Social Media
Posts about social media platforms, how to use them and techniques for getting the best results.
"Twitter is our competition" Paid Members Public
> “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/
Social media, data journalism and #gamergate Paid Members Public
I thought that yesterday’s brief post on #gamergate [http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/2014/10/obligatory_gamergate_post.html] would be all I had to say on the subject – but two really interesting posts caught my attention, that I want to bring to yours. First up, some serious data
Twitter's head of news out after a year Paid Members Public
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? Forget about them. Paid Members Public
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
De Rosa and the social media misinformation problem Paid Members Public
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,
Facebook demobbed Paid Members Public
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
Over a quarter of a million social media gurus Paid Members Public
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
Surviving the Facebook click-bait algorithm change Paid Members Public
[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
