We’ve gotten rolling with social media at our company. Our editors are Tweeting, we’re on Facebook and we have our own Ning network. I guess I’ve been focusing all my efforts on winning people over on social media. Now that we’re all on the same page, everybody wants to know what the master plan is.
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Here’s some analysis of my first year of using Twitter.
- Been using since June 14, 2008, thru WhenDidYouJoinTwitter.com.
- 127 updates. I thought that number would be higher.
- 196 followers. I’m surprised it’s that many.
- We’ve had 392 visits to our magazine sites that originated from Twitter.
Just today I received a story lead through Twitter. I’ve [...]
Wow — this is a sign of a new day. From Poynter: FTC to Investigate Bloggers Receiving Pay for Posts.
I’ve always felt that it’s caveat emptor with blogs, but I can see the point. I like a nice separation of church and state, although the Internet has bent if not broken a lot of those [...]
I’ve been to the conferences and I know what the (current) Web 2.0 tools are. The obvious ones. And I agree. We should be using these tools. But how? Standing up in front of a bunch of editors and saying “Twitter,” like it’s completely self-explanatory, is just going to leave them confused, especially if they’ve [...]
We interview a lot of people, but unlike some newspaper reporting, the profile feature article needs to get to the core of the story subject — find out what makes a business owner tick. Wouldn’t it be great if you could just ask, “What makes you tick?” And the subject went on for 20 minutes [...]