Free Post comments The need for intelligent skepticism, proved through links Can you trust your commenters? Can you trust your transcription service? In the digital world, here be dragons…
Free Post facebook Facebook launches new Groups tools, and Google spends lobbying money on journalism Facebook does a good thing, and Google does something that merely looks nice. This is platform economy life.
Free Post newsletters Newsletters: Rise of the Blogletter Why today's newsletter actually take a lot from blogging and why The Economist is on Instagram: answered.
Free Post social media How do we solve our online civility problem? Some more thoughts on deescalating the culture war, as well as ways of looking better in your Zoom calls and an interesting new business opportunity…
Free Post social media Abuse, arrogant tech VCs and hypocrisy everywhere. It's time for the weekend, folks. The tech VC community shows its true face, social media gets toxic and… Oh, can we just have a break, please?
Free Post toxic communities Narcissism and toxic communities Dispatches from the dark places of community management, where comics pros groom young women, and My Little Pony communities get infested with Nazis…
Free Post social & digital lunchbreak Niches, networks and the secrets of TikTok revealed Useful reading on the future of publishing, the secrets of TikTok and the growth of online community during the pandemic.
Free Post audience engagement Social & Digital lunchbreak: the engaging, managing & uplifting edition Three helpful links (and a memorialisation of a failure) to help you find positivity in dark days…
Free Post trolling Engaged Reading Digest: the escalation of trolling to the global stage If you were in any doubt that the fundamental tools of the online troll are now at play in global politics, the last week should have put paid to that.
Free Post community management Naming and shaming is not a community management strategy The Bristol Post named and shamed abusive commentators. But that was the easy option.
Free Post tiktok TikTok is the social media hype cycle on speed TikTok stars are “fading” already - and the reason why suggests the challenge ahead for the platform.
Free Post Twitter Engaged Reading Digest: engaging ethically and slaying trolls The best of the web on engaged journalism ethics, troll fighting and mentorships.
Free Post engaged reading digest Engaged Reading Digest: image verification, cops on TikTok — and why celebs are using a social platform you've never heard of It's easy to get sucked into the idea that social media is mainly a promotional tool. Today's digest is a reminder that it's much more than that — for good and ill
Free Post engaged journalism Engaged Reading Digest: walking up the subs hill, radicalization on Reddit and more More useful reads from the audience engagement mines.
Free Post community management Engaged journalism, membership models and communities under attack: important new research from the Reuters Institute By deeply researching the audience engagement of three news outlets under sustained assault by hostile organisations, Dr Julie Posetti and team have come up with some vital work
