Let me review my social media journalist checklist here.
Become my own videographer? Check. ✓
Blog often? Check. ✓
“Tweet” 5-6 headlines per day? Check. ✓
Give Laredo’s business community a chance to interact through online channels? Check. ✓
So I followed my list. Then everyone in the business world will want to get involved, right? Not so fast.
I believe [...]
Twitter and Facebook continue in the battle for your news judgment, your network and your willingness to publish stories you like.
Twitter countered Facebook’s “like” button today with the launch of a “Tweet” button. More than 30 large websites, many of them prominent news sites, changed their designs overnight to begin using the new “Tweet” [...]
Final results of a social media news survey conducted by TEKGROUP International and Associate Professor Ken Payne of Western Kentucky University seem to underscore the importance of getting news out to the public via social media.
In other words: What are you waiting for?
Top findings in the study of 545 active social media users between [...]
Top list story of the day: Top 5 Business News Websites
CompanyAGE.com is a brand new Web site created by a British entrepreneur who says he wants to share business experiences while delivering “short, snappy and interesting articles that are business focused.”
The website covers a range of company issues with regular daily updates. Bowen’s site [...]
Wednesday in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation announced the winners of its annual Knight News Challenge, a contest that funds ideas that use digital technology to inform specific geographic communities.
Twelve entrants were awarded a grand total of $2.74 million, the largest share, $400k, going to Eric Rodenbeck and his data [...]
How do blogs and social media stack up against traditional media by the beats or topics they cover?
Blogs are dominated by politics/government.
Twitter is filled with technology.
YouTube covers foreign events more than others.
Traditional press focuses on politics/government.
Those are the results of a new study by Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism: New [...]
News stories are becoming increasingly influenced by the growing band of ‘citizen journalists’, according to Broadgate Mainland’s Digital Trends survey, the only comprehensive survey covering the United Kingdom’s leading financial journalists.
Seventy per cent of financial journalists say their editorial views are affected by online comments on their stories or blogs from readers.
The Broadgate Mainland [...]
The news that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t care about Facebook users’ privacy was pretty interesting if a little jarring yesterday morning.
The way that Nick Bilton, lead technology writer at The New York Times, shared it for his nearly 11,000 Twitter followers was a little jarring for journalists. “Off the record” chat [...]
Straight from MIT is the Website Taste Predictor.
A Twitter tool circulating this afternoon promises to analyze your Twitter use and then suggest Web sites that you will probably like.
@BizJournalism, the Reynolds Center Twitter site, has more than 1,500 followers and we have tweeted more than 2,800 times on it during the year or [...]
