This chart shows the number of social media-generated clicks on a tragic PalmBeachPost.com story this morning out of suburban West Palm Beach: A body was found floating in a canal.
The clicks from 8:23 to 8:43 a.m. came from our initial tweet.
We saw the spike in traffic after posting a photo to our Facebook page:
Filed under Facebook, Social media, Twitter
Palm Beach Post high school sports writer Jeff Greer is not only active on Twitter and Facebook, he takes full advantage of a wide spectrum of social media by being heavily involved in blogging, reader feedback and video.
His use of Twitter varies. He tweets recruiting news, announcing reported scholarship offers to high school football and basketball players. He live-tweets sporting events, from the Miami Heat and Florida Marlins to high school softball. I interacts with his followers by asking questions such as, “Name your top five NBA players of all-time.” He’s also been known to post the occasional joke, such as this lighthearted photo.
On The Post’s PBGametime Facebook page, he and his fellow high school sports writer post photos, links to stories that don’t come through the feeds and interact with users. The page has 1,995 fans and counting. Continue reading
Filed under Blogs, Community engagement, Facebook, Social media, Twitter
By Breaking News Editor Rick Christie
It’s not often that we get to set a new standard for coverage.
But we did just that with our coverage of John Goodman’s high-profile DUI manslaughter trial.
One day in, it was clear that our initial plan to go with one reporter both for print and online was not going to be enough if we wanted to do it right. Continue reading
Filed under Community engagement, Cool tools, Social media
The niche site has a loyal audience, including 1,600 Facebook fans, folks who post about their own memories of Palm Beach County and in return get relevant and quirky facts from the place we live.
With Facebook’s new Timeline, Michelle posted historic events as Facebook Milestones relevant to Palm Beach County dating to 1696, when Jonathan Dickinson shipwrecked off Jupiter Island.
Michelle’s Timeline takes readers on a trip through local history, tracing such events as: Continue reading
Filed under Blogs, Community engagement, Facebook, Social media
Filed under Community engagement, Facebook, Social media, Twitter
Image via Wikipedia
Hello PBP Facebook page admins:
Every Facebook Page will switch automatically to the new Timeline layout on March 30, so we all need to start preparing NOW. If you like, you can manually switch over before then.
Some of the most important features are:
Here are some resources for more information.
http://www.facebook.com/nytimes
Go to Manage at the top of your admin panel, and use the drop-down menu for each story. Save your best posts as “Allowed on Timeline.”
http://www.facebook.com/about/pages
http://www.facebook.com/help/pages/new-design
Feel free to contact me with any questions you have, or stop by the Learning Lounge for Facebook Fridays resuming 3/9 from 10-noon and 2-4.
Filed under Facebook, Social media
