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

Adam Sherk

Releases are posted on their press release page (and in its RSS feed) and tweeted via @muckrack , which currently has 5k+ followers. Based on their press release page and RSS feed, since the service launched in late July they’ve distributed 51 press releases, a small number being their own.

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The Best Free (or Cheap) Tools for Blogger and Influencer Outreach

Adam Sherk

You can also use Google+ Ripples to examine shares and comments for a specific URL or Google+ post and see how it spread. The tool indexes millions of RSS feeds and a Feed Authority score is applied to each. Please let me know in the comments and I’ll expand the list as appropriate. Pinterest Tools. Fresh Web Explorer.

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Facebook Pages: Which News Sites Get the Most Engagement?

Adam Sherk

Some news sites are supplementing content links with direct questions and comments to users, but this does not appear to be happening in any significant volume. To judge user engagement and activity, I also calculated the average number of “likes” and comments that the last 10 updates/links to each page received. NPR 489,413 513.5

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A Closer Look at Fan Engagement on the Fox News Facebook Page

Adam Sherk

After reviewing several days’ worth of activity, I have to say that nearly anything Fox News posts to its page ends up getting a decent amount of likes and comments from fans. Even more mundane news items still manage to spark a round of commenting. Sitemap | RSS | © 2009-present AdamSherk.com Using Thesis Wordpress Theme.

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News Sites on the New Digg: Who is Active, Who is Gaining Followers?

Adam Sherk

Here is the reported data on 30 media profiles, ranked by number of followers (as of today): Profile Followers Following Diggs by Publisher Comments by Publisher 1 The New York Times 10,225 4 65 1 2 The Wall Street Journal 9,546 15 281 1 3 BBC News 9,222 0 5,423 0 4 Time 7,842 964 6,289 29 5 Telegraph.co.uk

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Which News Sites Get the Most Social Media Engagement?

Adam Sherk

PostRank counts “engagement events” which it defines as individual activities such as a tweet, like, comment, digg, RSS view, etc. 8 comments… read them below or add one } Jeff Domansky October 6, 2010 at 5:14 pm Adam, great analysis! Sitemap | RSS | © 2009-present AdamSherk.com Using Thesis Wordpress Theme.

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Newsweek on Tumblr: Good Effort, Needs More Engagement

Adam Sherk

In looking through the site though one thing stands out – nearly every item has no comments or reactions: That seems odd, but it’s not just a holiday season slowdown. I went back several months and it’s not easy to find items that have gotten comments. Sitemap | RSS | © 2009-present AdamSherk.com Using Thesis Wordpress Theme.

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