How Bloggers Use (or Don’t Use) Twitter
Bloggers matter to our work because they’re often more sympathetic to our issues than the mainstream media. Bloggers also need a constant stream of content, which we can provide — including news of...
View ArticleTraditional vs. Digital Media: Who Makes the News?
According to a new study by the Pew Research Center, the great majority of actual reporting still comes from newspapers, but even those outlets are driven largely by reporting on government statements,...
View ArticlePew Report: For Teens, Blogging on Decline as Social Media Use Grows
The Pew Internet & American Life Project has released their latest report examining social media use among teens and young adults. One important finding is that teen blogging is on the decline...
View ArticleDay Laborers Tell Their Stories Online
Voces Móviles / Mobile Voices is a Los Angeles-based citizen media project, which describes itself as “a platform for immigrant workers in Los Angeles to create stories about their lives and...
View ArticleQuick and Dirty Blogging Tips
Blogger and media consultant Chris Brogan has put together a list of “quick and dirty” blogging tips. It’s a helpful quick reference guide for those of us struggling to create “rules of thumb” for our...
View ArticleTwitter’s Rules of Order
As with any new online tool and social network there is a learning curve to using and joining the conversation on Twitter. Twitter has an odd lingo and culture all its own. Here are a few of the quirky...
View ArticleDo You Use Your Blog Strategically?
Folks over at BlueStateDigital have put together a very helpful list of ways to to use your put your blog to good strategic use. They ask “How do you ensure your blog is worth the time it takes your...
View ArticleNonprofit Spam Manifesto
There are people out there that hate – and we mean hate – spam. As the blogging team writing as “No NonProfit Spam,” says “Your mission is noble, and your intentions are honorable. But if you...
View ArticleLive-Tweeting an Event?
M+R has a great checklist for preparing to live tweet an event. As they remind us “Live-tweeting can be a great way to build your audience on Twitter – if you do it right…Setting yourself up for...
View ArticleEmerging 2013 Social Media Trends
This week e.politics posted a helpful list of online trends to watch in 2013. We found it really helpful for prompting discussions around both short-term and long-term online strategies. Here you go:...
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