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Storify and Journalism: An Exploration (via Anna’s Cubby Hole: Ramblings of a Cub Reporter)

Interesting, have heard about this but not explored it yet. Thanks for the info!

Storify and Journalism: An Exploration It's a little embarrassing for a media/journalism junkie to admit, but I just discovered Storify this morning. I'm hoping to use it for future blog posts, but my first story will be an investigation of Storify's impact on media and journalistic potential. From what I can tell so far, Storify is an interactive tool for people to easily create stories using tweets, Facebook statuses and links. From their FAQ: Storify is a way to tell stories using … Read More

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Selling Snake Oil in the Age of Social Media (via Matt Moore Writes…)

Good points, useful to hear. It does seem like folks are almost rushing to create a new bubble du jour, an activity bubble of internet content/hype than seems inevitably heading towards its own crash of some kind. Sad, given how much important work there actually is to be done in these days of rapid, momentous changes.

In large organizations, we hire outside consultants and contractors to carry out large projects and take advantage of their expertise. In the age of Facebook and YouTube, experience in social media is a common perquisite to bid on communications contracts. And while thick, glossy bids arrive with examples of creating YouTube videos and launching Facebook pages, more and more I’m seeing that some so-called “experts” have pushed buttons or written … Read More

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Brickfish Contest _ Social Media site report

So, now that the contest is over, it’s interesting to see the viral map of all the activity.

Lots of new sites explored!

I thought I’d type up the list here of sites we posted to, activity per site, and so on.

Most of this list is pretty clear, it will say BF (meaning Brickfish) and then a small number (1-3 usually), that’s the number of times the link was posted from Brickfish to that site or platform. Then a larger number, and that larger number is somewhat mysterious. It has to do with activity levels from that site – could be views as well as votes. Because I believe that if I add up all those larger numbers, it doesn’t equal views exactly, or votes, or the sum of the two. I believe it’s a proportional indication of both view and votes, from that site vs. the total activity.

The complicated part is when the contest was posted to a site, then posted from there to another site. If you look at the map itself you’ll see what I mean.

So, may add/clarify this more as time allows, but wanted to share this in case of interest.

BF – 1 – Instapaper – 4
BF – 1 – Indexor – 21
BF – 1 – Other – 374
(would *reallly* like to know what this is!)
BF – 4 – Facebook – 102 – posted 1 to different Facebook page – 2

BF – 1 – Hi5 – 13 (activity measure)
posted from that Hi5 site as follows:
Hi5 – 1 – MySpace – 29
Hi5 – 1 – LiveJournal – 12
Hi5 – 1 – Xanga – 1

BF – 4 – MySpace – 29 (activity measure)
posted from MySpace as follows:
MySpace – 1 – LiveJournal – 1

BF – 1 – Bebo – 19
BF – 1 – Blogspot – 84
BF – 1 – Twitturls – 4
BF – 1 – Hootsuite – 77
BF – 1 – TypePad – 27
BF – 1 – Email – 1386
BF – 1 – tinyurl – 14
BF – 1 – WordPress – 72
BF – 1 – Tumblr – 101
BF – 1 – Longurl – 8
BF – 1 – LinkedIn – 8
BF – 1 – EfolioMN – 11
BF – 1 – LiveJournal – 15
BF – 1 – Xanga – 2
BF – 1 – Stumbleupon – 4
BF – 1 – mn – 8
BF – 1 – Twitter – 46

If you want to see the other, more viral sites, you can go to the right side bar that says ‘Other Entries’ than below those 4 pics or so, there is a link that says ‘see more.’ That brings you to the whole list. At the very top of that front page of the whole list, there are headers that you can sort by. One of them is ‘Most Viral’. This entry of ours is #21 I believe!

For history on what this was all about, please see the posts tagged as Brickfish. Long story short, my daughter entered in to this contest, and asked for my help. I decided to use the contest as a springboard to implementing more social media for my company, and an impetus to learn more about the functions I had been using. Clarity Solutions did not establish a presence on all these – not MySpace of course. And some of these I didn’t have anything to do with. But the involvement I did have completely met my goals for it!

PS The ‘winners’ haven’t been announced yet. The prizes aren’t that substantial anyway, I was really just interested to see what actions would yield what results, how our efforts compared to others, etc.. And I really appreciate all those of you who helped!!

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Facebook Newsfeed composition – info and analysis

An interesting article on how the machinations of newsfeed content work, and what it means both for companies & organizations on Facebook, and regular people.

It’s all always changing so much!!

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Are You Connected? You Can Be With New Social Media Aggregator (via Sales and Sales Management Blog)

Sounds like an interesting option.

Do you have contacts on LinkedIn?  Followers on Twitter?  Friends on Facebook?  Contacts in Gmail?  Do you have appointments with some of these contacts?  Do you try to keep up with their blog posts, tweets, birthdays, job changes, and other activities? If you do, you probably have a bit of a problem keeping up with literally thousands of business and social contacts.  It takes time to navigate through all of the platforms.  It probably has becom … Read More

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G1 Blueprint Top 14 Social Networks (via Social Local Mobile Marketing)

Aha! One vote on my question-du-jour (albeit unintentional) of which out of the hundreds out there are optimal site for social presence. Delightful!

Content syndication using the PixelPipe service model can be a great way to expand the reach of your content once you figure out which of the hundreds of social networking sites you want to publish your audio, video, text, photos and file too. Here are the top social networks I use on a frequent basis: Facebook Twitter Delicious DIGG Flickr LinkedIN Slide Share Stumble Upon Technorati YouTube Hub Pages Squidoo Lens Ezine Articles Blogger For thos … Read More

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Some Conclusions to ‘Who Controls Social Media?’ (via Publishing/Writing: Insights, News, Intrigue)

A peek in to the big leagues..

Some Conclusions to 'Who Controls Social Media?' One week ago I posted "Who Controls Social Media?" on my Writers Welcome Blog. Today, on this blog, I am giving some answers to this question. Answers provided by Facebook responses to Matt Kinsman's original article in FOLIO magazine For Publishers, Who Are the Gatekeepers of Social Media? Some interesting answers with conclusions in line with my own that I provided on my Writers Welcome Blog post. Follow-up article by Matt Kinsman, executive ed … Read More

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