Twitter-Instagram photo war reveals new business realities of social networks
The photo-sharing turf war is escalating, with Twitter copying Instagram-like features and Instagram (owned by Facebook) no longer making its photos viewable within tweets. No matter which company...
View ArticleTV station says it fired meteorologist for replying to viewer on Facebook
Louisiana meteorologist Rhonda Lee was fired after responding on Facebook to viewer comments, including one about her hair. Her employer, KTBS, says she was fired because responding at all is a...
View ArticleWhat the world population is doing on smartphones and social networks
In the past year, American cell phone owners became more likely to use the Internet on their phones (51 percent, up from 43 percent in 2011) and capture pictures or videos (67 percent, up from 57...
View ArticleTV station firing renews questions about whether journalists should respond...
You may have heard the story of Rhonda Lee, a meteorologist at Shreveport, La., TV station KTBS who was fired for responding to viewer criticism on Facebook. The firing raises some old and new...
View ArticleWhen to go fast, when to go slow on social media
Reuters | Nieman Lab Ben Walsh writes that his unfiltered Twitter stream “was basically unusable as an information source” during the Newtown school shooting. Because he follows so many journalists and...
View Article‘Frictionless sharing’ is an instructive failure of 2012
Two of the news organizations that led the push into social reader Facebook apps are retooling their products, and Facebook itself is signaling that it’s time to leave behind the “frictionless sharing”...
View Article5 ways journalists can use social media to resurface old content
Journalists are finding that social media gives them ample opportunities to breathe new life into archived content. Recently, they’ve used social networking sites — while covering deaths,...
View ArticleSome news orgs’ social media policies are on shaky legal ground
The New York Times | Poynter If your social media policy prevents employees from saying anything bad about the company, it might be going too far. The National Labor Relations Board has weighed in on...
View ArticleThe journalistic pros & cons of Twitter’s new real-time video tool
Twitter just released a video-sharing tool called Vine that makes it easier for people to capture short clips and share them instantly with the world. Twitter bought a video startup by the same name...
View ArticleNew court ruling could mean news orgs’ social media policies are no longer on...
Associated Press On Tuesday Poynter suggested news organizations should take a look at their social media policies in light of decisions by the National Labor Relations Board. Publishers, you may...
View ArticlePew: 16% of Internet users use Twitter, 15% use Pinterest
Pew Pew released some demographic information on social media users Thursday. It may help dispel some myths. Who you think Twitter users are: Man joins Twitter, quits job (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)....
View ArticleWhat cognitive psychology teaches us about creating effective Vine videos
Lots of journalists have experimented with Vine since Twitter launched it nearly a month ago. They’ve created six-second Vine videos to feature input from readers, offer a behind-the-scenes look at...
View Article5 ways to engage more with your audience — in person and online
Talk about engagement with a journalist these days, and the conversation turns quickly to social media. Who can deny the influence of social media, which now serves as a news source for one-third of...
View Article5 social media strategy lessons from NPR
NPR’s social media product manager Kate Myers and business partnerships director Lily Ladd talked and answered questions for 90 minutes this morning about their organization’s approach to social media...
View ArticleScience reveals what really increases Twitter followers
The world of science has some new advice for people who want to increase their Twitter following, and it may sound something your mother used to say: If you don’t have anything nice to tweet, don’t...
View Article8 ways to attract more Twitter followers
To build an audience on Twitter, journalists have to strike the right balance. The key is to be authentic, without embarrassing your employer or wasting anyone’s time. Before typing the first letter in...
View ArticleTwitter research shows how multimedia increases engagement
To update an old saying for the Twitter era: A picture is worth a thousand characters. Research by Twitter shows that tweets that include a photo or video receive 3 to 4 times more engagement...
View ArticleSXSW session on Reddit misses opportunity for thoughtful discussion
The South by Southwest panel, “It’s Reddit’s World; We Just Live in It,” set out to answer a tough question: “How is Reddit’s power altering Web culture — and should we celebrate it, or fear it?” The...
View ArticleNews organizations can now see how their content performs on Pinterest
The image-sharing network Pinterest released a new analytics tool this week that serves up lots of data about how its users engage with your website’s content. Here are some of the questions you can...
View ArticleHow to use social media to get your next job
In this week’s career chat, we talked with Randy Essex, senior editor for local news at the Cincinnati Enquirer/Cincinnati.com and Kentucky Enquirer/NKY.com. Essex uses social networking sites to find...
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