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Infographic: Is Your Facebook Page Performance Above The Average?

Wed, 08 May 2013 09:52:26 -0400

Infographic: Is Your Facebook Page Performance Above The Average?

Exploring Curation as a core competency in digital and media literacy education | Mihailidis | Journal of Interactive Media in Education

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 09:38:56 -0400

Exploring Curation as a core competency in digital and media literacy education | Mihailidis | Journal of Interactive Media in Education

How-to guide for RebelMouse pages

Tue, 26 Feb 2013 16:11:38 -0500

How-to guide for RebelMouse pages

Facebook Videos vs YouTube Links: Which Gets Higher Engagement? | Social Media Statistics & Metrics - Socialbakers

Wed, 20 Feb 2013 13:59:32 -0500

Facebook Videos vs YouTube Links: Which Gets Higher Engagement? | Social Media Statistics & Metrics - Socialbakers:

Answer: it doesn’t matter too much.

Although it does say Facebook videos got 40% higher engagement - not clear where that number came from. Their graph on Likes, Comments, Shares doesn’t indicate that high a disparity and seems to put the disparity in favor of the YouTube videos. So… ?

New Facebook Profile layout

Wed, 09 Jan 2013 11:16:11 -0500

New Facebook Profile layout:

Back to single column and tabs. Hmm. Don’t know if this is coming for pages or just profiles.

Heart. Sizes for all the pictures you need on social media...

Wed, 09 Jan 2013 10:20:32 -0500

Heart. Sizes for all the pictures you need on social media sites.

Data Center - Sina Weibo Analytics

Thu, 27 Dec 2012 13:35:07 -0500

Data Center - Sina Weibo Analytics

How to recreate the new e-bay site scrolling effect | PEPSized

Mon, 24 Dec 2012 23:15:21 -0500

How to recreate the new e-bay site scrolling effect | PEPSized:

TIL: Those neat scrolling effects are called “parallax” and are just CSS

Voices of Bowdoin-Geneva

Mon, 17 Dec 2012 11:03:52 -0500

Voices of Bowdoin-Geneva

6 social media mistakes to avoid this Election Day | Poynter.

Mon, 05 Nov 2012 13:45:18 -0500

6 social media mistakes to avoid this Election Day | Poynter.:

Very useful article, Election Day peg or not. Links to various resources for verifying/debunking pictures and information from social media

Second Screen - Guardian Olympics project

Fri, 02 Nov 2012 15:27:52 -0400

Second Screen - Guardian Olympics project:

Someone missed this during the Olympics, but stumbled across it today while doing some elections research (don’t ask). I really like the different approach to thinking about how people find and consume information.

Truth and lies on Twitter during Sandy

Fri, 02 Nov 2012 14:43:40 -0400

Truth and lies on Twitter during Sandy:

Good collection of links to conversations and articles about Twitter’s role during Sandy, and the spread of false information

What makes something go viral? The Internet according to Gawker’s Neetzan Zimmerman » Nieman Journalism Lab

Thu, 02 Aug 2012 11:25:00 -0400

What makes something go viral? The Internet according to Gawker’s Neetzan Zimmerman » Nieman Journalism Lab:

Just spent about 30 minutes trying to find this link. Must remember to put things here instead of losing them forever. #notetoself

Also interesting in terms of thinking about what creates virality and how different organizations are pursuing viral content, Slate’s takedown (?) of Buzzfeed.

We Got The Beat: The 'Heart' Of Your City : NPR

Thu, 02 Aug 2012 11:16:06 -0400

We Got The Beat: The 'Heart' Of Your City : NPR:

You know how a lot of times I’m jealous of NPR? This is one of those times.

Life Below 600px | Paddy Donnelly

Wed, 27 Jun 2012 19:43:04 -0400

Life Below 600px | Paddy Donnelly:

Love this. Really pretty take on why the “rules” of web design shouldn’t be taken as gospel.

How The Seattle Times Is Using Facebook Groups as a Crowdsourcing Tool - 10,000 Words

Thu, 21 Jun 2012 14:29:55 -0400

How The Seattle Times Is Using Facebook Groups as a Crowdsourcing Tool - 10,000 Words:

This article talks about how the Seattle Times set up Facebook groups for high school alumni years (class of 2005, etc.) in order to gather people in one place and eventually mine them for info. Ostensibly these groups also became places where those people simply connected with each other. Given the explosion of VOA’s Facebook event page for the Egypt elections as a place for Egyptians to connect and share (and vent), I wonder if news orgs should think harder about how to create these types spaces for people, not to milk them for info but just as a service to bring them together (although hopefully they won’t mind if we tap them for participation every once in a while).

Let’s blow up the news story and build new forms of journalism - Poynter

Thu, 21 Jun 2012 11:03:00 -0400

Let’s blow up the news story and build new forms of journalism - Poynter:

Further to the thoughts from last week (maybe slightly longer ago than that? anyone else have the feeling lately that time has lost all meaning?) about why no one’s thinking harder about new ways to present information that aren’t articles.

Check out Kuwait’s Twitter domination (via How the Arab...

Tue, 12 Jun 2012 18:52:02 -0400

Check out Kuwait’s Twitter domination (via How the Arab World Uses Facebook and Twitter [INFOGRAPHICS])

The Pulse of News in Social Media: Forecasting Popularity

Tue, 12 Jun 2012 18:49:02 -0400

The Pulse of News in Social Media: Forecasting Popularity

Future of the Article

Thu, 31 May 2012 17:14:00 -0400

In a conversation yesterday about gaming, I was reminded that one of the fundamental challenges the news industry is facing (and one that it doesn’t seem to be addressing) is that the way we present news is pretty poor. The traditional article is a limited way to provide information or tell a story, and the traditional television package is even worse.

We’re getting slightly better at using the digital tools available to present information in the medium that fits it best, but we’re nowhere near fixing the experience of how a user navigates through information or stories (not between stories, within a single story). We should be providing pathways for people to consume information in all its rich context - whether they need historical background, to be grounded in geography, to feel the personal relevance of the news, it should all be there, easy to explore but not intrusive into the experience of any one piece of it.

Plenty of people are thinking about when to use slideshows or infographics, but why aren’t more people thinking about how all the elements of a story live together in a more harmonious and more usable way - one that helps a reader find the path they need to the components they want?

Here are some links I’ve come across recently on this topic, which I want to keep in mind as I think about it more and advance my own ideas (my 2009 thoughts seem a bit quaint now)…

Why We Need to Blow Up the Article in Order to Save it - Matthew Ingram
The future of news = small pieces, loosely joined

NYT Jim Roberts/CNN Peter Bale on why we’re in a “golden age of storytelling” - Journalism.co.uk

Robin Sloan on his “Fish” tap essay - The Verge

News Articles as Assets and Paths - Jeff Jarvis