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Rehberg talks about social networking with Gazette
Denny Rehberg spoke to the Billings Gazette recently about the effect of social networking on politics and campaigning. Rehberg is no stranger to social networking. He has a page on Facebook, a pretty active video stream on YouTube and, yes, he’s even on Twitter, where he recently posted about his opinions on the newest health [...]
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Twitter lists: A gentler introduction to Twitter
One of the bad things about Twitter is that it’s full of static. All those mundane posts about cats and breakfast and Kanye West can turn away people before they find people on Twitter worth following. (@amandaricker, I’m talking about you.) Thankfully, Twitter has provided a new tool that should help the microblogging service become [...]
Making sense of social media
Twitter is the whipping boy of social media because it’s one of the most visible networks out there, so please bear with me once again while I talk about general trends using Twitter as an example. A few people in the newsroom have expressed concerns about using Twitter. It’s too much noise and nonsense, too [...]
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Dabblers go home; journalists need to be social media leaders
Gina Chen, who I admire for her clear-headed and sensible writing about how journalists can use social media technologies, reminds us today that, for many modern readers, if the news is important enough, it will find them. It’s on journalists and news organizations to make it possible for the news to find its audience, which [...]
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Washington Post columnist on why reporters should use Twitter
Rob Pegoraro from the Washington Post brings us this post on why Twitter can be a good thing for reporters. A couple of highlights, first, on the benefit readers get from a reporter’s Twitter feed: To me, it’s first about making the conversation with readers more efficient. If one reader asks you a question about [...]
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