandy — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 03:16:53 +0000

If today's social media had been around, those who perished on September 11, 2001 could have been the storytellers of their own history. [...]

Facebook comments can’t guarantee a lack of anonymity

Mandy — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 13:52:30 +0000

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 [...]

Making community engagement an everyday process

Mandy — Sat, 02 Apr 2011 13:54:16 +0000

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. [...]

Channeling the news brand on Twitter and Facebook

Mandy — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 16:32:55 +0000

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

Accuracy and accountability checklist for social media

Mandy — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 15:51:09 +0000

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