Social Media in the Newsroom
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Social Media “Guru”
By: Steph on: Mar 8,2013 In: Social MediaI came across a post on Tumblr from Wil Wheaton that talked about how social media “gurus” are pretty much just money-grubbing gits who fill your head with terms like ‘Klout score’ and ‘brand’ etc when in fact, social media isn’t that hard and you don’t have to pay these doofuses money to be involved [...]
Working with journalists on social media initiatives and devouring tech blogs that post a lot of social media analysis caused me to lose touch with reality a little. It’s easy to be in my bubble surrounded by people who easily switch between Facebook, Twitter, and Google Plus while happily trying out whatever new social media [...]
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Learning valuable lessons in the newsroom
By: Steph on: Sep 13,2011 In: Social Media, Tools of the trade, Working on the NewsroomYesterday, I learned a few things about the ever-uphill road of getting reporters on board with Twitter and/or Facebook. Here is an email I sent out to everyone that, I swear, started off with just wanting to share a helpful link with them and keep Twitter in their minds: This is an EXCELLENT resource for [...]
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- Tags: Droid, Facebook, newsroom, reporters, Social Media, technology, twitter
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