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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

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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

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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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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

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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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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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