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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. Another online news outlet that is climbing up the ranks fast is the Huffington Post.

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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. Referrals from Twitter, Facebook and Google hit record highs; Facebook is easily in the lead, but referral traffic from Twitter grew 180% in the last year.

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10 Social Media Tools To Help With Your Crowdsourcing Efforts

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Google Docs If you want to share and collaborate in the creation of documents, spreadsheets, and presentations, then Google Docs is the best way to go. Google Wave Google Wave still has a few defects, but it can be a strong collaboration tool if Google resolves them. Evernote allows you to clip anything (e.g.

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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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How Young is Too Young?

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

I remember how hard my 4th grade teacher used to push us, trying everything she could think of to get her students to write in our journals and communicate regularly through agenda books. She’s “blogging&# in an offline, old fashioned, paper journal right now. I still elected to use a digital medium, and why not?

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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 Google and the Lilliputians ¬ Shiv Singh #266 February 29th, 2008 at 11:36 pm What an excellent list. Mihaela Lica’s last blog post. It certainly gives me a lot to read this weekend.

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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. 12484 SUBSCRIBERS FOLLOWERS Lijit Search Read more about The New Community Rules Get Techipedia on your iPhone or iPod touch! I try to teach or share a meaningful message in each of my posts.

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