Tuesday, March 26, 2013

Five Ways For Journalists to Resurface Old Content

Meena Thiruvengadam
Poynter
Updated Jan. 22, 2013

Menna Thiruvengadam gives tips on how to use social media to find old content that you might have lost or are looking for. The first tip that she gives is to use Facebook's Timeline feature to organize your continuing coverage of your stories. "The Wall Street Journal used Facebook to create a timeline of its coverage of the Facebook IPO."

Another tip that she gives is to use Tumblr to share your photo archives with audiences. "In 2012, The New York Times took its Lively Morgue feature to Tumblr. Each photograph inclues a caption, date and name of the photographer who took it." Some of the photos that the New York Times used included a captions link back to some type of archived content.


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How to Become a Better Leader by Using Social Media

By Alexandra Samuel
The Wall Street Journal

Wall Street Journal contributing writer Alexandra Samuel writes takes a look at how certain social media sites like Twitter and Facebook, are contributing to business executives becoming better leaders. She also sees what mistakes the business executives are doing when they misunderstand things from social media sites.

"While blogging, Twitter and Facebook have brought new opportunities for conversation, knowledge gathering and relationship building, those opportunities may feel more daunting than dazzling to overloaded executives."  Samuel provides solutions like to stop looking at social media as something else that you have to learn and to start seeing it as "personal toolbox for improving your practice of leadership."


Read More: Wall Street Journal

Tuesday, March 19, 2013

Tensions Rising Between Facebook and Developers

By Evelyn Rusli
Wall Street Journal
Updates March 19, 2013

"Facebook has long had a complex relationship with developers as it balances a complicated set of interests. The company says it is stepping up efforts to police the network by curbing spam and restricting apps that aren't adding sufficient value to the network."

App developers who are trying to work with Facebook, say that the social media company are conducting a crackdown in an attempt to stifle apps that compete with services that are owned by Facebook. Another part might include an effort to get developers to pay for the adds that are now on the social media giant.

Applications that have been affected include "Vintage Camera," which is a photo-sharing app, that is owned by Antoine Marcos. Recently Facebook decided to block "MessageMe Inc," which is a messaging service that was launched days prior to it being blocked.


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Social Media Affecting Journalistic Objectivity

By Margaret Sullivan
Harvard Kennedy School via The New York Times
February 12, 2013

Margaret Sullivan who is the Public Editor of  The New York Times spoke to an audience at Harvard University's Shorenstein Center, on how social media is affecting old school reporting and objectivity. "Margaret Sullivan outlined two opposing sides on the issue of how social media is changing traditional reporting and objectivity. To illustrate the distinction, Sullivan used examples."

The examples that Sullivan used were for journalism purposes. The first example was Tom Kent who is the standards editor for the AP and the other example was Jay Rosen who is a journalism professor at New York University.

Sullivan goes on to explain both of their opinions on how social media is changing journalism.

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New York Times Article  




Tuesday, March 12, 2013

Facebook Unveils New Home Page Design

By Somini Sengupta
The New York Times
March 7, 2013

"Hoping to tame the blizzard of information that has turned off many users and discouraged some advertisers, Facebook on Thursday unveiled a major makeover of the home page that greets users when they log into the site." Facebook has gone through major changes before, but this one doesn't seem to be as drastic as others before it. You always want to keep things fresh and updating the home page is one way to change things up a bit.

"The changes are designed to address the company's two most vital challenges: how to hold on to users at a time of competing, specialized social networks and how to draw more advertising dollars to please Wall Street."

"The topic-specific News Feeds could well persuade users to spend more time scrolling through various streams of content. And the redesign will offer bigger real estate for advertisers."


Read More: New York Times 

LinkedIn: The Ugly Duckling of Social Media

By Evelyn M. Rusli
The Wall Street Journal

"LinkedIn was long an ugly duckling of social media. Investors puzzled over its hybrid consumer-and-enterprise business model." LinkedIn was founded in December 2002 and it was officially launched on May 5, 2003. Its primary use is for professionals who want to build their resumes. Another of its primary uses is its professional networking.

As of January 2013, there are more than 200 million users of LinkedIn and it is used in about 200 countries in the world. "LinkedIn also is pushing into content by aggregating business news and hosting expert blog posts, to give professionals more reasons to linger on the site."

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