Category Archives: Social Media

Ragan.com: Study: LinkedIn top social media site for journalists

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"While more journalists are on LinkedIn than any other social network, they have increased their presence on other networks, too. The [Arketi Group] survey found that 85 percent of journalists are on Facebook and 84 percent use Twitter. Only 55 percent of journalists used Facebook in 2009, and 24 percent were on Twitter."

Bloomberg Blog: Introducing Bloomberg Queue

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"The way this new feature works is simple. You see a story you want to read, but you don't have time right then. Add it to your queue (using the + sign), and read it later. Or, if you've read a story and want to save it, you can do that too and "star" it, or search within your queue for it."

We'll also suggest stories you might find interesting based on what you've already added to your queue.

Joanna Geary: Privacy and social media investigation: how I tracked down an entire family from one tweet

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"It’s easy to say it’s incumbent on the individual to protect their own privacy, but it’s hard to see how we can always stop this type of jigsaw identification of people online. Sometimes people are mentioned online without them even knowing. Certainly having stricter default Facebook privacy settings would help, but it’s not the only answer."

GigaOm: How Chartbeat wants to help save the media industry — Tech News and Analysis

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"Online, every click and interaction can be tracked and charted and graphed over time, to create a picture of what is happening at any minute of the day. .,.. Chartbeat ... has just launched a ... service called Newsbeat to help provide that data.Chartbeat ... provides real-time analytics for websites of all kinds, with a dashboard that shows how many people are reading a particular page at any given minute, as well as where they came from and how long they have been on the site. ... The way publishers think about analytical data, Haile notes, is very different from the way that e-commerce companies do. Anyone who is selling something is obsessed with 'funnels' — in other words, how well their site moves someone to the point where they will buy the product. Publishers, however, are more concerned about where their traffic is coming from and maximizing that (as well as engagement with readers), because for the most part their business is advertising-based. "

ProPublica: How You Can Use Our ‘Opportunity Gap’ Project in Your Reporting

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"Our news application makes it easy to point readers to profiles of specific schools or districts. Here’s our guide on how to use it, including instructions on how to share your findings from within the app and how to embed a special link to it in your story. ... We’ve created special Facebook buttons all over our schools database. Use them to log in and share your observations and comments on school and district comparisons. Just fill out the 'share' box on the left and click 'post.'"

Fortune Tech: Twitter’s new plan: Commerce?

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"During a keynote interview at Fortune BrainstormTech in Aspen, [Twitter CEO Dick Costolo] was pressed about his company's business model. After discussing its various advertising options -- including its plans to eventually offer self-serve ads -- he mentioned how conference organizers and sports teams had used Twitter to find buyers for unsold inventory. For example, the San Diego Chargers were able to quickly sell around 1,000 tickets to a game that otherwise would have been blacked out on local television. Twitter itself didn't make any money on those transactions, but may look to do so in the future."

Propublica: The Opportunity Gap

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An amazing project: ProPublica's investigation into access to advanced courses in US secondary education includes a database of schools allows users to log in with Facebook to look up their school. There are individual pages for each state, district, and school, and a page allowing users to compare schools (and Tweet their comparisons).

Online Journalism Blog: What I learned from the Facebook Page experiment – and what happens next

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"It suits emotive material ... With most blogging it’s quite easy to ‘just do it’ and then figure out the bells and whistles later. With a Facebook Page I think a bit of preparation goes a long way – especially to avoid problems later on. ... The lack of tags and categories also make it difficult to retrieve updates and notes – and highlight the problems for search engine optimisation. ... short term traffic to individual posts was probably higher than I would normally get on the blog outside Facebook. On the other, there was little opportunity for long term traffic."