Adam Sherk

JANUARY 21, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Journalist Social Media Usage Increases, Concerns About Reliability of Information by Adam Sherk on January 21, 2010 Yesterday Cision released the results of their Social Media and Online Usage Study, a survey of social media usage by print and Web journalists.

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Adam Sherk

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Facebook Pages: Which News Sites Get the Most Engagement? by Adam Sherk on September 17, 2009 Now that the improved Facebook Pages have been around for a while I wanted to check the level of engagement that major news sites are achieving with them.

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Adam Sherk

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

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. 2) Try a Guest Editor.

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Adam Sherk

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

Despite this, fans are passionately supporting and discussing their teams through a range of social media outlets, in particular Twitter and Facebook. In the table below the 32 NFL teams are ranked by the total number of followers/fans on their official Twitter accounts and Facebook pages.

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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? Beyond Facebook Insights: Useful Facebook Analytics Tools. Is Using Facebook Comments Good for Publishers? The post on Facebook analytics tools did well considering I just published it last week.

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Adam Sherk

DECEMBER 17, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Search Marketing Dwarfs Social Media in Interactive Marketing Budgets by Adam Sherk on December 17, 2009 This week both Brian Solis and SEOMoz made reference to a recent Forrester report forecasting US interactive marketing budgets for the next five years.

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Adam Sherk

APRIL 5, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk The Most Popular MLB Teams on Twitter and Facebook by Adam Sherk on April 5, 2010 A new baseball season is underway and we are in that wonderfully brief period when fans all over the country still believe this could actually be the year for their team.

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Adam Sherk

MAY 4, 2010

Ok fans could care less about that, but for myself and some sports and social media marketers out there it’s an interesting question. Ok fans could care less about that, but for myself and some sports and social media marketers out there it’s an interesting question. But Does it Violate Facebook Guidelines? {

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Adam Sherk

OCTOBER 23, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Social Media Visitors More Loyal But Still a Very Small Percentage of Site Traffic by Adam Sherk on October 23, 2009 Yesterday posts from eMarketer and Marketing Pilgrim called my attention to some interesting social media statistics put out by advertising network Chitika.

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Adam Sherk

JANUARY 12, 2010

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?

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Adam Sherk

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

The usual caveats: Social media isn’t a popularity contest and reach does not equal influence, engagement or action These figures will quickly be out-of-date (they probably were before I could hit the “publish” button) But those things aside, it is interesting to take a snapshot at various times for the purposes of comparison.

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Adam Sherk

APRIL 20, 2011

But how is the organization itself doing with social media today? Based on a current promotion on the Grateful Dead Facebook page I’d say they’re doing great. It’s not every day you hear a rip-roaring Truckin’ suddenly jump out of a Facebook page. News Sites Not Making Much Use of Static FBML on Facebook Pages.

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Adam Sherk

JUNE 9, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk News Sites Not Making Much Use of Static FBML on Facebook Pages by Adam Sherk on June 9, 2010 Between privacy issues, a sweaty CEO and technical problems with its “Like&# buttons Facebook is having a rough time lately. The short answer?

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Adam Sherk

DECEMBER 20, 2010

The Most Popular MLB Teams on Twitter and Facebook. The Most Popular NBA Teams on Twitter and Facebook. The Most Popular NFL Teams on Twitter and Facebook: 2010 Season. Survey: Twitter Less than 1% of Traffic to Newspapers and Magazines; Facebook 1%. An Early Look at Facebook Open Graph Protocol Integration on News Sites.

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Adam Sherk

APRIL 14, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Corporate Social Media Marketing is about Two-Way Communication by Adam Sherk on April 14, 2009 It’s a simple concept, but one that many companies are still struggling with in terms of practical implementation.

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Adam Sherk

AUGUST 16, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk JVC Facebook Page Sweepstakes a Big Success. But Does it Violate Facebook Guidelines? But does it violate Facebook’s promotions guidelines? Which part of the Facebook guidelines JVC USA is violating was not specified.

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Adam Sherk

OCTOBER 15, 2010

What gets more traction for publishers: content shared on Facebook or Twitter? According to the Social Media Sharing Trends 2010 report from SocialTwist, Facebook dominates content sharing among social media sites but links shared on Twitter have a much higher click-through rate. clicks vs. only 2.87

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Adam Sherk

APRIL 26, 2010

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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Adam Sherk

AUGUST 28, 2012

Lately I’ve been noticing a lot of Facebook posts in my news feed with a specific request to “LIKE” the post. But as a user I find it annoying to frequently see posts in my Facebook news feed that directly ask, cajole or downright beg me to “LIKE” it. The Most Popular MLB Teams on Twitter and Facebook.

