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Link roundup: Facebook deals, Times paywalls, ONA and news experiments

Mandy — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 22:49:30 +0000

Geolocation meets deals

Last news first. Facebook announced today that it will be doing more with its location feature, including offering deals tied to location. This could spell trouble for other geolocation providers like Foursquare and Gowalla, group buying sites like Groupon and, sadly, news sites looking for revenue streams. Facebook is offering these deals [...]

Four who influenced my approach to social media

Mandy — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 03:17:53 +0000

As part of their 35th anniversary, Poynter is crowdsourcing a list of the 35 most influential people in social media. They ask people to write Facebook notes or tweets recommending people for the list, with votes to come via re-tweets and likes.

This kind of voting system makes it very likely that we’ll see the 35 usual [...]

Uses for Foursquare in news reporting

Mandy — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 14:19:34 +0000

Aside from all the fun marketing options, Foursquare can be very valuable for reporters, bloggers and other news organizations. Here are a few suggestions:

1. Find a source with ties to a specific location

When you go to a venue’s page on Foursquare, you can see who has recently checked in there and who is there the [...]

Links roundup: Media law news, paid content and crazy ideas

Mandy — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:17:56 +0000

A roundup of recommended links from around the web on the Federal Shield law, newspapers as non-profits, who's charging for online content, removing content from Google, Twitter, news blogging networks and more. [...]

Making enterprise journalism “web reader” friendly

Mandy — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:13:29 +0000

Reporters who want online audiences to appreciate their lengthy watchdog pieces and enterprise journalism should consider writing a bulleted synopsis version to run online, a la Gawker. [...]