Category Archives: Social media
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
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
Update on Google Plus: Most of its power seems to lie in its potential; still waiting for brand pages
While we continue to await the ability to create brand pages on Google Plus, teases across our website inviting local Palm Beach Post readers to add me to their circles, as the paper’s social media editor, remain active. Still, only … Continue reading
Filed under Google Plus, 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
A first look at Google Plus
The latest social network on the block, Google Plus, is still in “field trial” with limited users, including a few of us on The Palm Beach Post’s web team and elsewhere in the newsroom who are trying it out. However, … Continue reading
Filed under Social media
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
Peeking behind the curtain of news operations with social media
Some media organizations use social media to give their audience a peek behind the scenes of the news-gathering process. For example, using Instagram, a popular photo-sharing app that adds arty filters to iPhone-snapped images, ABC World News shared a glimpse … Continue reading
Filed under 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
