This blog periodically looks at the immeasurable contributions that an impartial media brings to a democratic society, i.e.

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Herb Schmertz & The Huffington Post

That Breaking News need not be a Scoop Race but is best handled as a emergent story. Andy carried a tweet from NPR that said that Giffords was dead at 15.12. A new one from NPR at 15.36 that there was now doubt and one from AP that she was alive at 15.34 – In other words Andy offered us the reality of the real mess that always attends such an event.

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How NPR's Andy Carvin helped the media follow the story from Tuscon

Sunday, April 25th is World Malaria Day and the United Nations is placing its hopes on you and the social graphs you’ve nurtured to finally end this deadly, yet preventable disease. You see...

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Can Social Media Help End Malaria? Let’s Find Out…

What would happen if you owned a newspaper but you asked your readers to do the distribution for you? The Washington Post has implemented the Social Graph from Facebook: Use your Facebook netwo...

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Facebook Open Graph: Washington Post and Future of Social News

The big news dominating blog and news headlines this week came from Facebook's f8 conference which announced the Open Graph and Social Plugins (among other exciting things). We've had several calls...

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Top 25 Posts About Facebook f8 Open Graph & Social Plugins

Trending topics reveal much more than the objects that captivate the hearts, minds, and keyboards of Twitter users around the world. Twitter’s trends is a cultural mirror that reflects the state o...

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A Prediction: Twitter to Predict the Future

Journalism as we know it is changing. Rapidly. I’m not nor have I ever been a reporter or worked for a media company, so take my commentary with that in mind. But if I can see and feel the ...

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Today's Journalism: Lacking Presence and Immediacy

Social media is upon us. It is a fact of life and consumers have made it part of their daily lives. In other news, brands are still investing small and not so small fortunes creating amazing content...

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Content matters; where it lives does not.

We’ve heard about the social media success stories of large companies all across the news. Best Buy’s Twelpforce. Zappo’s amazing customer service. The millions of revenue from Dell’s twitter acco...

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Social Media Can Work For Small Business Too

Yahoo today announced that they are acquiring Citizen Sports, a company that creates fantasy sports leagues for Facebook, iPhone, Android and other devices.  The acquisition is meant to enhance Yaho...

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Yahoo Acquires Facebook Fantasy Sports Game-Makers Citizen Sports

Today, Offerpal released the results of a survey that targeted social gamers’ monetization activities.  Specifically, the report found that 29.7% of social gamers do not have the ability or means to...

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Report: 30 Percent of Gamers Can’t Afford Virtual Currency

This question of content and engagement strategy gets at the heart of how a company succeeds in bringing an audience to their website, keeping them engaged and even converting them to an action. ...

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Content and Passion...Finding The Right Social Media Content And Engagement Strategy

There’s so much positive hype about social media that sometimes its easy to forget the importance of maintaining perspective about it. Recently an acquaintance of mine stopped using Foursquare when ...

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When social media can be unsafe