Category Archives: Social media
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Twitter tips: bit.ly’s Chrome extension, real-time collaboration with Beluga, finding followers
Quick Twitter posting Could this be better than TweetDeck for posting? I know I’m late to this party, but I recently started using Chrome and discovered the browser’s bit.ly extension. It makes tweeting a bit.ly-shortened link even faster and easier … Continue reading
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Are your customers a crowd or a community?
Last month, I attended the South by Southwest Interactive conference in Austin, a gathering place to share information and ideas about web-development trends. I’m recapping information and thoughts from SXSW in a series of blog posts. Social media is such … Continue reading
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The science of timing: When to post on Twitter and Facebook
Dan Zarrella, social media scientist HubSpot’s Dan Zarrella, the “social media scientist,” recently offered a webinar to summarize his research on the best times to post content to Facebook and Twitter. Describing a lot of the social-media information out there … Continue reading
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The future of social photography
This month, I attended the South by Southwest Interactive conference in Austin, a gathering place to share information and ideas about web-development trends. I’ll recap information from SXSW in a series of blog posts and invite comments and brainstorming for … Continue reading
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A spike in likes: Methods to increase Facebook and Twitter followers
As The Palm Beach Post’s social media editor, I’m always looking for ways to boost our Facebook fan and Twitter follower counts – increase “conversions,” in the lingo. For Facebook, for instance, our most powerful tool is the homepage Facebook … Continue reading
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