Social Media
Posts about social media platforms, how to use them and techniques for getting the best results.
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.
US Airways: that tweet explained Paid Members Public
An excellent explanation of how US Airways ended up tweeting the pornographic plane [http://barker.co.uk/usairways] – which explains why the social media guy didn’t get fired [http://mashable.com/2014/04/15/us-airways-employee-tweet/]. I’m pleasantly surprised about how maturely this has all worked out. Is the
Verify social media content - or look like an idiot Paid Members Public
The above photo was circulating Twitter yesterday, and at least two media outlets – Romenesko [http://jimromenesko.com/2014/04/14/bbc-caption-writer-having-a-bad-day/] and FishbowlNY [http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlny/news-segment-features-extremely-accurate-caption_b210228] – ran it as an example of a BBC captioner having a bad day. They found the image and they ran
Meet the new social media hierarchy, same as the old one Paid Members Public
Why social media feels so much less exciting [https://medium.com/meta/f774460d5a7d] when it’s established: > Open systems start with no hierarchy, so they look like meritocracies at first, but network effects mean newcomers create a hierarchy, often without even meaning to. We will never return to a
Journalism needs a new tone of voice Paid Members Public
This, I think, highlights one of the big challenge to journalists of the 21st Century. People are starting to associate the writing style we’ve been taught – CSWE, for Clinical Standard Written English, as the author defines it – with lack of openness. The legacy of social media is a different
The core difference between search and social Paid Members Public
Interesting column from John Gapper in the FT today. Here he’s talking about Jonah Peretti [http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/05c084ae-69cc-11e3-89ce-00144feabdc0.html], founder of Buzzfeed: > His insight was that sharing works differently from search. Search is a way to discover information, whereas sharing is prompted by