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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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Adam Sherk

MAY 26, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Where Do You Want Your Social Media Press Releases to Live? The other stuff included in the release–links to us on Twitter and Facebook–those things, too, live off our site and therefore SEO implications aren’t really a factor.

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Adam Sherk

JANUARY 4, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk My Top 10 Posts of 2009 on News Media, SEO and Social Media by Adam Sherk on January 4, 2010 I was going to post this last week but then opted wisely for letting myself enjoy a holiday break. What Horrible Things Did Time Magazine Do in 1964?

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Adam Sherk

JANUARY 19, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Alicia Keys Facebook Page: I’d Sign Up if She Asked Me All Cool by Adam Sherk on January 19, 2010 Want to use your Facebook Page to build out your mailing list? The key takeaway: the more ways you can bring your Facebook Pages to life, the better.

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Adam Sherk

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

But will it ever catch up with Facebook? That’s a much tougher road, because Facebook has done a great job of gaining adoption across a wide range of demographics. Facebook itself is making a push to get users to create personalized news channels that benefit both users and news sites.

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Adam Sherk

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Based on first impressions, I have to say I like The Washington Post’s Social Reader on Facebook. Related posts: More Content Shared on Facebook but Twitter Click-through Rate Much Higher. Google Social Search: Are You in Your Target Audiences’ Social Circles?

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Adam Sherk

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

So I thought I’d take a closer look at what Fox News is doing on its Facebook Page , as well as some engagement examples. NBA Playoff Teams Ranked by Facebook Page Engagement JVC Facebook Page Sweepstakes a Big Success. But Does it Violate Facebook Guidelines? Which News Sites Have the Most Valuable Facebook Pages?

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Adam Sherk

MAY 18, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Newsweek’s Tim Geithner Interview Live on Facebook: Don’t Forget to Link to the Video Afterwards by Adam Sherk on May 18, 2009 Today Newsweek offered live streaming of Jon Meacham’s interview with Treasury Security Tim Geithner on its Facebook page.

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Adam Sherk

MAY 18, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Newsweek’s Tim Geithner Interview Live on Facebook: Don’t Forget to Link to the Video Afterwards by Adam Sherk on May 18, 2009 Today Newsweek offered live streaming of Jon Meacham’s interview with Treasury Security Tim Geithner on its Facebook page.

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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 Facebook. two years ago.

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Adam Sherk

MAY 29, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Your Mom’s Coming to Facebook, But She May Not Stick Around by Adam Sherk on May 29, 2009 Inside Facebook published some new statistics this week on Facebook’s US audience growth over the last 60 days. But Does it Violate Facebook Guidelines?

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Adam Sherk

MARCH 7, 2011

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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Adam Sherk

OCTOBER 26, 2011

I was talking with John Shehata from ABC News yesterday about Facebook, and he brought up an interesting question. What’s a better approach for journalists, creating official Facebook Pages or enabling the subscribe button on their regular profiles? Facebook is certainly encouraging the use of the new subscribe button.

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Adam Sherk

JANUARY 27, 2011

Last year I did a couple of posts on the reach and engagement of NBA teams on Twitter and Facebook. As for Facebook, here are the most popular official team pages: Facebook likes. January 2011 Facebook likes. Here are the NBA team pages ranked by percentage increase since last year: Facebook likes.

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Adam Sherk

JUNE 16, 2011

That’s interesting in and of itself, as marketers sometimes (over) generalize that men prefer Twitter while Facebook is more appealing to women. Related posts: Pew Research News Survey: Findings on Search Engines, Social Networks and Twitter. Journalist Social Media Usage Increases, Concerns About Reliability of Information.

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Adam Sherk

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

Last year after winning my Social Media Super Bowl the New Orleans Saints went on to win the actual game. Who knows, but I like looking at sports and social media signals and the Super Bowl offers a good analogy for comparing teams. Related posts: Social Media Super Bowl: Which Team Has More Reach?

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Adam Sherk

JUNE 15, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk News Sites on Twitter: Who is Making the Most Impact? by Adam Sherk on June 15, 2010 I have done several posts on news organizations and Facebook recently so I thought it was time to switch things up and look at Twitter again.

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Adam Sherk

MAY 15, 2012

The Internet and social media have certainly made it easier to conduct media relations in a more efficient and less intrusive way. And while the phone is still the best option in some situations, email and social media have made it much easier to interact with the media in ways that are better for all.

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