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Top 3 Twitter Tips

November 18, 2008

Top 3 Twitter Tips
Whenever I tell someone that I work in social media (and explain to them that social media is things like blogs, wikis, Twitter, Facebook, etc) they almost always come back and ask me what Twitter is and why someone would use it.
I’ll save that post for another day (although I’ve written about [...]

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Why Doesn’t Facebook Embrace Social Media?

October 14, 2008

Facebook is the 900 pound gorilla in the room when it comes to consumer’s ideas about “social media” and “social networking”, So why doesn’t Facebook embrace that fact and have a conversation with their own community?
Sure, they’re want to be a public company, they’ve got thousands of employees, millions of dollars worth of bills, and [...]

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Houston Chronicle Excels in Hurricane Ike Coverage

September 13, 2008

As someone who not only is interested in news and journalism, but who also works in social media for a living I constantly see television stations and newspapers who either don’t take advantage of advances in technology or completely ignore the true value in the power of people.
This morning as I think about my family [...]

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links for 2008-06-19

June 19, 2008

Making Light: AP to negotiate with sham “Media Bloggers Association”

AP and the Media Bloggers Assoc. » mathewingram.com/work |

BuzzMachine » Blog Archive » Whither the AP

The A.P., Hot News and Hotheaded Blogs – Bits – Technology – New York Times Blog
Seriously? Who do these people think they’re fooling?

Daily Kos: State of the Nation
More on the AP [...]

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links for 2008-05-30

May 30, 2008

Scoop08 | A New Kind of Newspaper node
Youth written election news and information site

D: Notebook – WSJ.com : Facebook Grows Up, Goes for an Ice Cream
Can Facebook make money?

NPR Desktop Alerts – News Alerts Delivered Directly to Your PC
What has been your experience in using this? I’ll have to try it out at home tomorrow.

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Why It’s PayPal’s Fault, Not The Browser

April 27, 2008

About a week ago there was some buzz floating around about how PayPal may block Safari because it doesn’t have phishing protection built in. This has since been retracted by PayPal:
PayPal: No plans to block Safari
A representative for PayPal on Friday said the ecommerce firm is developing features to block customers from logging into PayPal [...]

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links for 2008-04-10

April 10, 2008

MGM Grand’s IT green field: RFID meets alcohol; predictive modeling; bandwidth galore | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com

Social Media: The presidential candidates’ platforms

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Crossing The Skills Divide

April 3, 2008

There is an almost constant drone of phone calls and emails in my life right now, I’m right in the thick of finding a job for when I become available in May. It hasn’t been an easy road, but I’ve made great strides in my approach, the types of jobs I apply for, and the [...]

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What Radio Stations Can Do NOW To Gain Listenership

March 21, 2008

I’ll start by saying that radio is not my native tongue. I’ve done some editing and producing work for a local NPR affiliate but not much else. That doesn’t mean that my comments should be discounted, just that some of these may already be out there and I’m just not aware of it yet.
Here are [...]

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Journalists and Blogging

March 17, 2008

Journalists who learn to blog help their online sites grow beyond repuporsed print news | Howard Owens: “”

“Blogging is only as good as you make it”
This statement couldn’t me more true, today when I find a truly engaging and interesting news story you know what format it’s in? a BLOG. A blog with personal [...]

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