Tag: facebook

• Don’t Keep Readers Out, Make Them Want to Come in

  According to a Guardian executive, thanks in part to the growth of the Facebook app, social sharing is now close to generating as much traffic to the paper’s website as search does — a fairly incredible statistic, considering that social produced just 2 percent of the traffic to the site as recently as six months ago. The Washington Post has seen […]

  Barbara Iverson

  March 27, 2012

  Journalism, Publishing

  facebook, Facebook Platform, GlobalPost, Guardian, New York Time, Paywall, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post

• Sy Bounds got some Video of Social Media Workshop

  I presented a workshop on Social Media 2.0 for people who work at nonprofits recently, and Sy Bounds was kind enough to video some of the session and share them with the world. Here is a link to his tumblr and some of the video are viewable below. Contact me if you would like a […]

  Barbara Iverson

  March 22, 2012

  Future of News

  Business, facebook, Internet Marketing, Marketing and Advertising, Public relations, Social media, Twitter, Workshop

• My Toolkits about Social Media & Sharing

  These are links to annotated toolkits. Check them out to increase your productivity. Sharing and Working with Others by @drbarb //   Signal/Noise Adjustment by @drbarb // < ![CDATA[ // < ![CDATA[ // New Ecology of News Tools by @drbarb // < ![CDATA[ // < ![CDATA[ //   Social Media Starters by @drbarb // < […]

  Barbara Iverson

  August 16, 2011

  New media, Smartphones, Social network

  Business, facebook, Internet Marketing, Marketing and Advertising, Open source, Social media, Social network, Twitter

• Socialditto Provides Embed Code for Facebook Posts

  Kitty KurthTell your friends in the 20th Ward – Che Rhymefest Smith for Alderman1 day ago 1 like Comment

  Barbara Iverson

  February 20, 2011

  Blogging, Technology

  20th ward, Che Rhymefest Smith, embed, facebook, socialditto

• Facebook and Twitter Don’t Measure Up in Asia

  Image via Wikipedia Weibo. Launched just over a year ago (August 2009), …clocked up 50 million users by October this year and was on track to hit 100 million by 2Q 2011.  Weibo — twice as popular as Twitter even in Hong Kong, suggesting that it enjoyed even greater dominance in mainland China… Cyworld social […]

  Barbara Iverson

  November 19, 2010

  Technology

  Asia, facebook, Hong Kong, Korea, Nate, Online Communities, Social network, Twitter

• Free Speech TV Live Election Coverage- Starts 11/2/10

  Free Speech TV (FSTV) announced today that it will broadcast live coverage of the upcoming midterm elections from broadcasting centers in New York, Washington, DC and from their headquarters in Denver. The coverage is scheduled to air on November 2nd, 2010 from 8:00 pm – 2:00 am EST on DISH Network channel 9415, DIRECTV channel […]

  Barbara Iverson

  November 1, 2010

  Future of News

  Denver, DIRECTV, DISH Network, facebook, Free Speech TV, New York, Twitter, Washington DC

• TechMeme shows screen grabs of Diaspora

  I invested in Diaspora via Kickstarter. I can hardly wait to try it. Students, pay attention to the way these kids raised money, and are bringing their ideas and convictions about privacy and social networking to life. At first glance, this preview version of Diaspora looks sparse, but clean. Oddly enough, with its big pictures […]

  Barbara Iverson

  September 17, 2010

  Future of News

  Album, apple, Diaspora, facebook, Near real-time, opensource, Social network, Source code

• Integrating Social Media into Online Education – biverson@gmail.com

  From a short article by John Orlando, PhD, from “Faculty Focus” newsletter (I added the boldface.) But few colleges have a social media strategy. The assumption is still that all content must be housed within the LMS. Systems such as Blackboard are adding social media modules like blogs and wikis, but moving them into the […]

  Barbara Iverson

  September 8, 2010

  Education & Pedogogy

  Business, Drupal, Education, facebook, Marketing and Advertising, Norwich University, Open source, Social media

• Sustainable Business Model? Look to WoW

  WoW grew quickly at first, from one million subscribers in February 2005, to five million subscribers by December 2005, then eight million by January 2007, and 12 million by January 2009. And that was the peak: since then WoW seems to be holding steady at roughly 11-12 million subscribers around the world — a small […]

  Barbara Iverson

  July 5, 2010

  Business models, Economics

  facebook, Game, Game Databases, Massive Multiplayer Online, Roleplaying, Social network, Video Games, World of Warcraft

• Twitter: News Publishers Want Money From Tweets – Advertising Age – MediaWorks

  The New York Times Online has started selling packages of ads that appear specifically for visitors who arrive through social media such as Twitter and Facebook. Advertisers can buy certain shares of such readers, typically around 25%, so a page receiving a million visitors via social media would show a participating marketer&apos;s ad to 250,000 […]

  Barbara Iverson

  January 12, 2010

  Business models

  facebook, marketing, money, Twitter