Posts tagged “Facebook”
Episode 20: Punctuation versus links
ХудожникБогородица Over at the Interchange Project Jeremy and I discuss the whole Jim Romenesko/Poynter affair and much more this week. We think both Romesnko and Poynter were in the right and wrong here. It’s complicated. We wish things would have ended better. Our discussion of Romenesko leads Jeremy to discuss how he handles miss attribution [...]
Who needs a business model, anyway? Online journalism does. #jcarn
This post is for the Carnival of Journalism. Every month some of the top journalism thinkers around get together to debate topics in journalism. What’s the biggest problem facing journalism today? Lack of journo-hackers? Not enough staff resources? Too little focus on mobile? Not enough data? Print curmudgeons? Lack of free coffee for employees? No. The [...]
Social media IS engaging in the political process
I have a voice. You have a voice. Everyone using the Internet to connect with people all over the world has a voice. We deserve to be heard. Social media is amplifying that voice, letting us reach people and institutions like never before. Smart companies and individuals have leveraged social media to connect with more [...]
Followers (or fans or friends) are not all created equal
It’s easy to get followers; it’s hard to get good followers. Be patient. There are a bunch of tools to get people and organizations a mass of Twitter followers quickly. But raw numbers won’t help you. What your organization needs are followers that actually care about your product and want to interact with you. That’s why I [...]
News orgs have forgotten that people really love photos
15 billion photos have now been uploaded to Facebook: The latest numbers the company has shared with us include 15 billion photos uploaded in total, an average of 220 million new pictures posted each week, and at its busiest, 550,000 images being loaded each second. Somehow news organizations lost sight of the fact that people [...]
It’s good to have non-wired friends
One of my good high-school friends signed up for Facebook last week. Yes, the same Facebook that, had you listened to the digerati, has jumped the shark. But Facebook hasn’t jumped the shark. It’s still becoming more popular and adding more features. Facebook may have jumped the shark for the kinds of people who have [...]
Rethinking Facebook as a more standard social network
As Facebook has evolved from a college-only network into a broader social network, so have my uses for it and my views on it. Traditionally, I used Facebook to connect with some of my closest college and high school friends. We’d exchange inappropriate wall posts, send news over direct messages, post photos of each other [...]