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Why Facebook Messenger Looks More Instagram-esque
Recent Facebook Messenger app update means users can now chat with friends and family across platforms, plus other new interactive features.
Audience & Social
How local news organisations engage communities with social media
Social media is often viewed as the enemy of local news and for good reason: sites such as Facebook benefit enormously from being able to share journalism for free on their platform, sucking up advertising money that would previously have gone to news organisations themselves. Yet while the internet has
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A journalist's guide to the best encryption tools
Navigating the web safely in an age of data mining and state monitoring is becoming harder and harder, but there are tools out there that make it easier.
Audience & Social
The essential guide to sharing your story on social media
Social media is all about visibility, but the key for digital journalists is realising that each app promises a different kind of visibility because they reach different communities and content is presented to them in different ways. This guide will break down how content should be shared on Facebook, Twitter
Audience & Social
How to improve your social videos to tell compelling stories
As Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg told investors of his ‘video first’ strategy, content creators are trying to find ways to optimise their video output and attract larger followings. Social video has been around for many years but is now considered the dominant vessel for consumption on social media. Last year,
Audience & Social
Social Media for Journalists: Making a case for Facebook
There is one clear fact about journalism and social media, i.e. Twitter is the ‘Holy Grail’ for journalists.The 140 characters in a tweet are used by a majority of journalists for breaking news and microblogging. Almost every journalist has a twitter account. Facebook on the other hand is
How-To
The best video live-streaming apps
By 2019, 80% of all internet traffic will be for video – the online world is far from being only about text and images. One of the most interesting new strands of this video revolution is live-streaming: it offers a unique level of intimacy and immediacy to users. But what
Audience & Social
What to keep in mind with Facebook video
Facebook can be a very valuable tool for traffic for many websites, and mastering an online presence on the social platform is often the difference between life and death of a publication. Recently, Facebook's algorithm has been modified to promote visual content, such as pictures and videos, over
Audience & Social
Sociotope brings your online identity to life
While browsing data visualisations on Pinterest the other day, I came across an interesting-looking tool: Sociotope, a social media experiment which takes the data people leave behind in social networks and turns it into an interactive data visualisation. The free-to-use web app works with Twitter, Facebook and
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A social media style guide for local newspapers
Declining print circulations, traditionalism, internal politics, a small budget. These are problems that don't just affect local newspapers, but it hits them worse. So why have I written a social media style guide principally aimed at locals? Because, generally, they have fewer resources to invest in their social
Audience & Social
6 tools for measuring social media success
Lies, damned lies and statistics - everyone knows this famously pithy quote often attributed to 19th century British prime minister Benjamin Disraeli. In the social media world though, it’s statistics that are king. There are lots of free tools you can use to measure social networking success. Here is a
Audience & Social
Facebook alternatives: The Smart Social Networker's Guide
Throughout most of its ten-year history, people have been threatening to leave Facebook. There are plenty of good reasons for doing it, from Facebook’s constantly mutating privacy policies to its decision to turn users into test subjects without their knowledge or consent. A few months ago, Facebook came