Post tagged "news"
65% of Journalists Now Use Social Media to Research Stories
An October 2009 national survey conducted by Cision and Don Bates of The George Washington University found that a majority of reporters and editors now depend on social media sources when researching their stories. Among the journalists surveyed, 89% said they turn to blogs for story research, 65% to social media sites such as Facebook and LinkedIn, and 52% to microblogging services such as Twitter. The survey also found that 61% use Wikipedia, the popular online encyclopedia. …more…
Facebook Drives 350x More Traffic to News/Media Sites than Google Reader
According to a ReadWriteWeb analysis of Hitwise numbers, Facebook drives 350 times as much traffic to other websites in the “news and media” category (3.5%) as Google Reader does (.01%).
However, Facebook, Google News (1.4%). and Google Reader togetheraccount for less than 5% of news sites’ total traffic. The #1, 2 and 3 drivers of traffic to news sites? Google, Yahoo and MSN.
How NPR uses Twitter and Facebook to Report Breaking News
MediaBistro’s E.B. Boyd has interviewed NPR’s social media strategist Andy Carvin and produced a great case study for how Twitter and Facebook can be used by news organizations to
- report on breaking stories
- use Twitter Lists to provide access to credible sources
- find and vet sources to provide on-the ground insight and analyis
- ask the community for assistance in reporting a story
- use Facebook to collect personal stories to illustrate the news
Facebook and FriendFeed
I see two problems with this:
Facebook will have a problem managing the public/private divide. Making some things public and some things private makes the logic exponentially more complex. …more…
iWidgets Raises $4.1 Million: Cool App; What's the Bus Model?
TechCrunch and others report this week that a San Francisco-based start up, iWidgets, has raised $4.1 million in Series A funding from Opus Capital and University Venture Fund. Eyebrows are raised: in this climate, what does it take t get funded? Not surprisingly, there’s a social media component. The company lets anyone …more…
The Social Inbox: Bebo Adds Feeds to Homepage
A message went up on Bebo’s blog today, announcing that they, too, will be attempting to convince users to port the rest of their web activity to the Bebo platform. Bebo says:
“We wanted to make your life online easier by bringing all of the things you care about to one place.
The top part of the homepage allows you to …more…
Sunday In the Sandbox with Facebook Connect
Having been told by Tonia that I would have to provide useful content for this site, rather than just pronouncing from on high, I spent the Sabbath playing around with Facebook Connect (website | Tonia’s post,) to see whether I could extract something useful from it. …more…
Media6Degrees Claims to Harness the Social Graph for Advertisers
A new start-up claims to be in a position to turn lead into gold using “the emerging field of” social media. “$1 Spent With Media6Degrees Client Generates $7 in Transactional Revenue,” blares the headline of the press release announcing the “Commercial Launch Based on the Strength of Beta Tests” for this company, which provides very little information beyond the names of a star-studded management team, team of investors …more…
