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Interview: USA Today social media editor Michelle Kessler on the evolving newsroom, measuring success

cgseo — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 01:25:00 +0000

Herb Schmertz & The Huffington Post

cgseo — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 00:34:21 +0000

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

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

cgseo — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 02:58:18 +0000

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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2010 the year social media came of age

cgseo — Sun, 02 Jan 2011 01:07:09 +0000

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

cgseo — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 19:36:54 +0000

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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Facebook Open Graph: Washington Post and Future of Social News

cgseo — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 15:03:36 +0000

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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A Prediction: Twitter to Predict the Future

cgseo — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 11:22:36 +0000

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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Today’s Journalism: Lacking Presence and Immediacy

cgseo — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 15:41:16 +0000

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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Content matters; where it lives does not.

cgseo — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 05:01:34 +0000

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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Social Media Can Work For Small Business Too

cgseo — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 17:54:40 +0000

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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Yahoo Acquires Facebook Fantasy Sports Game-Makers Citizen Sports

cgseo — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 21:18:10 +0000

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

cgseo — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:55:00 +0000

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

cgseo — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:41:00 +0000

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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When social media can be unsafe

cgseo — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 20:37:00 +0000

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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