Tag: journalism

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• Keep track of what you need to do thanks to Google – …I – LOVE – IT!
• Facebook for iPhone 3.1 Adds Push Notifications, Address Book Syncing – There’s finally a way to extract your contacts from Facebook!
• HootSuite Now Lets You Update Your WordPress Blog – The feature doesn’t limit you 140 character updates, and you can include URLs, photos and files in your updates.
• Habbo Hotel launches conversation tracking tool – Habbo Hotel, the virtual world for teens, is offering marketers the chance to understand what its users are saying about their brands with a tool that has been piloted by MTV.
• Search engine optimisation ‘to evolve’ with Google’s incorporation of Twitter – Google recently announced that it will be incorporating live updates from sites such as Facebook and Twitter into its results pages. Keywords would have to be included in Twitter posts, descriptions and accounts in order for the feed to be “properly optimised” by the search engine.
• Location-Based Ads Come to Augmented Reality in the US – Location-based social network Brightkite announced this morning that it has added what it calls the first mobile Augmented Reality advertising for U.S. markets to its AR layer in the Layar augmented reality browser
• Pepsi Chooses Social Media Over Super Bowl – Pepsi appears to understand that they are talking to people, and this is a huge point that scares many larger companies away from social media.
• Twitgether – Social Twitter Client for Gmail Gadget, Facebook App… – Twitgether is a full featured twitter client for social networks.
• How Much Information? 2009 Report on American Consumers (PDF) – In 2008, Americans consumed information for about 1.3 trillion hours, an average of almost 12 hours per day. Consumption totaled 3.6 zettabytes and 10,845 trillion words, corresponding to 100,500 words and 34 gigabytes for an average person on an average day.
• Engaging Employees in the Age of Streams – Steve Rubel offers three potential solutions.
• Social Media Guide for Journalists – It’s not enough today to have a good rolodex of sources (seriously, who even has a rolodex nowadays?) and a solid recorder, journalists need to be able to make use of every tool in their arsenal in order to stay afloat in today’s almost real-time media landscape.
• Need an effective presentation? 6 PowerPoint tips – Useful.
• Google Alerts for Twitter Lists – listimonkey – Get free email alerts whenever a keyword appears in Twitter Lists of your choice. Good monitoring tool…
• 20 Essential Gmail Tips You Probably Don’t Use (but Should!) – Awesome round-up of tips.
• Ten trends that will matter to every company in 2010 – Neville sums it all up!