Pinterest for Journalists: For Notes, Community and Staff
Six ideas from Carl Lavin, lead homepage editor at CNN.com, on how you can use Pinterest to engage readers. Are you using Pinterest professionally? What type of content do you think works best?
Steve Buttry offers his input towards crowd-sourced guidelines on news aggregation.
How Yahoo Killed Flickr and Lost the Internet
An interesting long read that looks at the relationship between the digital media giant and its online media-sharing service in the context of the social web.
Dustin Curtis, a widely read user interface designer, focuses on an important piece from Twitter’s blog post about its new tailored suggestion system: its admission that it’s tracking users’ activity around the web.
“Basically, every time you visit a site that has a follow button, a ‘tweet this’ button, or a hovercard, Twitter is recording your behavior. It is transparently watching your movements and storing them somewhere for later use.”
Read more on dcurt.is.
A fundamental tenet of journalism has been that it should be based on verified facts. The processes for determining facts are far from perfect, subject to deadlines, availability of sources and judgments on the veracity of people and data…
Real-time, networked technologies can unbundle the verification process. Contradictory reports and rumours can be contested or confirmed in public in exchanges that involve not just editors and journalists, but also members of public.
Social journalism research helps explain how information is verified on Twitter | Poynter.
Alfred Hermida’s research on how journalists use Twitter to connect with the public and verify sources is worth reading. This interview looks into the relationship between truth, timeliness, and modern reporting.
Facebook Privacy Policy Change Paves Way For Off-Facebook Advertising - Forbes
In case you missed it, Facebook has revamped their “data use policy” to make it clearer that it can use information about you to display ads to you outside of Facebook.
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The Brand That Feeds: Balancing Personal and Professional on Social Media
We got good at social because we weren’t afraid to mix business and pleasure. We attracted an audience because we weren’t shy about tweeting out our favorite Whitney Houston song when we learned of her death.
So what happens when the personal gets boxed out on the very networks we pressed our bosses to start using?
How Storify is changing event-driven journalism.
(Full disclosure: Storify co-founder Burt Herman is an ONA board member.)
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