How to survive a social media sabbatical
It wasn’t so long ago I was telling anyone who’d listen why I didn’t use Twitter. Then I started using Twitter. And never stopped. For the last eight months I’ve tweeted every day, with the occasional weekend off. I tweet eight, 10, 12 times a day: when I put up a new blog post, when [...]
An open letter to Twitter: stop the porn spam
But nobody should have to worry about what they’ll find when they open an email from Twitter notifying them of a new follower, or when they click on their Followers list.
How not to out yourself on Facebook
If you put down the the fireworks long enough over the holiday weekend to pick up a paper or read news online, you may have seen the story of the British spymaster’s wife who outed him on Facebook. It seems the wife of Sir John Sawers, next in line to run England’s super-secret spy agency [...]
The revolution on Twitter
Twitter is revolutionizing the way people gather and disseminate news, and today there’s no better example of that than what’s happening in Iran. After Friday’s hotted contested presidential elections saw the apparent re-election of incumbent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad by a landslide, supporters of challenger Mir Hossein Mousavi took to the streets in what looks to be [...]
Freelance Friday link love for June 12
Here’s what I’ve been reading this week: Help me investigate: Paul Bradshaw on Crowdsourcing Investigative Reporting – Video interview with a U.K. journalist and Online Journalism blogger on how he’s building a platform for crowdsourcing investigative journalism. 5 things Sesame Street can teach you about blogging – Keep it varied, repeat often and have a [...]
New ways to use LinkedIn to find story sources
Twitter may get all the press right now, but if you write about business or need experts in any number of areas – medicine, careers, government – you can’t beat LinkedIn, the business online network with more than 40 million members, for finding story sources. Here are some of my favorite ways to use LinkedIn [...]
Is it OK to friend your editor on Facebook?
Social networks like Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn have created all kinds of new work-related etiquette questions: Is it OK to post a link to that killer story you wrote for Ladies Home Journal on Twitter more than once – an hour? Does memorizing the LinkedIn profile of an editor you’d like to pitch constitute stalking? [...]
WordCount online media recap for week of April 17
Here’s what’s been happening in the worlds of freelance writing and online media this week: Web-only news awards watch – The Pulitzer Prizes, the Oscars of the journalism business, will be announced on Monday and for the first time Web-only publications are eligible. According to this Editor&Publisher article, at least five online news organizations submitted [...]
WordCount weekly online news recap for April 10
The week’s highlights from the freelance and digital news biz: It was a week for debating whether Google and the Internet have hurt or helped newspapers. Search engine guru and ex-newspaper reporter Danny Sullivan doesn’t understand newspapers’ anti-Google stance. But a poll of 43 mainstream media insiders conducted by The Atlantic and National Journal reveals [...]
News U, Knight Center team up on April 14 social networking Webinar for journalists
UPDATE: Online News Association members receive a $10 discount off the full Webinar price. To access the discount code, go to the Journalists.org Discounts page. Join ONA here. News U. and the Knight Digital Media Center are hosting a Webinar on social networks on Tuesday, April 14, 2 to 3 p.m. EDT. The Webinar, called [...]
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