in Journalism and Mass Communication
PaidContent has compiled a list of the 50 most successful digital companies in the United States. You can view the full list here. The list is based of off digital sales, and by admission of PaidContent, some intelligent guesswork when data wasn’t available. Their definition of a digital company was a company that makes money directly from sales of online content or online advertising.
Check out their list and let us know if you agree with it. Read More
If you’re looking for followers to interact with, or want to know the best times to get your tweets retweeted, then check out the two-year study done by HubSpot’s Dan Zarella. The report shows that tweeting in the late afternoon, Saturdays and Sundays is the best time to get your information out there. It also says that tweeting the same message 2-3 times is effective in making sure that people see it. If you’re trying to build up your personal brand, check out the article about it. Read more
From Miguel Heft and Matt Richtel from New York Times, March 28 – Facebook is hoping to do something better and faster than any other technology start-up-turned-Internet superpower.
Befriend Washington.
Facebook has layered its executive, legal, policy and communications ranks with high-powered politicos from both parties, beefing up its firepower for future battles in Washington and beyond. There’s Sheryl Sandberg, the former Clinton administration official who is chief operating officer, and Ted Ullyot, a former clerk forSupreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia who is general counsel, among others. The latest candidate is Robert Gibbs, President Obama’s former White House press secretary, whom Facebook is trying to lure to its communications team. Read More
From Michael Kelley at Media Bistro on March 28 – Periodically and with increasing speed, the Internet goes through a transformation, which is today being defined by digital video. Thanks to innovative communications providers, the continued expansion of broadband and availability of faster download speeds to anyone with an Internet connection, video is now the new frontier on every device. Many are rushing to get a piece of the “action” and now, just like a growing community, we need to build the proper infrastructure to measure and value digital video. Read More
A new online publishing house, called The Atavist, brings original reporting, long-form, non-fiction stories to mobile readers like the iPad, Nook and Kindle. It was started by a freelance writer for Wired, Even Ratliff, and Nicholas Thompson, an editor at the magazine.
Videos, links, and images are fused with text to create a complete story experience in the demand/digital age. There are only three stories currently available but their website lists a number of writers that they have lined up for upcoming publications. You can check out their site here or read the NYT article about them.
From the Project for Excellence in Journalism on March 24 - For only the second time since PEJ began measuring social media in January 2009, the same story was the No. 1 topic on blogs, Twitter and YouTube.
Social media users last week responded in huge numbers to the aftermath of the catastrophic earthquake in Japan, including the growing concern about damaged nuclear reactors. For the week of March 14-18, a full 64% of blog links, 32% of Twitter news links and the top 20 YouTube news videos were about that subject, according to the New Media Index from the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism. Read more
By Brad King, Ball State University
“There is no there there.” - Gertrude Stein
Social media doesn’t exist. At least not in the way it’s normally discussed.
I’ve made this statement to countless technologists in the past few years without much pushback. We discussed the evolution of modern technologies, the philosophy of digital tools and the rapid expansion of software applications now available for the “humans,” the name for which I’ve long dubbed those who prefer pushing buttons to learning underlying architectures. (In other words: normal people.)
From PR Newswire — Social media users in the U.S. find advertising is a fair price to pay for using social media sites and features. Fifteen percent are more inclined to buy brands that advertise in social media, representing slightly more than 30 million people 13-80 years old. Read more.
From Mashable.com.
Though social media has proved itself an effective tool in helping journalists gather news and connect with their communities, a pervading question among the skeptics still remains: Where’s the money? Read More.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation, a digital civil liberties group based in San Francisco, has received information through a federal Freedom of Information Act request documenting how U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services uses social networking sites to investigate petitions for citizenship. Read more.
