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News Sites Not Making Much Use of Static FBML on Facebook Pages

Adam Sherk

News sites have a big advantage over other companies on Facebook because they regularly produce breaking news and other forms of quality content that can be featured on their pages and placed in user news feeds. So perhaps they have less of a need to add extra bells and whistles. What Horrible Things Did Time Magazine Do in 1964?

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Google Social Search: Are You in Your Target Audiences' Social.

Adam Sherk

A limited number of listings will appear at the bottom of the main search result pages, or users can drill down to see more extensive listings: Currently a social circle is determined by the social media accounts linked from a user’s Google Profile , the feeds they subscribe to in Google Reader and their Google chat and Gmail contacts.

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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. Q: Is all content from the sites being automatically submitted or just select stories? Lauren: As of now, the content from the sites is automatically submitted using a feed from our front page. But how have users responded so far?

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JVC Facebook Page Sweepstakes a Big Success. But Does it Violate.

Adam Sherk

Some marketers have felt that the guidelines are too limiting or controlling, but among other things Facebook is trying to prevent significant manipulation of the news feed. Of course everyone tries to facilitate engagement on their Facebook Pages and increase exposure in users’ news feeds; that’s a basic component of Facebook marketing.

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Facebook Pages: Which News Sites Get the Most Engagement?

Adam Sherk

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. in the sidebars and subpages. What Horrible Things Did Time Magazine Do in 1964?

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Yahoo Adds Enhanced News Results to searchmonkey

Adam Sherk

For news sites, the publication date and a photo can be added to Yahoo search results for articles and opinion pieces, as shown in this example: To take advantage of the enhanced news results, publishers can either use RDFa markup to embed the news data in their content, or use a NewsML feed to send the data privately to Yahoo.

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

Adam Sherk

Muck Rack charges $1 per character to send out a 140 character press release, with a minimum fee of $50. Releases are posted on their press release page (and in its RSS feed) and tweeted via @muckrack , which currently has 5k+ followers. That’s an average of about 4 press releases per week, so there’s not a lot of volume yet.