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Is Using Facebook Comments Good for Publishers?

Adam Sherk

There were some interesting posts over the weekend from Steve Cheney and Robert Scoble on whether utilizing Facebook Comments kills or in fact increases user authenticity within on-site commenting. So I’d rather not put that activity into my Facebook news feed. Facebook Pages: Which News Sites Get the Most Engagement?

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5 Good Ideas for News Media Facebook Pages

Adam Sherk

What are news organizations doing to increase user activity and engagement on their Facebook pages? However in this post I want to focus primarily on tactics that are focused on the Facebook page itself. However in this post I want to focus primarily on tactics that are focused on the Facebook page itself.

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An Early Look at Facebook Open Graph Protocol Integration on News.

Adam Sherk

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk An Early Look at Facebook Open Graph Protocol Integration on News Sites by Adam Sherk on April 26, 2010 There has been a lot of news and reaction around Facebook’s new additions to the Facebook Platform: Social Plugins, the Open Graph protocol and the Graph API.

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The Most Popular NBA Teams on Twitter and Facebook

Adam Sherk

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk The Most Popular NBA Teams on Twitter and Facebook by Adam Sherk on January 12, 2010 NBA players, like many professional athletes, have taken social media by storm, but what about their teams? So what should NBA teams be doing on Twitter and Facebook?

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8 Social Media Questions Publishers Should Be Asking Themselves

Adam Sherk

How much Facebook integration is too much? A high degree of Facebook integration can feel a bit like being assimilated into the Borg, but the reality is there is a lot of audience across all demographics there so experimentation is certainly worthwhile. but monitoring behavior and activity often proves valuable.

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NBC Targets Local Markets on the New Digg

Adam Sherk

Since the new Digg is so, well, new, we’re still figuring out the best way to stay active. A lot of the quirky stories that show up in Digg’s “Offbeat&# section are really local news items when you think about it, and we felt that a lot of our content fit into what the Digg community already finds interesting.

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A Look at Muck Rack's Twitter Press Release Service, 51 Releases Later

Adam Sherk

To see how Muck Rack stacks up against the competition I checked the volume of activity on some other Twitter press release services, but there aren’t a lot of apples-to-apples comparisons to be made. The answer lies in how much additional value the services can provide in terms of exposure and activity.