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Friday Roundup: Wavii Launches iPhone App, Pinerly Becomes Reachli, Meograph Gets More Updates

Lauren Rabaino — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 06:00:04 +0000

It’s about time we catch up with some tools we’ve written about in the past as the companies continue to grow and change. Here are a few recent highlights.

Wavii’s iPhone app

Remember Wavii? It’s the instant news feed for any topic, letting you follow issues and people from news sources around the world. Newsroom use cases include reporters on a beat or a homepage producer wanted to stay up-to-date on the latest trending news. The company has just debuted its newest 2.0 app for iOS devices.

From Wavii’s announcement, new features of the app:

Smoother navigation, commenting and social sharing: The new app has a streamlined look and feel, it also includes a new social bar that lets you see what stories your friends have interacted with and enables you to easily share your thoughts too. You can also quickly share stories via email, or over to Facebook and Twitter.
More updates for any topic: A wider range of the world’s events as short, simple status updates in your newsfeed.
Quick and easy discovery of new topics to follow: Provides quick access to category feeds like “Popular,” “Tech,” and “Entertainment”, making it easier to discover new and interesting topics that you can follow to personalize your experience.
More ways to get started: You can now use Twitter or an email address to sign up, in addition to Facebook.

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Roundup: WaPo’s digital revenue drops; Globe’s online audience grows; NYT lays off employees

Lauren Rabaino — Fri, 04 May 2012 15:09:43 +0000

Consider this today’s State of the Newspaper roundup as a few interesting numbers and tidbits about The Washington Post, The Boston Globe and The New York Times are making the rounds.

WaPo’s digital revenue declined in Q1

According to PaidContent, The Washington Post newspaper division — which includes WaPo and Slate — lost $22.6 million for the first quarter. In the same quarter last year, they lost $12.8 million. Of that loss for 2012, here’s the breakdown for digital loss:

Digital revenue slipped 7 percent
online display ad revenue dropped 11 percent year over year
Online classified ad revenue was down 1 percent continued…

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Social Media Roundup: Reaching New Audiences, Creating Social Content and More

Ben LaMothe — Fri, 04 May 2012 11:42:30 +0000

Every Friday I post links to a few of the blog posts that I read during the week that I found interesting and insightful.

Included in this week’s round-up is discussion about researching how to reach new audiences; why Per Active Member is an important metric; and best practice for socially-created content.

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Social Media Roundup: The Future of Social, Forum Strategy and More

Ben LaMothe — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 14:13:09 +0000

Every Friday I post links to a few of the blog posts that I read during the week that I found interesting and insightful.

Included in this week’s round-up is discussion about the shift to the concept of social business; 12 thoughts about the future of social media; the pros and cons of having a strategy for forums; and remaining optimistic about ROI.

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Social Media Roundup: Advocacy, Corporate Social Strategists, and Social Media Campaigns

Ben LaMothe — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 13:39:30 +0000

Every Friday I post links to a few of the blog posts that I read during the week that I found interesting and insightful.

Included in this week’s round-up is discussion about the shift from influence to advocacy in the development of online communities; the changing future of today’s corporate social media strategists; and best practice for growing an online community through a series of campaigns.

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Social Media Roundup: The Connected Customer, Social Media Crisis Comms, Timeline for Power Users, and more

Ben LaMothe — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 15:09:11 +0000

Every Friday I post links to a few of the blog posts that I read during the week that I found interesting and insightful.

Included in this week’s round-up is discussion about the connected customer and what that means for brands and media; why it’s good to use social media as part of crisis communications; Timeline tips for power users; how Facebook “likes” are similar to e-mail opt-in; and why you should pay social media interns.

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Social Media Roundup: Social Media Insights, Successful Social Media Promotions and More

Ben LaMothe — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 11:48:23 +0000

Every Friday I post links to a few of the blog posts that I read during the week that I found interesting and insightful.

Included in this week’s round-up is discussion about actionable social media insights; the maturing of community management; advice for making a successful social media promotion; and culture change as a barrier to social media adoption.

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Social Media Roundup: Lies about social media ROI, investing in your community and more

Ben LaMothe — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 13:57:48 +0000

Every Friday I post links to a few of the blog posts that I read during the week that I found interesting and insightful.

Included in this week’s round-up is discussion about why you should invest in your community; existing passion in online communities; big lies of social media ROI; and how to start building an online community.

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Social Media Roundup: Reinforcing Content, Being a First Responder, Negative Postings and More

Ben LaMothe — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 15:24:37 +0000

Every Friday I post links to a few of the blog posts that I read during the week that I found interesting and insightful.

Included in this week’s round-up is discussion about how to reinforce your social media content; best practice for responding to negative postings on social media sites; why atmosphere matters when building an online community; and blogging’s revival.

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Social Media Roundup: Facebook Timeline, Geography in Social Media, Social Media Assessments and Community Management Risk

Ben LaMothe — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 13:25:34 +0000

Every Friday I post links to a few of the blog posts that I read during the week that I found interesting and insightful.

Included in this week’s round-up is discussion about ways businesses can make effective use of the new Facebook Timeline; whether geography should play a role in social media strategy; how to know when it’s time for a social media assessment; and the risks involved with not having community management.

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Social Media Roundup: Communities of Practice, Content Strategy, Localism and Social Media Churn Rate

Ben LaMothe — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 14:09:52 +0000

Every Friday I post links to a few of the blog posts that I read during the week that I found interesting and insightful.

Included in this week’s round-up is discussion about why communities of practices are important; 4 focuses of content strategy; why local is becoming more important; and why you should monitor social media churn rate.

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Social Media Blog Round-Up: User Participation, Top Down Community Planning, Social CRM and Enterprise Social Networking

Ben LaMothe — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 13:17:38 +0000

Every Friday I post links to a few of the blog posts that I read during the week that I found interesting and insightful.

Included in this week’s round-up is discussion about increasing user participation by accentuating impact; the problem with top-down community planning; the shift away from social CRM to social business; and why relationship building matters in enterprise social networking.

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Social Media & Online Community Posts From Around The Web

Ben LaMothe — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 14:59:46 +0000

Every Friday I post links to a few of the blog posts that I read during the week that I found interesting and insightful.

Included in this week’s round-up is discussion about the secret to successful content strategy; why amateurs tend to build better communities than professionals; about the ‘myth’ of engagement; and why you must build engagement in an online community in order to grow it.

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10 Ways The New York Times Tells Stories Through Reader Content

Lauren Rabaino — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:52:55 +0000

When looking for inspiration for your own reader-submissions projects, The New York Times’ collection of storytelling tools is a good place to start because they do it so well. The following examples are ways that The Times have creatively gathered and displayed information submitted by people on the Internet to tell a story. The common thread amongst all of the examples below are that they limit readers to a very specific and thought-provoking theme. continued…

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Social Media & Online Community Posts From Around The Web

Ben LaMothe — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 11:34:33 +0000

Every Friday I post links to a few of the blog posts that I read during the week that I found interesting and insightful.

Included in this week’s round-up is discussion about the need for social architecture; how to turn your business into a community building platform; why it’s important to build your base so you can build momentum; and what to do when private information leaks out of a private forum.

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