Adam Sherk

JANUARY 7, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Hearst Skiff Reader Looks Cool by Adam Sherk on January 7, 2010 Hearst’s Skiff Reader is being unveiled at CES this week. My professional, analytical opinion is it looks pretty darn good.

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Adam Sherk

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk AOL Newsroom: A Model for the Future or Shades of 2001? Are you sure you want to write that article, Dave? Is this a good thing? Done right, I say absolutely.

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Adam Sherk

AUGUST 25, 2009

Bolster your best stuff – Dig into your analytics data and determine which sections and content types tend to perform best in summer. It’s not easy to chase search trends as there is a danger of always ending up one step behind.

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Engineering Hitwise Health Care Press Release 102

Adam Sherk

OCTOBER 6, 2010

So which news sites are getting the most out of their social media efforts? That’s not an easy question to answer without having access to each site’s analytics data and knowing their goals and objectives. But it is possible to make some basic comparisons using data from some of the free tools that are available.

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Adam Sherk

MARCH 2, 2010

Nathan Joynt March 2, 2010 at 1:04 pm I wonder if these numbers correspond to the growth rate of these social networks. In this case, you must ignore the perceived tinyness of 1% and recognize it as being a huge number. Obviously FB and Twitter users continue to grow. Is Digg losing steam?

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Adam Sherk

MAY 17, 2010

Only the news organizations themselves can fully answer that question; their own analytics data combined with internal estimates of the value of fans and various actions will paint the clearest picture. But how much are these pages really worth to them, and which news sites are getting the most value for their efforts?

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Laurel Papworth

OCTOBER 22, 2011

From Mumbrella : But to recap, it’s a “freemium” model – enough free content to hang on to advertising revenue; with the more exclusive, analytical and opinion stuff likely to be behind the wall. Or putting out a Press Release on How Press Releases Are No Longer Effective. The New Fourth Estate is Social Media.

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