Adam Sherk

OCTOBER 29, 2009

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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Adam Sherk

AUGUST 16, 2010

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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Adam Sherk

OCTOBER 20, 2009

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.

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Adam Sherk

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

But that’s no longer a significant opportunity, so blog tags are now more about on-site usability; directing users to additional content on a particular topic or allowing them to subscribe to topic-specific RSS feeds. To be clear, I’m not saying that blog tags have no SEO purpose or value.

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Adam Sherk

AUGUST 4, 2010

I couldn’t find them through Digg’s internal search either; if I’ve missed one or there are other major news site profiles that you are aware of please let me know. Some additional notes: 1) It is not clear yet how well using an RSS feed to automatically submit articles is working. I think you’ve done a great analysis, Adam.

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Adam Sherk

APRIL 5, 2010

Interestingly, newspaper readership at the Globe is also down 12% as their readers go online. That too is a migration – not a decline as a whole! BTW, I’m not saying seeing a Facebook feed and watching an entire game broadcast on TV are equal impressions. Clearly they are not. Surely the Red Sox injuries have played a role, of course.

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Adam Sherk

AUGUST 7, 2009

With this in mind, it is beneficial for news and content sites to take a diversified approach to Twitter, offering a range options for users to subscribe to. While the variations are limitless, the main opportunities include: Content Broadcasting – this is essentially RSS feeds on Twitter, used for simply pushing out links to new content.

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Adam Sherk

MAY 1, 2009

I know in some cases it’s because they are featured as “suggested users” to people who sign up for a new Twitter account. But it seems like there are much better ways to monitor daily news feeds. Just out of curiosity I thought I’d check how many users some of these news sites are following back from their main accounts.

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Adam Sherk

MAY 1, 2009

I know in some cases it’s because they are featured as “suggested users” to people who sign up for a new Twitter account. But it seems like there are much better ways to monitor daily news feeds. Just out of curiosity I thought I’d check how many users some of these news sites are following back from their main accounts.

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Adam Sherk

MARCH 24, 2010

I follow a number of different news sites (and other companies) on Twitter, Facebook and other social media, and each of those accounts is linked on my Google Profile. I’m also subscribed to 368 feeds in Google Reader including a wide range of blogs and news sites.

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Adam Sherk

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

Thom Mitchell February 5, 2010 at 7:03 pm Another issue to consider is IP/content ownership and branding. As the journalist builds the brand using social media – who owns the twitter name/wordpress blog/Flickr feed/etc, and all of the content on each of those outlets?

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