Adam Sherk

DECEMBER 18, 2012

Here are my top 10 posts of 2012 by pageviews: The Best Free Tools for Twitter Analytics. 5 Ways that Social Media Impacts SEO. The Fastest and Slowest News Sites in 2012. Media Relations Gone Wrong: How Not to Pitch a Journalist (Video). 5 Good Ideas for News Media Facebook Pages. Have a great 2013.

Press Release 119

Press Release SEO Digg Sports 119

Adam Sherk

MARCH 19, 2012

The Pew Research Center’s The State of the News Media 2012 is out and the section on What Facebook and Twitter Mean for News makes for an interesting read. The figures on where users get their news links from is already being covered as a sign that Facebook and Twitter may not be as strong of a news source as previously thought.

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News Organization Twitter Facebook 135

Adam Sherk

DECEMBER 21, 2011

Nevertheless, here are my top 10 posts of 2011 by pageviews: Which NBA Teams Have Seen the Most Growth on Twitter and Facebook? I used to do team comparison posts with some frequency but I scaled back, mainly because the figures become outdated so quickly (and since social media is more than a numbers game). Original idea!

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SEO Publishing Press Release Social Media 119

Adam Sherk

JANUARY 23, 2013

The news of layoffs at StumbleUpon reminded me that in compiling some year-end social media referral data I’d noticed that a number of sites had experienced declines in StumbleUpon traffic. Declines in StumbleUpon Traffic: 2012 vs. 2011. One thing to point out is that not every site experienced a decline in 2012.

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StumbleUpon Sites Content Survey 172

Adam Sherk

APRIL 10, 2012

With a new baseball season underway I thought I’d check in on the 30 MLB teams on Twitter and Facebook. Since it has been two years since I did The Most Popular MLB Teams on Twitter and Facebook I thought it would be interesting to revisit this and capture the growth rate for all the teams. MLB Teams on Twitter. 4/5/10 Two-Year.

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Team Twitter Facebook Comparison 152

Adam Sherk

OCTOBER 24, 2012

To be fair I do write about PR and I occasionally cover sports and social media, so it’s not completely off base. Meister completed his 15th consecutive season with the Globetrotters in 2012, leading the team’s overall domestic and international publicity efforts. billion media impressions in 2012.

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Press Release Sports Team Statistics 108

Adam Sherk

JANUARY 9, 2013

As of today Bloomberg News and The Telegraph have not made a new post since July 2012, and the most recent post on the CBS News page is dated September 2012. CNN International, Anderson Cooper 360, The New Yorker and CNBC are not included in the growth rate tables because they were not part of the 2012 comparison.

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News Sites Engagement Google 245