Posts about social media platforms, how to use them and techniques for getting the best results.
Journalists
Twitter’s head of news Vivian Schiller is stepping down [http://recode.net/2014/10/08/twitter-news-head-vivian-schiller-out/]: > Vivian Schiller, the high-profile NBC and NPR exec whom Twitter hired to run its news unit, is leaving the company as part of a consolidation. Adam Sharp will now be in charge
influencers
Are you obsessed with finding “influencers” for your brand or journalism? Forget about it. It’s a fiction, an seductive idea that science does not support – according to a recent post on the Harvard Business Review: > Duncan Watts, a researcher at Microsoft who co-created one of the most important
digital journalism
Interesting interview with Anthony De Rosa [http://www.wework.com/magazine/inspiration/journey-worth-following-anthony-de-rosa-climb-from-tumblr-to-circa-editor/] : > Through live blogging, De Rosa says he began to learn the value of information verification. Social media poses an increasingly large problem in the spreading of false or inaccurate information. Especially in times of breaking news,
I just made a spur-of-the-moment decision – while sat in a local coffee shop – to remove Facebook from my iPhone. I’m not killing my account or anything like that – understanding how it operates is part of what I do – but the main app is gone. Why? Well, it’s becoming
nonsense
Social media gurus are breeding like rabbits roaches [http://www.whatsnextblog.com/2014-twitter-bios-show-epic-growth-to-297897-of-self-proclaimed-social-media-gurus/] : > The June 2014 What’s Next Blog social media guru Twitter Bio list (researched on FollowerWonk) has grown to epic proportions. The list now tops 297,897 – up from a mere 16,000 when we first
algorithms
[https://i2.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2014/08/jWtARPhoWqVxrSSD.jpg] One of the most dangerous things you can do on the internet is start depending on one other company almost entirely for your traffic. A few years ago, I ended up working briefly with a business that
Brilliant Noise
Five recent reads you might have missed, and are well-worth your time: It’s a 24/7 social media world out there Friends of the blog Brilliant Noise have done some research into the difference between “always on” Twitter presence and more sporadic approaches: Always-on is a more strategic and
digital journalism
Fascinating account from Storyful about their social media verification work around the downing of flight MH17 [http://blog.storyful.com/2014/07/19/how-social-sleuthing-uncovered-evidence-of-anti-aircraft-missile-system-in-eastern-ukraine/] : > In the aftermath of the attack, the Ukrainian Ministry of Internal affairs released the video below, described as showing a ‘Buk’ anti-aircraft missile system being
Journalism
Twitter’s UK in-house journalism expert and friend of the blog Joanna Geary [https://twitter.com/JoannaUK] has crowd-sourced a great list of 30 Twitter tools that are useful for journalists: Useful 3rd-Party Tools [https://twitter.com/JoannaUK/timelines/491934107853938688] Some are familiar and essential, but some are brand new
Three speakers at news:rewired talking about use of Reddit in journalism, moderated by Mark Frankel, assistant editor, social news, BBC
culture
Big surprise of last week: Taylor Swift had some really interesting thoughts about the intersection of tech and commercial art [http://online.wsj.com/articles/for-taylor-swift-the-future-of-music-is-a-love-story-1404763219] in a piece for the WSJ: > There are a few things I have witnessed becoming obsolete in the past few years, the first
Second video of the day: It’s rather ironic that it hit the web a few days before the news that Facebook is running experiments on our emotions [http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22229754.900-even-online-emotions-can-be-contagious.html#.U7KOUFbtlbz] . There’s a whole bunch of interesting research to be done on constructed