Category Archives: Blogs
Palm Beach Post social media star: High school sports writer Jeff Greer
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 … Continue reading
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Palm Beach Post social media star: HistoricPalmBeach.com’s Michelle Quigley
Research librarian Michelle Quigley is the driving force behind The Palm Beach Post’s HistoricPalmBeach.com, as well as the blog’s Facebook page and Twitter account. The niche site has a loyal audience, including 1,600 Facebook fans, folks who post about their … Continue reading
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Bloggers’ Social Media Toolkit: Creating polls
Adding a poll to your blog post is an easy way to make it more interactive and appealing to readers. The Post’s editorial staff’s Opinion Zone blog and Andrew Abramson’s West Palm Beat regularly use PollDaddy, a free tool, to … Continue reading
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Bloggers’ Social Media Toolkit: Handpicking a few tweets to display
Last week I wrote about using Twitter.com widgets, the first of a Bloggers’ Social Media Toolkit series. In that post, I explained how Twitter widgets stream a live feed of tweets into your blog post, according to your search terms. … Continue reading
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Bloggers’ Social Media Toolkit: Twitter.com widgets
Twitter is like a digital version of the police scanners we have scattered around the newsroom: constantly chirping and sometimes with a lot of static, but sprinkled throughout with interesting and useful stuff. Bloggers, in particular, can take advantage of … Continue reading
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This week in social media: Good content drives the bus; plus, is Facebook taking over the Web?
It all starts with good content – without it, social media’s just glitter on a lump of coal. Once you have something valuable that an audience out there wants to read, then it’s only natural to think about different ways … Continue reading
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