Forbes: Facebook revealed it has more than 955 million monthly active users, as of end of June 2012. Read more.
10 Schools That Tweet and Like More Than You
September 12, 2012 By Leave a Comment
By Kenneth Rosen on Mashable, September 10 –
Goodbye mascots and cheerleaders, hello Facebook Likes and Twitter Retweets.
Colleges are extending their campuses and communities past the physical realm, far past the quad, into social media where they’re engaging prospective and enrolled students feverishly.
Unigo, an online resource for college information, selected the top 10 social media campuses by drawing from the top 100 national and liberal arts colleges.
Based on metrics such as total number of Facebook fans or Twitter followers, average number of posts/tweets a month and the engagement of those posts by users, Unigo was able to discover what works when it comes to collegiate social media and what falls flat.
How Tech’s Giants Want to Re-invent Journalism
May 1, 2012 By Leave a Comment
By Robert Andrews on paidContent, Apr. 26 –
Some of Silicon Valley’s biggest technology companies reject suggestions they are now news organisations.
But they nevertheless think they have the prescription for what news media must do next…
First, the disclosures: “We’re not a news company,” Google’s head of news products and Google+ programming Richard Gingras told media executives at the Paley Center’s international council of media executives in Madrid on Thursday. “We’re a platform,” Facebook’s journalism manager Vadim Lavrusik duly followed.
Facebook Launches Its ‘Web Newspaper’
March 9, 2012 By Leave a Comment
By Mark Hachman on PCMag, March 8 –
“Facebook threw its hat into the ring of curated newsfeeds on Thursday, offering a new “Interest Lists” feature that will allow Facebook users to subscribe to interesting, topical content.
For example, users who want to keep up with the 2012 presidential candidates can subscribe to a list of updates from the candidates themselves, and the political news outlets that follow them, such as MSNBC, CNN, and Fox.”
Poynter: Facebook and news orgs push boundaries of online privacy
September 29, 2011 By Leave a Comment
By Jeff Sonderman on Poynter, Sept. 29 , 2011 – Facebook again may have gone too far in its quest to make privacy obsolete, and this time some news organizations could get burned by going along with it.
Facebook spent years making it easier for us to share by building its network and placing “Like” buttons across the Web. Its latest idea goes much further, turning sharing into a thoughtless process in which everything we read, watch or listen to is shared with our friends automatically.
Encouraging sharing is great. Making sharing easier is even better. But this is much more than that. What Facebook has done is change the definition of “sharing.” It’s the difference between telling a friend about something that happened to you today and opening your entire diary.
News organizations and other content companies are eagerly accompanying Facebook down this path.
New Facebook-based apps like Washington Post Social Reader, and similar ones from The Guardian, The Daily and The Wall Street Journal, encourage Facebook users to read their stories and pump all that reading activity out to their friends.
And this isn’t isolated to what you read via Facebook itself. Yahoo News is asking readers to sign up to have their reading activity streamed to their Facebook profile. Services like Spotify and Netflix have their own apps to automatically share all media consumption.
This so-called “frictionless sharing” has big problems.
WSJ Places Content on Facebook, Hopes to Meet Readers There
September 20, 2011 By Leave a Comment
By Jeff Bercovici on Forbes, Sept. 19 – Is Facebook a friend of news companies, or is it a rival? No matter how much success publishers have piggybacking off its traffic, they can’t escape the cruel math: The more of their time consumers spend on Facebook and other social networking hubs, the less they have left over for news sites.
Now The Wall Street Journal has what it thinks is an answer to this problem. Called WSJ Social, it filters Journal content through the so-called social graph to yield a news product that lives entirely within the walls of Facebook. It launches Tuesday. Here’s what it looks like:
Photo Credit: Forbes
“The fundamental idea of it is super simple,” says Alisa Bowen, general manager of the WSJ Digital Network. “It’s about making [WSJ content] available where people are.”
Facebook More Beneficial for Journalists Than Twitter
April 11, 2011 By Leave a Comment
An article was just published on Inside Facebook comparing the benefits of Twitter and Facebook for journalists. Last week Facebook set up a page that helps journalists learn how to use the Facebook platform to promote their work. Since then, there’s been a discussion online about which platform is the most useful for journalists.
The Inside Facebook article says that promoting articles on Twitter is fast and easy, but that it doesn’t offer the same interaction that Facebook does. The article says that interacting with photos, videos and polls on Facebook eventually builds a stronger audience, even if it takes journalists a longer time to set up the post.
What do you think?
Which platform is best for journalists?
New Facebook Fanpage Just for Journalists
April 6, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Facebook has added a new fanpage specifically for journalists. The page launched on April 5 and was set up as to assist reporters in using Facebook as a resource for their reporting.
A poll on the page suggests that many journalists are looking to learn how other journalists are already using Facebook as a tool. The page already has several video interviews with journalists to get their take on how Facebook can help the journalism field. The videos include interviews with NPR, WSJ and CNET reporters, as well as Arianna Huffington and Nicholas Kristof.
You can read more about the fanpage here or view the page here.
Do you think Facebook can be used as an effective journalism tool? Leave your comment below.
Integrating social media into the classroom: resources, readings and lessons learned.
July 7, 2010 By Leave a Comment
By Gary Ritzenthaler, University of Florida, Ph.D. Student/Instructor, @gritz99
Introduction
At the 2009 AEJMC Convention in Boston, I presented a paper (written with David Stanton and Glenn Rickard) entitled, “Facebook groups as an e-learning component in higher education courses: one successful case study.” (See the paper here or presentation slides here.) The paper described a study we did in 2007 regarding students use of a Facebook group as a course component. That 2007 study, in turn, grew out of my experiments in building social media websites for a college audience, undertaken as a part of my master’s degree on social media, completed in 2006.
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Social Media and Copy Editing
By Yanick Rice Lamb, Howard University, Associate Professor/Sequence Coordinator, @yrlamb
Students use social media in their daily lives, but they don’t always think about using those skills as journalists. We are revamping how we teach Copy Editing to place a greater emphasis on Interactive Editing for newspapers, magazines and the Internet in print, on the Internet and on mobile devices. Social media is also a key part of the curriculum. However, we stress the importance of solid reporting, sound editing and high journalistic standards so that students don’t focus on speed, bells and whistles at the expense of quality.
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