Journalism
Life in the Kremlin's troll farm
Some fascinating reporting on Russia's misinformation operations, and how they aim to influence elections…
Social Media
Posts about social media platforms, how to use them and techniques for getting the best results.
elections
The social media election that wasn't
Dr Bart Cammaerts of the LSE [http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/polis/2015/05/12/did-britains-right-wing-newspapers-win-the-election-for-the-tories-spoiler-alert-probably-not-guest-blog/] : > What is clear, however, is that social media have had no or very little impact at all. The hashtag #Milifans and the nearly 10 million followers of comedian Russell Brand did not make
dating apps
"Dick is abundant and low value"
A woman's view on Tinder.
celebrities
The celebrity, everyone's social media pseudo-friend
Interesting exploration of the pseudo-relationships with celebrities that social media enables [http://www.psmag.com/books-and-culture/rihanna-doesnt-give-a-crap-about-you]: > Spitzberg describes how a fan might respond to something like a celebrity tweet and then, days later, see an unrelated tweet from the same celebrity and read meaning into it because they’
hype
It's an "influencer" bubble, not a tech bubble
Beware the hype of the social media gurus [http://observer.com/2015/04/how-to-survive-the-looming-tech-bubble-ignore-the-gurus/] : > So what we have here are ignorant people (Vaynerchuk, Brogan, Kawasaki, and friends) telling big brands and agencies to dump their money into unproven platforms, or platforms with really shady metrics that they can totally
content strategy
Going native with social media content
MG Siegler [http://parislemon.com/post/111101766802/can-snapchat-bend-content-to-its-will]: > True power is when media creates content explicitly for a network, rather than simply repackaging it. A useful insight. A lot of work has been done over the last decade on workflows and tech for pushing the same content through multiple
cropping
The (social media) crop shop
A handy guide to getting image cropping right for social media [http://alisongow.com/2015/03/09/off-with-their-heads-crimes-against-cropping-in-tweets/] – with links to tools: > The thing is, even when it looks normal in the tweet, the preview (these examples are from Twitter and Tweetdeck) often doesn’t. I learned bitter lessons
euan semple
Social media ennui, and its solution
Euan Semple perfectly articulates a phase I go through regularly: social media weariness. > Some days I get wearied by it all. The latest tools, the latest memes, the constant updates, the selling, the PR, the self promotion, the cats. I wonder if we’ve lost the plot and the
Social Media
Teaching a teenager about social media
Apparently a student on work experience at The Telegraph [http://tmgacademy.weebly.com/jashana.html] enjoyed my training: > One of the highlights during my week here, was getting the chance to attend a course with Adam Tinworth , a lecturer and journalist, called ‘Writing for the Web’. This course was
group messaging
Twitter joins the Group Messaging game - and brings video, too
[https://i0.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2015/01/twitter-group-messages.png] A big – but expected – announcement from Twitter today. Group messaging is here: 30 seconds of Twitter video Possibly more interesting from a journalistic point of view is the fact that they’re adding video natively into Twitter
Social Media
Your social media sermon for Sunday
Simon Gough [http://mistergough.wordpress.com/2014/11/23/group-love/]: > At some point, caring about how many friends and followers we have will be the preserve of the self-obsessed and the corporate. What really matters is what we can do; how we can embrace the fluidity of the web
"Twitter is our competition"
> “Twitter is our competition, we have faced up to that reality,” said Matt McAllester, Europe editor at Time. That’s a controversial start to a nice piece from Abigail at journalism.co.uk, from a Web Summit panel on journalism and social media [http://www.journalism.co.uk/news/