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Traffic Rises 350% Year-Over-Year For Social Publisher BuzzFeed

The Realtime Report

Calling itself “the social news and entertainment company,” BuzzFeed demonstrated last month that whatever the publisher’s formula may be, it’s working. A recent shift in Facebook’s algorithm has helped drive traffic to major publishers , and BuzzFeed is seeing some serious benefits from the change.

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Citizen Journalism: Who is a Journalist Today?

Proactive Report

Citizen journalism doesn’t only apply to major political events or disasters. Citizen journalism is one of the hottest buzzwords in the news business right now. Many newsrooms are implementing some sort of citizen-journalism initiative. Almost every news release they crafted specifically for these sites was published.

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Best Internet Marketing Posts of 2009

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

10 Ways to Be a Great Social Media User (Search Engine Journal): Vince Blackham writes a great post on Search Engine Journal about how to be a great social media user, with tips such as contributing, diversifying your efforts, being real, being meaningful, and more. No, it’s not about the tools!)

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7 Deadly Blog Writing Sins

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Reply Frank Lee July 18, 2010 at 2:42 pm I use a journal to drop down the writing ideas that pop up in my mind during the days. concept I find so easy to forget to test for when I get enthusiastic to publish each week. My test on that is to re-read it back later or even the next day before I publish. Humility and the K.I.S.S

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Super list of 50 social media links - Koka Sexton dot Com

Koka Sexton

blog with FeedBurner Social Media Release Criticism: Nine Points to Consider Social Media – Digg, MySpace,YouTube – Web 2.0 I just published on Social Influence Marketing which might make interesting reading too (if I may add myself!)[link] Mihaela Lica’s last blog post.

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Paywall for News.com and Online Community Social Media

Laurel Papworth

No journalists, except a journalists that now work in social media and a few bloggers now paid to bring their audiences and expert knowledge to journalism (blogournalists?) e.g. my partner Gary Hayes being published in Wired and The Guardian. called journalism the fourth estate. We are dominated by Journalism. ”.

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Blogging: Social Media is Not Only About Social Media Sites

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Well, for one, social media users — that is, users on social news sites such as Digg, Mixx, Reddit — are not particularly enthusiastic about the proliferation of marketers in their community. This is a huge challenge for someone who wants to sell their product using social media.

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