Category Archives: Facebook
Web producers with good social media instincts are newsroom gold
Being social media editor is easy when you have journalists on your team who really get it! I try to use this blog whenever I can to give shout-outs to co-workers doing good things with social media. Palm Beach Post … Continue reading
Filed under Facebook, Social media
Facebook adds “view shares” to help page admins track viral activity
I’ve been using third-party services like OpenStatusSearch.com for several months to track social mentions of The Palm Beach Post. Now, Facebook has added this tool to its own Insights for page admins, and today I saw it in action for … Continue reading
Filed under Facebook, 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
Social media news roundup: New Palm Beach Post tweeters, Facebook search changes, more
With the addition of The Palm Beach Post’s new Tallahasse bureau reporter John Kennedy, who tweets as @JKennedyReport, plus new tweeters Dara Kam (@dkpbpost) and our Step by Step fitness blogging team (@pbpstepbystep), there are now 39 Twitter accounts associated … Continue reading
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Social media news roundup: New Post Twitter account, Google gets more social and more
Fit for the Twitterverse: The Post’s Step by Step blogging team is now on Twitter! Follow @pbpstepbystep and get health and fitness updates from Ken Bohannon, Keely Gideon-Taylor, Jeff Ostrowski, Jane Smith and Michelle Quigley. They’re just getting started, and … Continue reading
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15,000 Facebook fans for The Palm Beach Post!
No video this time like we created when we hit 10,000 fans back in October, but a good opportunity today to pause, thank our fans and get feedback from them: (Plus, a nice shout-out for us from the Facebook + … Continue reading
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Alpha dogs and underdogs of social media
New-media watchers and bloggers are starting to pay more attention to differences between some mainstream news organizations’ sizes and their social media presence. Many large legacy organizations were that slow to embrace social media are still behind the curve. This … Continue reading
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Tone in social media for news organizations
A disclaimer: Although I write often on this blog about my work at The Palm Beach Post, this is a personal blog and the opinions I express are my own, not my employer’s. In a shift that’s still relatively new … Continue reading
Filed under Facebook, Social media, Twitter
Top 10 Palm Beach Post staff articles shared on Facebook in 2010
These are the stories that took on a life of their own and went viral on the enormous social networking site this year (through Dec. 25). Click on any image to read the story.
Filed under Facebook, Social media
The media and Black Friday mania
The media always go insane with Black Friday coverage, and The Palm Beach Post is no different. But are we doing it because our readers really crave that much Black Friday news? Or are we out of touch, just clinging … Continue reading
Filed under Facebook, Online journalism
