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May's Hacks/Hackers brought us AMP-based web-design, Facebook fact-checking, AI email checks, and a new organisation to support women in their careers.

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Instagram and Twitter start the fightback against fake engagement

Two moves from major platforms — one small, one major — suggest the right direction of travel.

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Facebook distorts everything around the idea of engagement

Siva Vaidhyanathan, professor of media studies at the University of Virginia and the author of Antisocial Media: How Facebook Disconnects Us and Undermines Democracy, has some compelling theories on how Facebook became whaat it is.

Facebook asks publishers: are you local?

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Facebook asks publishers: are you local?

Ooops. He Zucked it again. For three weeks running now, Zuckerberg’s big blue monster is messing around with the Facebook and its relationship with news. This is an actual

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Life in the the Instagram engagement farming mines

Here’s a look at life inside the Instagram “influencer” bubble — and it’s not pretty: Unfortunately most of these brands and companies are clueless about the fact that some

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Facebook engagement plummeting: the free ride is over

Facebook engagement around publisher content is falling rapidly: There was a dip between July and September 2015, with numbers slowing down for many of the sites since then. The top

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All your comments are just marketing fodder

Adobe has bought comments system Livefyre. Has the software-and-services giant suddenly developed a taste for community building? Not so much: Livefyre, which was initially known for its technology that powers

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The true meaning of "audience engagement"

The true meaning of audience engagement Alison has posted an excellent piece cutting through the “buzz wording” of “engagement”, and hitting the heart of what matters: Audience engagement is a newsroom where the reader is considered at the start of the story process. It’

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Reddit for Journalists

Three speakers at news:rewired talking about use of Reddit in journalism, moderated by Mark Frankel, assistant editor, social news, BBC James Cook, Daily Dot There’s two main tasks: Finding new stories Sharing stories How do you get started? Sign up. That allows

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news:rewired - New forms of engagement for journalism

Matt Nevarra hosting Panel: Bella Hurrell, assistant editor, visual journalism, BBC News Ezra Eeman, founder, Journalism Tools Jo Kelly, head of audience engagement, Trinity Mirror Ben Fogarty, chief executive, Shorthand Bella Hurrell “Tell me something I don’t know” is a basic journalistic premise.

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Who can fix your comments? Your journalists

What happens when journalists interact with the comments section? Over a study period of 70 days, the TV station reacted to comments on its Facebook page in one of three ways: a prominent political reporter interacted with commenters; the station, using a generic station

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How to blog in three points

Fabulous post from Steph, encapsulating the essence of blogging: Blogging is about writing, but also about reading and responding. Links ensure that a blog doesn’t exist in a vacuum. The parallel human activity is responding to comments, reading other bloggers, linking to them

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Dissing engagement

Mark Schaefer provides more ammo to support my contention that engagement is becoming an empty word by pointing out that engagement is not a strategy: I do believe it is possible to create strategic advantage by delivering great content and executing a social media

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My Synthesio Session - the problem(s) with social media

I got interviewed… This week we’ve got influential blogger and consultant Adam Tinworth in our red leather armchair, to pick his brain about social media monitoring, the next big innovation he’d like to see, and other musings. Honestly, I’m just a

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Cool Content: Sarah Ellis is digitising Shakespeare

How do we interpret Shakespeare in the 21st century? That was the question that the RSC digital content team set out to answer in a project for the World Shakespeare Festival. There’s a awesome amount of digital content about Shakespeare online already. Why