social media

5 great tools to add interactivity to news sites

by John Einar Sandvand on March 29, 2009 · 2 comments

News sites need to communicate with their readers. Here are 5 great tools that will help you cover the news in a much more dynamic way. All of them have one thing in common: They are extremely easy to implement – even if you have no skills in programming.

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211 million out of Europe’s 283 million web users visited a social network site in December, according to new numbers from Comscore.

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Twitter as a tool for journalism

by John Einar Sandvand on February 28, 2009 · 7 comments

Recently I gave a presentation for a group of Norwegian news reporters about how Twitter can be used as a tool for journalism. I have now translated it – and here is the English version:

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How journalists can use Twitter

by John Einar Sandvand on January 30, 2009 · 5 comments

Twitter is much more than sending status messages. Here are four smart ways journalists and editors can use it in their work.

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Facebook nearly twice as big as MySpace

by John Einar Sandvand on January 27, 2009 · 1 comment

More than one in five web users worldwide visited the social network Facebook in December.

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5 great Twitter tools for journalists

by John Einar Sandvand on January 21, 2009 · 9 comments

Every day news stories break on Twitter. Here are some of the tools journalists can use to make Twitter work for them.

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5 social media trends in 2009

by John Einar Sandvand on January 20, 2009 · 7 comments

Here are some of the social media trends that are taking place in 2009. Illustration: Matt Hamm

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Record Facebook traffic on Christmas Eve

by John Einar Sandvand on January 5, 2009 · 0 comments

Image via CrunchBase Never before has a so high percentage of the web users spent time on Facebook and other social networks as on Christmas Eve.

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Newspapers finally embracing web 2.0

by John Einar Sandvand on December 18, 2008 · 0 comments

Image via Wikipedia U.S. newspapers are finally embracing Web 2.0 in their web operations, according to a major survey. But is it too late?

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10 new roles for journalists

by John Einar Sandvand on December 14, 2008 · 12 comments

New roles will be necessary in editorial organizations. Here are 10 of them, provided by the Swedish media blog Mindpark.

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