@Poynter published a nifty digital survival guide for today's journalist. Let's see how many you know. I just learned that I can use Ajax for more than just my kitchen sink.
YouTube users can now add use Google Moderator, a service that uses crowdsourcing to rank user-submitted questions, suggestions and ideas, to their channels. Will you use it?
Are you sick of the same old instant messaging service on your job? Do you have to wait for days to get reply tweets or retweets from your co-workers? Microsoft could answer your prayers with a micro-blogging service designed for enterprise. OfficeTalk is in test mode right now, but could be the hard-working cousin that Twitter never had. Read more...
Check out the results from a survey conducted by Hitwise at the beginning of March.According to Hitwise: "Facebook has established an extremely loyal following among news readers, potentially threatening the dominant position held by Google News. Hitwise´s latest data, from the week ending March 6th, shows that 78 per cent of Facebook users were returning visitors to print media websites from the social networking site." Read the rest of the data.
Do you get your News video primarily from Facebook or Twitter? Blogger and social media marketing scientist (cool job) Dan Zarrella did the math in a mini experiment, and found that Facebook has more of a viral impact on sharing articles with Video in the headline than Twitter. Why you ask? Well, it's all about the ease of embedding video. It's easier to do on Facebook, concludes Zarrella.
The vast majority of Americans get their news from multiple news platforms and 59% get news from both online and offline sources on a typical day, according to a Pew Internet poll. The internet is now the third most-popular news platform, and falls behind local and national television news and ahead of national print newspapers, local print newspapers and radio, according to Pew. Read more...
Where do you get your daily news? Take this poll and check all that apply.
