Tag 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
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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
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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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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
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
Filed under Cool tools, Social media
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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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
Filed under Facebook, Social media, Twitter
Thanks for reading! Web Up the Newsroom’s top blog posts of 2010
I started this blog just about a year ago, so the Top 10 posts of 2010 are more or less the Top 10 posts, period. Here’s a recap of what you liked most on Web Up the Newsroom in 2010 … Continue reading
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