Here’s the transcript of my journalism jobs chat on Poynter.org Tuesday. There were a lot of great questions about what I do as a social media editor, the workflow, metrics, handling criticism and managing corrections.
We had more than 200 participants and more questions that I could get to in one sitting. If anyone has a question that didn’t get addressed, I’ll be happy to answer it in the comments.
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Tiffini Theisen
Hey Mandy, thanks for the chat. With Foursquare, does TBD have a partnership or agreement? Or did you just go in and create an account on your own? Thanks.
Mandy
We do not have a formal agreement of any kind with Foursquare. Unless you intend to pay them money for a badge, distribution deal or offer of some sort, they really don’t seem to have much desire to enter into agreements. I set up a regular account and worked with Foursquare to roll out a branded account page. All I had to do was give them the text and images for the page and they rolled it out in a few weeks.
At that time, they told me they’d be setting up a self-service option for brands wanting branded pages, but I’m not sure if that has materialized.