Social Media
Posts about social media platforms, how to use them and techniques for getting the best results.
Morning Coffee Reading, from the 24 hour social-media, digital-first world… Paid Members Public
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
The fall of MH17, told through social media Paid Members Public
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
30 tools to help journos use Twitter better Paid Members Public
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
Reddit for Journalists Paid Members Public
Three speakers at news:rewired talking about use of Reddit in journalism, moderated by Mark Frankel, assistant editor, social news, BBC
Taylor Swift, and the value of your Twitter followers Paid Members Public
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
Our Facebook masks slip a little Paid Members Public
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
Verification is so very hard Paid Members Public
Take a look at this video: Pretty clearly a concept video done by some students, right? That information’s all there, including the account name on Vimeo. Even the most cursory of verification checks would show that up. So, it’s not like anyone would publish it as a real
Reports of Google+'s death have been greatly exaggerated Paid Members Public
Google+ is still being developed. For now.
