Category Archives: Community engagement
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
Filed under Blogs, Community engagement, Facebook, Social media, Twitter
Palm Beach Post social media star: Courts reporter Jane Musgrave
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 … Continue reading
Filed under Community engagement, Cool tools, Social media
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
Filed under Blogs, Community engagement, Facebook, Social media
Palm Beach Post social media highlights for February
For a daylong live chat on Signing Day 2012, Palm Beach Post college and high school football writers pitched in to take on on numerous topics, interact with readers and answer questions as players made their school choices official. Replay … Continue reading
Filed under Community engagement, Facebook, Social media, Twitter
The key to social media (to me): Sharing inspiring stories, listening and connecting
I spend a few hours every week at work updating Community Post, the social-media channel of PalmBeachPost.com that I created last spring. It’s a small part of the website that most people in the newsroom pay little attention to, and … Continue reading
Filed under Community engagement, Social media
Loyal, longtime readers praise The Palm Beach Post on Twitter, Facebook
On a recent Thursday I was catching up on our messages from The Post’s Twitter followers. Many of the direct messages we receive are responses to our auto-follow note that asks new followers whether they are locals. That morning, I … Continue reading
Filed under Community engagement, Facebook, Social media, Twitter
Live-blogging from court – using CoveritLive – invites readers to interact with the news
Susan Spencer-Wendel (@SpenWen), courts reporter for The Palm Beach Post for more than a decade, has spent the past couple of years live-tweeting high-profile trials. (In 2009, she played a role in media-law history when, on her behalf, The Post … Continue reading
Filed under Community engagement, Cool tools, Online journalism, Social media
New York Times journalists seek reader input on social media use
This is too good not to share: New York Times writers Nick Kristof and Brian Stelter recently sought feedback from their readers about what they like to see journalists do on social media. NYT social media editor Liz Heron tracked … Continue reading
Filed under Community engagement, Social media
New features aim to engage PalmBeachPost.com readers
Created with the philosophy that social media are more than just tools such as Twitter and Facebook, our website is launching a new section called Community Post, which focuses on our readers and their neighborhoods and allows people to share and … Continue reading
Filed under Community engagement, Social media
